Tag Archives: 2013
A Secret Islay Distillery 8yo, 2013-2021, PX Hogshead, 53.3% – Wu Dram Clan
The new year has only just begun (although a sixth has already passed) and Wu Dram Clan is on a roll again. Two grain whiskies and two single malts, the latter two from Islay. I decided to get a bottle … Continue reading
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Tagged 2013, Islay, Sherry Cask, Undisclosed, Undisclosed Distillery, Wu Dram Clan
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Kilchoman 7, 2013-2021, Tequila Cask 736/2013, 55.7% – OB for The Nectar
This Kilchoman finished, not matured, in a Tequila cask is one of the many bottlings for The Nectar‘s 15th anniversary. Where I thought The Nectar was a bottler, they are also a sizeable importer for Belgium, focusing on all kinds … Continue reading
The Nordic Casks #1, Berry Bros. & Rudd
A little while ago, ‘The Nordic Casks’ were released by London bottler Berry Bros. & Rudd. The Nordic Casks is a set of four different whiskies from, you’d never guess, the Nordics. Single cask bottlings from a distillery in Norway, … Continue reading
Posted in - World Whisky, Fary Lochan, High Coast, Kyrö, Myken
Tagged 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, Berry Brothers and Rudd, Bourbon Cask, Denmark, Fary Lochan, Finland, High Coast, Kyrö, Myken, Nettle smoked, Nordic Casks, Norway, Sherry Cask, Sweden
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Ardmore 2013-2018, 4yo, 57.2% – Cadenhead’s Warehouse Tasting
Last April I finally participated in a Cadenhead’s Warehouse Tasting. These tastings are legendary among whisky lovers and somehow I had never done one, until three months ago that is. You might have read my shameful post about accidentally blending … Continue reading
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Tagged 2013, Ardmore, Bourbon Cask, Cadenhead's, Highlands, Warehouse tasting
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FEW 3yo, 2013-2016, 63.4% – SMWS (B4.3 – Full Flavour Behaviour)
It struck me as kind of funny that one of the few (pun intended) American whiskeys the SMWS bottles has a name with two words that are spelled in a distinctly English way. So, I got a big share of … Continue reading
Posted in - American Whiskey, - Bourbon, FEW
Tagged 2013, American Whiskey, Bourbon, FEW, Scotch Malt Whisky Society, SMWS
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Millstone 2013-2016, Peated PX Cask, 56.6% – OB for Whisky in Leiden
Whisky in Leiden is the annual whisky festival hosted by Whiskysite.nl, or De Druiventuin, or whatever their exact name is. They’re an awesome and vast whisky shop in, you guessed it, Leiden. Ever since Whisky Live NL moved back to … Continue reading
Posted in - Festival, Millstone, Zuidam
Tagged 2013, Dutch whisky, Festival bottling, Millstone, Sherry Cask, Whisky in Leiden, Whiskysite, Zuidam
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Lagavulin 12yo, 55.1% – Diageo Premium Release 2013
Diageo releases their annual premium releases in Autumn. Sometimes, however, something goes wrong and it takes a lot longer for those releases to pop up in the Dutch stores. This was the case in 2013, which is why this whisky … Continue reading
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Tagged 2013, Diageo, Diageo Premium, Islay, Lagavulin, Whisky tasting, Whiskykoning
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Book review: Single Minded 2013
When you’re sick and in bed, what better things to do than read of watch TV? I did both over the last days and the first whisky book I read was Johanna Ngoh’s Single Minded. The tagline ‘a modest guide … Continue reading
Posted in - Book
Tagged 2013, Book review, Canada, Johanna Ngoh, Single Minded, Spirit of Toronto
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Malt Fascination 