Author Archives: Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer
Benromach Contrasts: Peat Smoke 2012-2021, First-Fill Sherry Hogsheads, 46%
Benromach Contrasts is a series of whiskies from the awesome Speyside distillery that showcases a specific element of whisky making, which they then have changed from their regular releases. To put things in contrast, so to say. So far there … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, Benromach, Contrasts, Forres, Gordon & MacPhail, Sherry Cask, Speyside
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Caol Ila 11, 2010-2022, First Fill Bourbon Barrel 321701, 56.9% – Archives
Apart from starting to look like the Archives fanboy channel over here, I do really enjoy almost everything they put out. I say almost, because I like some whiskies better than others, but I have to admit that nothing ‘bad’ … Continue reading
Glenrothes 36, 1986-2022, Bourbon Hogshead 2125, 45.6% – Wu-Dram Clan
Our neighbours to the east keep at it with another rather spectacular release. This time it’s a Glenrothes from the mid-eighties. You don’t get to try whisky this old all that often anymore, so when a sample dropped in the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1986, Bourbon Cask, Duckhammers Rare & Fine, Glenrothes, Speyside, Wu-Dram Clan
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Speyside Region 21, 1998-2020, Hogshead 18505, 54% – Archives
Yet another archives bottling! Not overly surprising with this being one of my favorite bottlers at the moment. They seem to be hitting the sweet spot between price and quality quite often! Surprisingly, I don’t really know what distillery this … Continue reading
Glenmorangie Allta, Private Edition, 51.2%
Back when Private Editions from Glenmorangie were still a thing, they occasionally did something interesting with the series. Half of their ‘innovative’ bottlings were just using a different wine cask or a specific sherry cask. Nothing new under the sun … Continue reading
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Tagged Bourbon Cask, Glenmorangie, Highlands, Private Edition, Tain, Wild yeast
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Hazelburn 21, 2022 release, 46%
Hazelburn has come of age. The oldest version out there seems to be 22 years old by now, but this one, released last year, must have been the oldest back then. I feel like an old fart when I say … Continue reading
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Tagged Bourbon Cask, Campbeltown, Hazelburn, Sherry Cask, Springbank
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Jura 1997-2011, 45% – Samaroli Coilltean
This mix of three casks was bottled over a decade ago by Samaroli. That’s a legendary whisky bottler from Italy that is widely regarded as having bottled the best whiskies ever several decades ago. I’m not entirely sure how that … Continue reading
Glentauchers 24, 1996-2021, Barrel 22060, 46.8% – Whiskybase
It’s been a while by now, but back in 2021 when there were ‘only’ 180,000 different whiskies on Whiskybase, they released this Glentauchers. There must have been quite a parcel of casks available back then, because it seemed that everyone … Continue reading
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Tagged 1996, Archives, Bourbon Cask, Glentauchers, Speyside, Whiskybase
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Four Armagnacs from Alfred Dubois Lizee, bottled for Jack Tar
Jack Tar, the new-ish bottler of high-end spirits sent a bunch of samples over a while ago. I normally try to get around to samples like this fairly quickly, but in this case I wanted to make it a more … Continue reading
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Tagged 1934, 1963, 1965, 1973, Alfred Dubois Lizee, Armagnac, France, Jack Tar, Veuve Goudoulin
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Bowmore 17, 2002-2019, Bourbon Hogshead, 53.6% – Cadenhead
Over a decade ago I visited quite a lot of whisky tastings at De Whiskykoning in Den Bosch. Even back then, when a 6 to 10 year old Bowmore from around 2000/2002 came out from bottlers like The Ultimate or … Continue reading
Malt Fascination 