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Tag Archives: Whiskybase
Three random, high octane GlenAllachie
GlenAllachie has been making name for themselves since Billie Walker took over a couple of years ago. While it was a bit of a generic distillery beforehand, focused on producing whisky for blenders, they now are releasing lots (and I … Continue reading
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Tagged 2008, 2009, 2010, Archives, Bottled for France, Bottled for The Netherlands, Chinquapin cask, Glenallachie, Sherry Cask, Whiskybase
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An Orkney Distillery 21, 1998-2020, Hogshead 10, 52.6% – Archives
This secret Highland Park at a very decent age was bottled last year by the guys at Whiskybase. I even drove there to pick it up, if I recall correctly, which also happened to be the first time I ever … Continue reading
Posted in Highland Park, Undisclosed
Tagged 1998, Archives, Bourbon Cask, HIghland Park, Islands, Orkney, Undisclosed Distillery, Whiskybase
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Ledaig 11, 2009-2020, Hogshead 700510, 58.9% – Whiskybase
Another 10,000 unique bottles were added to Whiskybase, so there had to be another single cask bottling. This time around, they picked a Ledaig, or a peated Tobermory, from a bourbon cask. Generally, as the last couple of years have … Continue reading
Posted in Ledaig, Tobermory
Tagged 2009, Bourbon Cask, Isle of Mull, Ledaig, Mull, Tobermory, Whiskybase
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Glen Scotia 20, 1992-2012, Hogshead 08/71, 50.4% – Archives
If I’m not mistaken this was in the first batch of whiskies ever released by Archives, which has since become a more-or-less household name for whisky fanatics in The Netherlands, and abroad. I got my hands on a bottle recently, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1992, Archives, Bourbon Cask, Campbeltown, Glen Scotia, Whiskybase
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Orkney Island 2005-2020, 14yo, 59.7% – Berry Bros & Rudd for Whiskybase
Of course this is Highland Park. All of the ‘undisclosed’ Orkney whiskies are Highland Park. This one was released sometime during the end of last year and I scored a bottle for bottle-sharing. I ended up with some 10cl for … Continue reading
Posted in Highland Park, Undisclosed
Tagged 2005, Berry Brothers and Rudd, Bourbon Cask, HIghland Park, Islands, Orkney, Undisclosed Distillery, Whiskybase
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Glenrothes 19, 1997-2017, 58.8% – Whiskybase
On of these 10,000*n bottles of Whiskybase. One I’ve had on my shelf for a while and never really got into, or got around to reviewing. In the end I sold some samples and it still took me three years … Continue reading
Blended Malt, 18yo, 46.6% – Whiskybase
As we know by now, Whiskybase releases a whisky for every 10,000 whiskies added to their database. The last one that was released is a blended malt of 18 years old, at a very limited ABV of 46.6%. What we … Continue reading
Posted in - Blended Malt, Glenrothes, Tamdhu
Tagged 2001, Blended Malt, Edrington, Glenrothes, HIghland Park, Highlands, Islands, Macallan, Sherry Cask, Speyside, Tamdhu, Whiskybase
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Glen Scotia 12yo, 2006-2019, 59.1% – Whiskybase
With every ten thousand new bottlings added to WhiskyBase they release a new whisky. Apart from that Whiskybase occasionally releases something extra, and this Glen Scotia was exactly that. It was released last year, at twelve years old from a … Continue reading
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Tagged 2006, Bourbon Cask, Campbeltown, Glen Scotia, Whiskybase
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Two Highland Park from 2002
Recently, Highland Park have started to be a lot more prolific in private cask releases. There’s still a slew of ‘Undisclosed Orkney’ going around, but I’m 99% sure that that is all Highland Park too, just without the official label … Continue reading
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Tagged 2002, Archives, Bourbon Cask, HIghland Park, Highlands, Islands, Loch Fyne Whiskies, Orkney, Sherry Cask, Whiskybase
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Whisky of the Year: Speyside 1973-2017, 44yo, 49.4% – Archives
Just before Christmas I got a surprise package from the mailman, containing a sample of Whiskybase’s newest release. Following their earlier 1973 releases which sold out more or less instantly, they made another one available. By now it’s a year … Continue reading
Posted in Undisclosed
Tagged 1973, Archives, Enchinoderms of Australia, Free Sample, Sherry Cask, Speyside, Whiskybase
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