Tag Archives: 2017

Balcones 4, 2017-2021, American Oak Barrel 16993, 63.6% – Archives

Posted on 13 January 2023 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

It’s not often that a four year old whisky scores richly above 88 points on Whiskybase, but this one does. It’s 28 votes, so not the most in the world, but not insignificant either. This Texas single malt whisky was … Continue reading →

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The best of 2021, part deux

Posted on 11 January 2022 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

Apart from last week’s post on what whiskies were strictly the best according to my rating, there are two lists that I still want to get out there. The first is the ‘not best but very impressive otherwise’ whiskies, and … Continue reading →

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The Nordic Casks #1, Berry Bros. & Rudd

Posted on 19 November 2021 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

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 →

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Isle of Raasay 3, 2017+2018-2021, Batch R-01, 46.4%

Posted on 28 October 2021 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

I didn’t put the cask type in the title, since there has to be something left for the post itself too. This, apparently, is a mix of rye whisky and bordeaux casks, but there are also chinkapin oak casks in … Continue reading →

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Torabhaig Allt Gleann, 2017+2018, Bourbon casks, 46%

Posted on 26 October 2021 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

Torabhaig is the second distillery on Skye, after Talisker. As in, it’s not the second distillery ever, but it is currently. It’s been operational for a few years now and early this year the initial release came out, which I … Continue reading →

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Waterford Hook Head 1.1, 3yo, 50%

Posted on 14 July 2021 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

I’ve not done the tally, but it feels like Waterford has released whisky from about 300 different farms in Ireland in the last year or so. I understand they’re going for terroir, and you need to be able to compare … Continue reading →

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Torabhaig 2017, The Legacy Series – The Inaugural Release, 46%

Posted on 9 February 2021 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

This has been a long awaited thing to happen. A new distillery on Skye! A few years ago when they started building the Torabhaig Distillery, they more or less instantly killed Talisker’s marketing engine of being the only distillery on … Continue reading →

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Yellowstone Limited Edition 2017 vs 2019, 50.5% (101 proof)

Posted on 29 September 2020 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

In the first tasting by Whisky4All I participated in we tasted the 2019 bottling of Yellowstone’s Limited Editon. I instantly bought a bottle because of the enormous complexity and goodness it showed. Even before I wrote notes, or told the … Continue reading →

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