Tag Archives: Undisclosed Distillery
Highland Single Malt 22, 1996-2023, Refill Bourbon Vatting Cask CD1-18, 54.7% – C. Dully Selection
I had, until recently, never heard of the C. Dully Selection, but it turns out to be a bottler from Switzerland. They’re trying to supply their friends and customers with old fashioned styles of whisky. The likes of which are … Continue reading
Posted in - News and Announcements, Clynelish, Undisclosed
Tagged 1996, Bourbon Cask, Brora, C. Dully Selection, Clynelish, Highlands, Scotch, Single Malt, Undisclosed Distillery, Whiskey, Whisky
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Secret Islay Distillery 8yo, 2013-2021, Port Hogshead 3513, 53.3% – Catawiki
Bottle number 37 of this release is empty now. Yesterday saw the last couple of sips being drained from it. After using it in a tasting almost a year ago I decided it was time to get the last glass … Continue reading
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Tagged 2013, Catawhisky, Catawiki, Islay, Port Cask, Undisclosed Distillery
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A Highland Distillery 21, 2000-2022, Sherry Hogshead, 55.2% – Watt Whisky
When traveling to Scotland in 2022, and staying on Arran we also made the obligatory trip to Campbeltown. While there we didn’t visit Springbank or Glen Scotia, but we did visit Watt Whisky. Back then we were the first to … Continue reading
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Tagged 2000, Campbeltown, Highland, Mark Watt, Undisclosed Distillery, Watt Whisky
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Secret Islay 14, 2008-2023, Refill Sherry Hogshead 13C, 54.4% – Whisky Nerds
With the C and the I highlighted on the label, the guessing to which distillery this is, is brought back to a minimum. Also, with things being what they are in Islay whisky’s popularity, there aren’t that many options left … Continue reading
Posted in Caol Ila, Undisclosed
Tagged 2008, Bram van Glabbeek, Caol Ila, Floris Kooistra, Islay, Secret Islay, Sherry Cask, Undisclosed Distillery, WhiskyNerds
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Couvreur Pale Single Single, 12yo, Fino cask, 45%
My friend RvB often goes to the Morvan region of Burgundy in France for holiday reasons. In Autun, there’s a rather awesome bottle shop that has an extended whisky selection. So, every now and then a bottle comes this way, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bouze-les-Beaune, Michel Couvreur, Pale Single Single, Sherry Cask, Undisclosed Distillery
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Secret Speyside 17, 2005-2023, First Fill Oloroso Sherry Butt, 58.1% – Signatory Vintage
According to everyone on the internet, this is a Macallan. The little (m) on the label also suggests that, since there’s not too many distilleries with an M out there. Macallan, Macduff, Mannochmore, Miltonduff and Mortlach. Of course, four of … Continue reading
Posted in Macallan, Undisclosed
Tagged 2005, Macallan, Secret Speyside, Sherry Cask, Signatory Vintage, Speyside, Undisclosed Distillery
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Speyside Single Malt 24, 1998-2023, 53.2% – Thompson Brothers
If you want older scotch malt whisky these days, you either have to go for undisclosed distilleries or blended malts. Or teaspooned as they like to call it. That is, if you want to keep things at least a little … Continue reading
Posted in Speyside, Undisclosed
Tagged 1998, Dornoch, Dramtime, Phil and Simon Thompson, Phil Thompson, Simon Thompson, Speyside, Thompson Bros, Undisclosed Distillery
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Islay 1992-2002, 59.9% – James MacArthur’s
Interestingly, even with our current drive for information in the world of whisky and the flack that a lot of whiskies, brands and distilleries get for not disclosing enough, this doesn’t seem to have been a problem two decades ago … Continue reading
Posted in Laphroaig, Undisclosed
Tagged 1992, Bourbon Cask, Islay, James MacArthur's, Laphroaig, Undisclosed Distillery
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Thalassa Whisky 10, 2011-2022, 55% – King Cask
But wait, wasn’t this reviewed already? Yes it is. Correct. However, this is a whisky that was ‘dynamically aged’ on the Thalassa, sailing across the Atlantic a couple of times before being bottled in Terschelling. Joris, of Dam Dranken on … Continue reading
Posted in Blair Athol, Undisclosed
Tagged 2011, Blair Athol, Bourbon Cask, Cognac cask, Highlands, King cask, Thalassa, Undisclosed Distillery
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Williamson 2010-2020, Refill Barrel twj-Lph01, 52.2% – The Whisky Jury
And yes, of course this is Laphroaig. Williamson is a regular name for undisclosed Laphroaig, named after Bessie Williamson, the distillery manager at Laphroaig from the Second World War to 1972, with her also being owner of the place since … Continue reading
Posted in Laphroaig, Undisclosed
Tagged 2010, Islay, Laphroaig, The Whisky Jury, Undisclosed Distillery, Williamson
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