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- Another lost-and-found sample. Arran 19, 1996-2015, 48.8% - Gleann Mór A Rare Find maltfascination.com/2020/10/23/arr… 2 days ago
- A review I should have posted a few years ago... Ledaig 2007-2015, 8yo, 52.3% - Beacon Spirits maltfascination.com/2020/10/22/led… 3 days ago
- Springbank and port casks can really work well together. As proven by this baby. Springbank 12, 2001-2013, 53.5% -… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 4 days ago
- Another guest post by Tom van Engelen: Lagavulin with Port Ellen influences maltfascination.com/2020/10/20/gue… 5 days ago
Tag Archives: Diageo
Guest Post: Lagavulin with Port Ellen influences
Tom climbs his pen once again to write down his thoughts on the new Lagavulin 12 years old. An annual highlight in the world of special releases. A highlight in the year is always the Special Releases announcement of Diageo. … Continue reading
Posted in Lagavulin
Tagged Diageo, Guest Post, Islay, Lagavulin, Special Releases, Tom van Engelen
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Guest post: Caol Ila Feis Ile 2020 edition brings the festival on your doorstep
Tom picked up his pen once more to supply us with a review to a rather interesting whisky. Reviewed within a day of arriving at his doorstep, and one of the first reviews of this whisky online, if our Google … Continue reading
Posted in Caol Ila
Tagged Caol Ila, Diageo, Feis Ile, Guest Post, Sherry Cask, Tom van Engelen
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Guest post: The Battle of the Benrinnes (1979 vs 2000)
It’s been some time, but I’ve got another guest-post lined up for you! My friend Tom van Engelen wrote about his experience comparing two Benrinnes to each other. Their distillation date is more than two decades apart so there should … Continue reading
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Tagged 1979, 2000, Benrinnes, Bourbon Cask, Cadenhead, Diageo, Dun Bheagan, Guest Post, Ian Macleod, Speyside, Tom van Engelen
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Talisker 15, 57.3% – Diageo Special Releases 2019
The Diageo Special Releases are always a thing to look forward to as summer approaches. As in, that’s generally when the announcement happens or there is some marketing leak in which they releases are listed. When it happened last year, … Continue reading
Posted in - News and Announcements, Talisker
Tagged Diageo, Diageo Special Releases, Islands, Skye, Talisker
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Caol Ila 34yo, 1982-2016, 60.1% – Cadenhead
Back in 2016 when I bought two sizable samples of this, I wasn’t overly impressed. I don’t remember why and I don’t remember what I expected. However, it made me forget sample number two until recently, when I could try … Continue reading
Talisker 18, 2019 release, 45.8%
When I started drinking whisky, about 15 years ago, we went straight from Glenfiddich 12 to Talisker 18 and Caol Ila 18. Let’s say I’ve never been sensible about whisky, or money. Anyway, back then this whisky made tremendous impact … Continue reading
Teaninich 17yo, 58.3% – The Manager’s Dram
In the past, Diageo sometimes let their distillery managers select a cask from the warehouse for a line of bottlings. The most recent exercise in this was the Manager’s Choice, which was a huge flop by any measure. Some of … Continue reading
Cragganmore 12, 58.4% – Diageo Special Releases 2019
This little Cragganmore caught most people off guard, as far as I know, because it’s a peated Cragganmore. While it is fairly safe to assume that most distilleries do some experimentation with peating their whisky, I didn’t know they did … Continue reading
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Tagged Bourbon Cask, Cragganmore, Diageo, Diageo Premium, Speyside
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