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I was planning on buying a full bottle of the Devil’s Cut while in the USA in September, but, since I was way over the limit anyway, I decided to stick with a miniature. In a little plastic bottle… The … Continue reading →

Or, translated, the car polish tasting. Not that it has anything to do with tasting car polish, but that’s just the name and business of the company that allows us to use their lunch room for a massive annual tasting. … Continue reading →

Chichibu is the youngest of the Japanese distilleries. It was opened in 2008 by Ichiro Akuto who previously ran Hanyu distillery until it closed in 2000. Since they could only call their product whisky in 2011 and wanted some return … Continue reading →

Drinks & Gifts in Krommenie is moving. From one very small corner shop just out of the most walked shopping route to a much more prominent shop about a 100 meters down the street, right across from the ‘yet to … Continue reading →

On January 15th I went to Den Bosch to join the Bottoms Up tasting at De Whiskykoning. This is an annual event on which he puts most of his open bottles on a big table and everyone can have a … Continue reading →

I kept this one for last, as I did in my tasting originally. Mostly because I thought it would overpower the Caol Ila and I had a couple of indie 1998 Laphroaigs during the year, which were all very good. … Continue reading →

Ah, Caol Ila! One of my all time favorites, ever since I bought that Caol Ila 18 about 6 or 7 years ago. I guess for me that’s a bit like it is for Graeme at the Edinburgh Whisky Blog. … Continue reading →

There have been many Tamdhus over the last year, probably because the stocks were a bit downsized around the time the distillery was sold from the Edrington Group to Ian Macleod Distillers. Fortunately for them, fruity whiskies have become quite … Continue reading →

To my knowledge it had been ages since I tasted a Macallan and really enjoyed it. Its one of the great and iconic brands, although I have the feeling they are becoming more ‘average’ the last couple of years. Luckily, … Continue reading →

Glen Keith is one of those distilleries from which you barely hear anything, and then all of a sudden every other bottler has (in this case) a 1970 bottling out. It happened with Ardmore 18, Tamdhu 19 and 20, Lochside … Continue reading →