Tag Archives: 2002

Cooley 20, 2002-2022, Barrel 2215, 57.1% – Whiskybase

Posted on 10 January 2023 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

For every 10,000 bottles added to Whiskybase, they try to release a single cask whisky. Most of them are very interesting and rather decently priced. This one, bottled for the 200,000th addition, was a bit on the expensive side of … Continue reading →

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Secret Islay 20, 2002-2022, Sherry cask, 53.1% – Earlskine

Posted on 24 October 2022 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

After the first batch of Earlskine whiskies, there is now a new bottling. This time it is an undisclosed Islay whisky, with some hints on the label that leave exactly one option. So, there’s little guessing there. I like that … Continue reading →

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Special Vatting 12, 2002-2014, Sherry Casks, 45% – Michel Couvreur

Posted on 1 February 2022 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

These whiskies by French bottler Michel Couvreur tend to be a love-it-or-hate-it thing. I am in the first camp, although that absolutely doesn’t go for anything they produce. I generally don’t get too thrilled by 4 year old grain whisky, … Continue reading →

Posted in - Blended Malt, Michel Couvreur, Undisclosed | Tagged 2002, Blended Malt, Bouze-les-Beaune, Burgundy, Michel Couvreur, Peaty Malt Whisky, Sherry casks, Special Vatting | Leave a comment

The best of 2021

Posted on 7 January 2022 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

Apart from looking back, using hindsight to evaluate what happened on a more generic level, there was of course a lot of booze last year. In The Netherlands bottle-shops are in the same legal category as supermarkets and other foodstuff … Continue reading →

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Best of Wines’ Blind Tasting Competition #2

Posted on 30 November 2021 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

Part two of the four part series in which I quickly go over the whiskies we had in the Blind Tasting Competition by Best of Wines. As said before, and in previous years when I participated in The Usquebaugh Society’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Ardnamurchan, Springbank, Strathmill | Tagged 2002, 2009, 2014, 2015, Ardnamurchan, Best of Wines, Blind Tasting Competition, Bourbon Cask, Campbeltown, Carn Mor, Madeira cask, Sherry Cask, Springbank, STR, Strathmill, Wine cask | Leave a comment

Longmorn 17, 2002, Bourbon Cask, 53.9% – SMWS (7.239, Lemon curd bread-and-butter pudding)

Posted on 31 May 2021 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

Well, at least this time around the name of the whisky has something to do with flavors that make any sense. So I cound that as a win! Other than that we’re talking about a bourbon matured Longmorn here. Of … Continue reading →

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Bowmore 17, 2002-2020, 1st Fill Oloroso Hogshead TWB1010, 54.6% – The Whisky Barrel

Posted on 27 May 2021 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

I have no idea how someone would come up to bottle a cask of Islay whisky to commemorate the 51st anniversary of the moonlanding, but I’m glad they did. With this being a 2002 vintage, I think this is more-or-less … Continue reading →

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Springbank 17, 2002-2020, Rum/Bourbon finished in Madeira, 47.8%

Posted on 18 May 2021 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

Let’s make recipes more complicated than necessary, shall we? This whisky matured for 14 years in Bourbon and Rum barrels, to be finished for three years in a fresh Madeira cask. All 9200 bottles were released last year and it … Continue reading →

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Springbank 14, 2002-2016, Bourbon Barrel, 47.7% – Cadenhead

Posted on 14 April 2021 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

It’s been a while since I wrote these tasting notes, but it’s Springbank and Springbank is not something to just forget about and not review it. I am a self-professed Springbank Fanboy, although I don’t even buy that much of … Continue reading →

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Two Highland Park from 2002

Posted on 15 November 2019 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

Recently, Highland Park have started to be a lot more prolific in private cask releases. There’s still a slew of ‘Undisclosed Orkney’ going around, but I’m 99% sure that that is all Highland Park too, just without the official label … Continue reading →

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