Author Archives: Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

Dailuaine is quickly becoming a favourite distillery of mine, for reasons unknown to me. Its not even that all samples of them I’ve tried recently are great, but most of them have some allure to me, like they represent an … Continue reading →

Yesterday the Spring Tasting was organized again by the Whiskykoning in Den Bosch. The spring tasting focuses on whiskies from the Lowlands region and always promises some nice whiskies from closed distilleries, since it is very hard nowadays to fill … Continue reading →

To check another whisky off the list of the 101 whiskies to try before you die, I traded a sample of Bailie Nicol Jarvie with John Derks. BNJ is known as the Glenmorangie blend, since that is the biggest Single … Continue reading →

Yesterday I cycled to an Adelphi tasting in Driehuis, hosted by Richard Blesgraaf of liquor shop Zeewijck, Marcel Bol of WIN and Alex Bruce of Adelphi themselves. I was a bit late since for some reason I am highly unable … Continue reading →

A while ago a game was hosted by Glen Grant on Facebook, in which you could earn points with a group of friends to win a trip to Scotland for four persons. A well respected club member of the Usquebaugh … Continue reading →

Otopoets is a car polish company in Hilversum, ran by the son(s) of Dick de Jong, who is one of my whisky friends. Every year he organizes a BYO tasting there for as many people as possible, all from the … Continue reading →

To close this week that started with a good whisky tasting in which a David Stirk bottling was tasted, I’d like to close of with a somewhat more available bottle. The Exclusive Range is the cheaper variety of his series … Continue reading →

The Exclusive Cask series is a different series by David Stirk in which he finishes whiskies usually in all kinds of odd casks. In this case he used a Gaja Barolo cask which is almost never used for whisky. I … Continue reading →

Another report on a good Exclusive Malt by David Stirk. I had the opportunity to taste some of his great bottlings. I promise I’m not a fanboy, since I think most of the standard range (Exclusive Range) are usually not … Continue reading →