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Tag Archives: 2010
Loch Lomond 10, 2010-2020, Bourbon Barrel 349, 57.7% – OB for The Whisky Exchange
Yet another iteration of ‘I shamefully admit having lost this sample somewhere in the cupboard’, until recently of course. With this being released in 2020, I suspect this came in during the construction work being done on our house last … Continue reading
Posted in Loch Lomond
Tagged 2010, Bourbon Cask, Highlands, Loch Lomond, The Whisky Exchange
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Glenturret 10, 2010-2021, Marsala Hogshead 6358, 57.8% – Infrequent Flyers
Generally, I think Glenturret is a fine distillery. Not that I gobble up anything that becomes available, but the general level of quality is ‘pretty deece’. Of course, there’s quite some rather legendary stuff from the late seventies, but when … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010, Alistair Walker Whisky Company, Glenturret, Highlands, Infrequent Flyers, Marsala cask
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Best of Wines’ Blind Tasting Competition #3
The penultimate post on Best of Wines’ BTC, with another batch of three interesting drams. Interestingly, there was another on in here I should have recognized, and another that I have in my collection but haven’t gotten around to yet. … Continue reading
Best of Wines’ Blind Tasting Competition #1
Earlier this month Best of Wines hosted a Blind Tasting Competition. With Nils, the resident whisky geek, being a former member of the Usquebaugh Society, and said Society stopping their version of the competition, Nils took over and hosted this … Continue reading
Posted in Bunnahabhain, Glenallachie, Macduff
Tagged 2008, 2010, 2014, Best of Wines, Blind Tasting Competition, Bunnahabhain, Campbeltown Whisky Company, Chinquapin cask, David Stirk, Dechar/Rechar, Electric Coo Series, Glenallachie, Macduff, Mark Watt, Sherry Cask, Staoisha, The Ultimate, Van Wees
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Hampden 8yo vs Hampden LROK
Hampden is a Jamaican rum distillery, and apart from profiting from the rum renaissance that’s been happening ever since whisky got so ridiculously expensive, they’ve been producing quality hooch for years. What’s more interesting from a geek’s perspective is that … Continue reading
Three random, high octane GlenAllachie
GlenAllachie has been making name for themselves since Billie Walker took over a couple of years ago. While it was a bit of a generic distillery beforehand, focused on producing whisky for blenders, they now are releasing lots (and I … Continue reading
Posted in Glenallachie
Tagged 2008, 2009, 2010, Archives, Bottled for France, Bottled for The Netherlands, Chinquapin cask, Glenallachie, Sherry Cask, Whiskybase
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A Highland Distillery 10yo, 2010-2020, Sherry Butt 2090, 54.8% – The Maltman
Where there always have been a lot of ‘secret Speyside’ releases over the last decades, there weren’t that many secret Highland version around. This has changed over the last couple of years with more and more distilleries not wanting their … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010, Meadowside Blending, Sherry Cask, The Maltman, Undisclosed Distillery
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Ben Nevis 10, 2010-2020, Shiraz Cask 1800020, 56.7% – The Duchess
Contrary to my normal modus operandi, I’m actually ahead in tasting this whisky. Of course that is no coincidence, since the release of this review was more or less requested to be a little ahead of the actual release of … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010, Ben Nevis, Best of Whiskies, Fort William, Free Sample, Hans Dillesse, Highlands, The Duchess, Wine cask
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All three of these are Clynelish
It seems a new Diageo rule that Clynelish can no longer be represented on labels, since everything that has been released lately is labeled as ‘Secret Highland Distillery’. Of course that doesn’t mean all these secret highlands are Clynelish, but … Continue reading
Caol Ila 9yo, 2010-2020, 52.3% – Signatory Vintage for Kirsch Import
To say there have been an epic amount of single cask Caol Ila between the age of 5 and 15 the last couple of years is an understatement. I don’t a single bottler has been skipped, unless they didn’t want … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010, Caol Ila, Islay, Kirsch Import, Sherry Cask, Signatory Vintage
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