Author Archives: Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer
Glen Scotia 1991-2006, 46.2% – Part Nan Angelen
A Glen Scotia from a Swedish bottler. I got this sample in the mail in an exchange with Anki, who I met at Maltstock last year. She sent me a couple of medical looking tubes with a Swedish themed whisky … Continue reading
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Tagged Campbeltown, Glen Scotia, Part Nan Angelen, Sherry Butt, Vin & Spirit AB
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Wigle Organic Wheat Whiskey, 46%
Apart from the fact that I had never heard of the Wigle distillery before getting this sample, I also never had a whiskey with a honeycombed hickory wood finish. Shai sent me this sample and he got his bottle in … Continue reading
Posted in - American Whiskey, Wigle
Tagged Hickory, Pittsburgh, USA, Wheat Whiskey, Whiskey, Wigle Distllery
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Glentauchers 30yo, 1981, 55.8%, La Maison du Whisky
A 30 year old single cask Glentauchers, who’d have thought! As Gal said on his review of this whisky yesterday, I haven’t had many Glentauchers. A few more than him, mostly because our club bottled a rather filthy one two … Continue reading
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Tagged Glentauchers, La Maison du Whisky, Signatory, Speyside, The Artist, Wine treated butt
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Shai’s go at Whiskyblender ‘Glenbordelyhaz’
Whiskyblender is a website where you can blend your own whisky, according to a number of set parameters. You can choose six whiskies to mix and how much of that stuff you’d like to order (who goes anything less than … Continue reading
Caol Ila 27yo, 1984, 56.1% – Signatory for LMDW
About two weeks ago I got a package in the mail with whisky samples from Israel. Not Israeli whisky, since that doesn’t exist yet, but random samples. It was sent to me by Shai Applbaum, a recently ‘acquired’ Facebook and … Continue reading
Manning up
I’ve been blogging about money quite a few times, if I remember correctly. What I didn’t tell so far is that I’ve been overspending in a rather ridiculous way the last year. It’s not that I cannot pay my bills … Continue reading
Posted in - Blended Whisky, Ardbeg, Ardmore, Bladnoch, Bunnahabhain, Caol Ila, GlenDronach, Glenmorangie, Hazelburn, Kilkerran, Longrow, Springbank
Tagged 100 Proof, Adelphi, Ardbeg, Ardmore, Artisan Cask, Blackadder, Bladnoch, Bladnoch Forum, Bonnie Clyde, Bunnahabhain, Campbeltown, Caol Ila, Distillery Only, Douglas of Drumlanrig, GlenDronach, Glengyle, Glenmorangie, Gordon & MacPhail, Hazelburn, Highlands, Islay, Kilkerran, Longrow, Lowlands, Marsala Wood, Raw Cask, Speyside, Springbank, Springbank Open Day, Springbank Society, Whisky Live Leiden, Work in Progress
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Longmorn 1996-2013, #72315, 57.5% – The Ultimate
It doesn’t happen often that a single cask Longmorn at cask strength comes along, from a fresh sherry cask, at € 60. In other words, that’s ridiculously cheap to be honest. It was available from Dutch bottler The Ultimate, ran … Continue reading
Old Pulteney Pentland Skerries, 46%
The third and last whisky from the Old Pulteney Twitter Tasting is named after the Pentland Skerries lighthouse on the island of Muckle Skerry in the Pentland Firth. An important lighthouse for the crossing from the mainland to Orkney in … Continue reading
Old Pulteney Duncansby Head, 46%
The second bottling from the new Lighthouse Series from the Wick distillery. This lighthouse is situated at farthest point by road from John O’ Groats. The location (according to Google images) is quite spectacular. This bottling is a mix of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alembic Communications, Duncansby Head, Highlands, Lighthouse Series, NAS, Old Pulteney, Twitter Tasting
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