Tag Archives: 2014
Octomore 11.1, 5 years old, 2014-2020, 59.4%, 139.6ppm
So, no bridge between weeks of reviews this time. Can’t think of anything that isn’t ridiculously far fetched. This Octomore is peated to 139.6 ppm. If my information is correct, that the is the amount of phenols measured in the … Continue reading
Glentauchers 7, 2014-2021, Port Hogshead, 51.7% – Michiel Wigman
Now, this bit about the Port Hogshead is not on the internet, or on the label. However, the bottler himself told me in an email, so we’re going with that. A rather darkly colored Glentauchers, in line with quite a … Continue reading
Best of Wines’ Blind Tasting Competition #2
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
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
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
Strathearn 4, 2014-2018, Ex-Sherry Cask 075, 56.6% – OB for Dutch Whisky Festival
The first edition of Dutch Whisky Festival came with a bottling of their own. In the end I didn’t end up going to the festival, although I don’t exactly remember why. Probably because of me or my wife being ill … Continue reading
Ardnamurchan Batch 1 and 2!
Last September the first official release of Ardnamurchan happened. And if you’ve never been to a whisky festival between 2017 and early 2020, you might have never tasted their spirit either. It’s quite the anticipated distillery, since Adelphi, who runs/owns/built … Continue reading