Author Archives: Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer
Inchgower 1982, 29yo, 53.9% – Whiskybroker.co.uk
Sometimes I find a whisky with a certain profile that I find very hard to define, but oh so delicious. It happened with an Inchgower 1982 from Duncan Taylor. It also happened with a 1982 Clynelish I had during the BTC … Continue reading
Yamazaki Limited Edition 2015, 43%
As part of a deal for a bottle I recently sold I could come over the guy who bought it and pick some samples. He’s very focused on Japanese whisky and therefore has some contacts in the land of the … Continue reading
Posted in - Japanese Whisky, Yamazaki
Tagged Japan, Japanese Whisky, Limited Edition, NAS, Yamazaki
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Eylandt Legend, white spirit, 40% – Kampen Distillateurs
Kampen Destillateurs is a small Dutch distillery in the province of Zeeland. They, like Zuidam mainly produce other drinks. In this case that’s mostly liqueurs, vodka and a grappa like product. A couple of years ago (information is sketchy) they released … Continue reading
Posted in - World Whisky, Kampen Destillateurs
Tagged Bruinisse, Dutch whisky, Eylandt Legend, Kampen Destillateurs, New Make, Spirit, Zeeland
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Inchgower 1994-2007, 13yo, 58.9%, The Manager’s Dram
During my last Blog Birthday Bash buddy TT left me a sample of this. Contrary to what usually happens (I’m trying to improve this, it’s going better) it didn’t disappear in my nigh-infinite sample stash but I drank it soon. … Continue reading
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Tagged 1994, Cask Strength, Diageo, Inchgower, Manager's Dram, Speyside
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BenRiach 1976-2010, 33yo, Cask 8795, 53.2%
For some distilleries there are years that are much better than others. For others it’s a couple of years. I think most of the people who read my ramblings know at least some name-year combinations that rock a lot of … Continue reading
Highland Park Odin, 16yo, 55.8%
About a million years ago (on February 19th of 2015, in the time of the mammoth) I did a bottle share of Highland Park’s then newest release in their ‘short series’ stuff. The Odin. The follow up and grand finale … Continue reading
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Tagged Bottle Share, HIghland Park, Islands, Kirkwall, Odin, Orkney, Valhalla Collection
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Spirit of Hven, Seven Stars #3, Phecda, 45%
Montsh ago the nice folks at Spirit of Hven Distillery sent me this sample but, I’m sorry to say, it got lost in the box. It’s only the last couple of weeks that I’m really ramping through my samples with … Continue reading
Posted in - World Whisky, Spirit of Hven
Tagged Free Sample, Hven, Seven Stars, Spirit of Hven, Sweden, World Whisky
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Bourbon Strange by Chuck Cowdery
Chuck Cowdery is a well known, to me, blogger who focuses on American whiskey. He’s very critical of wrong or fake information on labels and in marketing stories and an advocate for proper labeling in general. I can only applaud … Continue reading
Posted in - American Whiskey, - Book
Tagged Book, Book review, Bourbon, Bourbon Strange, Charles K. Cowdery, Chuck Cowdery
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Bunnahabhain 1968-2006, 38yo, 43.1% – Duncan Taylor Peerless
Lately I’ve been tasting some epic drams, if I may say so. There’s been lots of old stuff, and some really, really good less old stuff. Somehow, I’ve not had that many new releases for a while now. Can’t say … Continue reading
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Tagged 1968, Bunnahabhain, Cask Strength, Duncan Taylor, Islay, Peerless
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Caledonian 1965, 40yo, 43.7% – Clan Denny
Clan Denny is currently the main supplier of old grain whisky, I think. There are some other brands (Sovereign comes to mind) but most whiskies from those are either less frequently released or less old. Not that grain whisky necessarily … Continue reading
Posted in - Grain Whisky, Caledonian
Tagged 1965, Caledonian, Clan Denny, Grain Whisky, Hogshead, Hunter Hamilton
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Malt Fascination 