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Benrinnes 15, 2006-2022, Refill Sherry Hogshead 17601802, 58.2% – Gordon & MacPhail
This Connoisseurs Choice bottling, done for Whisky Warehouse in Germany is a bottle I picked up in Luxemburg earlier this year, at Shopping Center Massen. If you’ve never been there and enjoy either good non-beer booze, or dry aged beef, … Continue reading
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Tagged 2006, Benrinnes, Connoisseur's Choice, Gordon & MacPhail, Sherry Cask, Shopping Center Massen, Speyside
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Benromach Contrasts: Peat Smoke 2012-2021, First-Fill Sherry Hogsheads, 46%
Benromach Contrasts is a series of whiskies from the awesome Speyside distillery that showcases a specific element of whisky making, which they then have changed from their regular releases. To put things in contrast, so to say. So far there … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, Benromach, Contrasts, Forres, Gordon & MacPhail, Sherry Cask, Speyside
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Benromach 19, 1978-1998, 63.8% – Rare Malts
This is one of these whiskies that I’ve seen on shelves at shops like The Old Pipe, ages ago. Back then Benromach wasn’t a popular distillery so I didn’t really have it on my radar, but either palates have changed … Continue reading
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Tagged 1978, Benromach, Diageo, Gordon & MacPhail, Rare Malts, Speyside
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Glenlochy 1979-2012, Refill Sherry Hogshead RO/12/04, 46% – Gordon & MacPhail
I only ever had one bottle of Glenlochy in my collection. I got it after reading about ‘Whisky of the land‘ in one of the April Fools articles on WhiskySponge, which is a very good article that I sometimes even … Continue reading
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Tagged 1979, Closed Distillery, Glenlochy, Gordon & MacPhail, Highlands, Rare Old
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Mannochmore 22, 1997-2020, First Fill Sherry Butt 12098, 55.8% – Gordon & MacPhail
This year’s Blind Tasting Competition has started, and it has done so in a great manner! Best of Wines started their sample kit with this rather well aged Mannochmore for which virtually no-one scored a lot of points. I scored … Continue reading
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Tagged 1997, Best of Wines, Blind Tasting Competition, Gordon & MacPhail, Mannochmore, Sherry Cask, Speyside
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Glentauchers 16, 2006-2022, Refill Bourbon Barrel 703712, 58.6% – Gordon & MacPhail for Whiskybase
The 15th anniversary of Whiskybase is a thing that should be celebrated. Not just from a commercial perspective, but also because I feel like Whiskybase has significantly changed the whisky landscape since its inception a decade and a half ago. … Continue reading
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Tagged 2006, Bourbon Cask, Glentauchers, Gordon & MacPhail, Speyside, Whiskybase
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Ardmore 1999-2018, 43% – Gordon & MacPhail
Interestingly, among the whisky geeks I know, these distillery labels by Gordon & MacPhail are not very popular. Being bottled at 43% doesn’t help, because it’s not cask strength. It’s not even 46%, which sits above the threshold for whisky … Continue reading
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Tagged 1999, Ardmore, Distillery Labels, Gordon & MacPhail, Highlands, Whiskykoning
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Isle of Jura 14, 1995-2010, Refill Bourbon Barrel 3199, 57.8% – Gordon & MacPhail
Ah, the infamous Isle of Jura distillery. On the island of ‘one’. One road, one town, one way there, one hotel, one distillery, one million deer. I was there in 2018. We were on the street across from the distillery … Continue reading
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Tagged 1995, Bourbon Cask, Gordon & MacPhail, Islands, Isle of Jura, Jura
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Glenlivet 1949-1980s, 40% – Gordon & MacPhail ‘George & J.G. Smith’s’
A while ago I got a surprise sample with an order from Best of Wines in Bussum. Apparently they had gotten some open bottles when buying a collection and this was one of them. If memory serves, that is. Of … Continue reading
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Tagged 1949, Best of Wines, George & J.G. Smith's, Glenlivet, Gordon & MacPhail, Speyside
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Benromach 11, 2009-2020, Cask Strength Batch 04, 57.2%
I’ve got a bit of a soft spot for Benromach. And, in this case, I can genuinely say that’s because their flavor profile suits me to a tee. I hadn’t been there before the revamped launch of Gordon & MacPhail’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 2009, Benromach, Cask Strength, Forres, Gordon & MacPhail, Speyside
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