Tag Archives: Blended Malt
Blended Malt 38, 1977-2015, 45.4% – Creative Whisky Company
Back in 2015 David Stirk released the David Rampling Series. A series of 12 bottlings with special labels by David Rampling. It’s all about falcons with this artist, so it’s not overly surprising that the labels all contain those. Since … Continue reading
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Tagged 1977, Blended Malt, Creative Whisky Company, David Rampling, David Stirk, review, Scotch, Sherry Cask, Whisky
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Burnside 28, 1991-2020, Bourbon Barrel 7367, 45% – C. Dully Selection
Yeah, another ‘blended malt’ from Balvenie Distillery. There’s a drop of something else, most likely Glenfiddich, in this one to declassify this as Single Malt. Of course, this generally is reflected in the price and many whisky fanatics know by … Continue reading
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Tagged 1991, Balvenie, Blended Malt, Bourbon Cask, Burnside, C. Dully Selection, Scotch, Single Malt, Speyside, Teaspooned
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Burnside 24, 1997-2021, Hogshead 6542, 54.1% – Archives
Another undisclosed Balvenie that is tea-spooned. A few years ago there were a lot of them, but this specific one was bottled for the Taiwanese market. By Archives / Whiskybase, with a bird from the orient on the label. Genereally, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1997, Archives, Balvenie, Blended Malt, Bourbon Cask, Burnside, Dufftown, Speyside, Whiskybase
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Distilled in Sutherland 5, 2023 Edition, 48.5% – Phil & Simon Thompson
Earlier this year I got my hands on the 2022 edition of ‘Distilled in Sutherland‘, which is a blended malt of all three distilleries in Sutherland. That means it’s Clynelish, Brora and Dornoch. With it being 5 years old it … Continue reading
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Tagged Blended Malt, Brora, Clynelish, Dornoch, Highlands, Phil and Simon Thompson, Sutherland
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Wardhead 23, 1997-2020, 52.1% – Michiel Wigman
As far as blended malts go, this one keeps things very close. It’s 99.999% Glenfiddich with a teaspoon of Balvenie, if that has even been added and not only stated to have been added. Anyway, it’s not the first Wardhead, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1997, Balvenie, Blended Malt, Glenfiddich, Michiel Wigman, Speyside, They Inspired, Wardhead
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Westport 21, 1999-2020, American Oak Hogshead 800075, 43.8% – The Whisky Cellar
This is, as whisky fanatics tend to know, a Glenmorangie. With Glenmorangie being a bit more expensive as a brand, it seemed like a good call to pick up a bottle of this, sometime during the pandemic. Glenmorangie 18 is … Continue reading
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Tagged 1999, Blended Malt, Bourbon Cask, Glenmorangie, Highlands, Tain, Tea spooned, Westport, Whisky Cellar
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Burnside 1999-2023, Oksamyt Wine Finish, 57.9% – Berry Bros. & Rudd
Where Fiddichside is obviously Glenfiddich, Burnside is their neighbouring distillery of Balvenie. As with many distilleries nowadays, they don’t want their distillery name on the label, and on top of that things have to be bottled as a blended malt. … Continue reading
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Tagged 1999, Balvenie, Berry Brothers and Rudd, Blended Malt, Burnside, Kirsch Import, Speyside, Tea spooned, Wine cask
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Fiddichside 31, 1989-2021, 1st Fill Oloroso and PX Finish, 47.5% – Murray McDavid Mission Gold
Fiddichside, hmm… What could it be? I don’t know of any other distillery with ‘fiddich’ in its name, so I guess this will always be a guess. It does say that it’s a blended malt, so it might be a … Continue reading
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Tagged 1989, Blended Malt, Drambo, Fiddichside, Glenfiddich, Mission Gold, Murray McDavid, Sherry Cask, Speyside
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Sutherland 5, Highland Blended Malt, 48.5% – Thompson Brothers for the 20th Anniversary of Whiskyfun.com
A five year old whisky that’s being released at about € 110 must be something special, right? It does remind me a little bit of Compass Box’s 3 year old from a couple of years ago. This bottling was done … Continue reading
Posted in - Blended Malt, Brora, Clynelish, Dornoch
Tagged Blended Malt, Brora, Clynelish, Dornoch, Phil and Simon Thompson, Phil Thompson, Serge Valentin, Simon Thompson, Sutherland, Thompson Bros, Whiskyfun
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Wardhead 21, 1997-2018, 54.6% – Càrn Mòr
Which distillery is this, this Wardhead? Well, as most whisky nerds know by now, there are some code names for distilleries that don’t want their name used on labels. Westport is Glenmorangie, Burnside is Balvenie, ‘Secret Orkney’ is Highland Park, … Continue reading
Posted in - Blended Malt, Glenfiddich, Undisclosed
Tagged 1997, Blended Malt, Glenfiddich, Morrison and MacKay, Speyside, Teaspooned, Undisclosed Distillery, Wardhead
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Malt Fascination 