Category Archives: – World Whisky
Bottoms Up!
Tonight a couple of friends and I are going to try and get my open-bottle-count down somewhat. Since I’ve been trying to do this on my own last year I found that a) it doesn’t work that well, and b) … Continue reading
Posted in - American Whiskey, - Blended Whisky, - Japanese Whisky, - World Whisky, Compass Box, GlenDronach, Glenfarclas, Hazelburn, Jim Beam, Karuizawa, Knob Creek, Lagavulin, Old Potrero, Port Ellen
Tagged 18th Century Style, Anchor Brewery, Blended Whisky, Campbeltown, Compass Box, CV, Douglas Laing, Elements of Islay, GlenDronach, Glenfarclas, Great King Street, Hazelburn, Highlands, Islay, Japan, Jim Beam, Kamiasobi, Karuizawa, Kentucky, Knob Creek, Lagavulin, Noh, Number One Drinks, Old Potrero, Port Ellen, Provenance, Rye, San Francisco, Speciality Drinks Limited, Speyside, Springbank, Straight Bourbon, The Ultimate, The Whisky Exchange, Van Wees
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My favourite whiskies of 2013
I see a lot of blog(ger)s out there have already started their end-of-year lists rating some of their most favourite whiskies of the annum. I’ve been doing the same since I started so I can’t lag behind now, can I? … Continue reading
Posted in - American Whiskey, - Grain Whisky, - Irish Whiskey, - Japanese Whisky, - World Whisky, Balblair, Four Roses, Glen Scotia, GlenDronach, High West, Invergordon, Karuizawa, Lagavulin, Midleton, Springbank, Zuidam
Tagged American Prairie Reserve, Balblair, Bottle Share, Bourbon, Campbeltown, Douglas Laing, Feis Ile, Four Roses, Glen Scotia, Grain Whisky, High West, Highlands, Invergordon, Irish Whiskey, Islay, Japan, Karuizawa, Kentucky, Lagavulin, Limited Edition, Master of Malt, Midleton, Millstone, Netherlands, Number One Drinks, Old Particular, Small Batch, Springbank, That Boutique-y Whisky Company, The Whisky Exchange, USA, Wealth Solutions, Zuidam
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Fary Lochan Efterår Batch 1, 48%
Fary Lochan is a distillery and winery in Farre, Denmark. It’s a tiny distillery in a small town in Jutland, which is more or less the entire mainland of Danmark. It sits smack in the middle of the peninsula and … Continue reading
Posted in - World Whisky, Fary Lochan
Tagged Danish Whisky, Denmark, Farre, Fary Lochan, Steffen Brauner
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Uberach W.L.P 10th edition 2013 46,7% – Distillerie Bertrand
This is truly something rare. The final dram in the French Whisky Twitter Tasting was by far the darkest so a massive sherry bomb was expected. The WLP edition, which stands for Whisky Live Paris is a vatting of left … Continue reading
Secale, Single organic malted rye, 56%, Domaine des Hautes Glaces
Domaine des Hautes Glaces is a small farm distillery in the French Alpes. The name suggests is a winery or someone producing armagnac, but they’ve been producing whisky. Not for long though, since everything is only being released as a … Continue reading
Armorik Double Maturation, 46%, non filtré à froid
With a tag like ‘non filtré à froid’ I just couldn’t get myself to translate it to non-chillfiltered. This is much more pretty if you ask me. The double maturation bit in this whisky’s name is for Breton oak and … Continue reading
Posted in - World Whisky, Armorik
Tagged Armorik, Bretagne, Brittany, Double Maturation, France, Franck Debernardi, French Whisky, La Cave de Cobalt, Twitter Tasting
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Millstone 1999, PX Cask, 14yo, 46%
The very new Millstone PX Cask has just been announced last week by Patrick van Zuidam on Facebook. I was ballsy enough to ask for a sample and he was nice enough to send me some booze! I thought I … Continue reading
Posted in - World Whisky, Zuidam
Tagged Dutch whisky, Millstone, Patrick van Zuidam, PX Cask, Zuidam
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Kavalan Concertmaster, Port Finish, 40%
Kavalan is a whisky which nobody had ever heard of until about three years ago. It then was chosen in a blind tasting to be the most delicious whisky of the bunch. Whether or not that makes any sense in … Continue reading
Posted in - Other Distilleries, - World Whisky
Tagged Concertmaster, Kavalan, King Car, Taiwan
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Millstone 100 Rye, 50%, 100 months old – Zuidam
Zuidam is one of the few distilleries in The Netherlands that also produce whisky. Recently there have been some new start ups but so far, to me, Zuidam is the only one that counts. Apart from them there is one … Continue reading
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