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Tag Archives: Wine cask
Kavalan 5, 2015-2021, Vinho Barrique, 55.6% – OB for The Netherlands
Somehow, whenever a Kavalan becomes available my ears peak up. I am not entirely sure why, because I’m not even that big a fan of the brand. There have been some true beauties from the Taiwanese distillery, but especially their … Continue reading
Posted in Kavalan
Tagged 2015, Bottled for The Netherlands, Kavalan, King Car, Taiwan, Wine cask
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Ardnamurchan AD/04:21, Paul Launois Release, 57.6%
With me trying to get my bearing and reshuffling priorities between working in an actual office, and not spending a coffee break writing a blog post, being back from a short trip to Scotland and spending some evenings with the … Continue reading
Posted in Ardnamurchan
Tagged Ardnamurchan, Guest Post, Highlands, Paul Launois, Tom van Engelen, Wine cask
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Best of Wines’ Blind Tasting Competition #3
The penultimate post on Best of Wines’ BTC, with another batch of three interesting drams. Interestingly, there was another on in here I should have recognized, and another that I have in my collection but haven’t gotten around to yet. … Continue reading
Best of Wines’ Blind Tasting Competition #2
Part two of the four part series in which I quickly go over the whiskies we had in the Blind Tasting Competition by Best of Wines. As said before, and in previous years when I participated in The Usquebaugh Society’s … Continue reading
Posted in Ardnamurchan, Springbank, Strathmill
Tagged 2002, 2009, 2014, 2015, Ardnamurchan, Best of Wines, Blind Tasting Competition, Bourbon Cask, Campbeltown, Carn Mor, Madeira cask, Sherry Cask, Springbank, STR, Strathmill, Wine cask
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Isle of Raasay 3, 2017+2018-2021, Batch R-01, 46.4%
I didn’t put the cask type in the title, since there has to be something left for the post itself too. This, apparently, is a mix of rye whisky and bordeaux casks, but there are also chinkapin oak casks in … Continue reading
Posted in Raasay
Tagged 2017, 2018, Chinkapin cask, Islands, Isle of Raasay, Raasay, Rye whisky cask, Wine cask
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Waterford Hook Head 1.1, 3yo, 50%
I’ve not done the tally, but it feels like Waterford has released whisky from about 300 different farms in Ireland in the last year or so. I understand they’re going for terroir, and you need to be able to compare … Continue reading
Posted in - Irish Whiskey, Waterford
Tagged 2017, Bourbon Cask, Hook Head, Ireland, Irish Whiskey, Mark Reynier, Virgin oak cask, Waterford, Wine cask
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Starward Fortis, Batch 2, Australian Red Wine Barrels, 50%
Normally I would start a post like this with something like ‘generally I try to avoid wine casks’, but with The Duchess and Michiel Wigman releasing good ones recently, that doesn’t seem to be true anymore. I bought this bottle … Continue reading
Secret Islay 2007-2021, 14yo, Monbazillac Cask, 51.7% – Michiel Wigman, They Inspired II
Just to clear some things up, Monbazillac is a French dessert wine, a sweet wine not unlike Sauternes or Muscat. As proven by Caol Ila’s Distiller’s Edition, this works quite well, generally. This Secret Islay is truly secret, Michiel Wigman … Continue reading
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Tagged 2007, Dutch Whisky Connection, Islay, Michiel Wigman, They Inspired, Undisclosed Distillery, Wine cask
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