Tag Archives: Wine cask

Milk & Honey 3, 60.7% – OB for Maltstock 2022

Posted on 7 September 2022 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

So, no further info in the title, because it would have gotten too long: Also, the vintages are either 2018 (the rum and bourbon casks) and 2019 (the STR casks), so it is technically 3 years old. And, in case … Continue reading →

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Lindores Abbey Distillery

Posted on 30 August 2022 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

Or at least, their whisky. I visited the place in spring, at which point a sizeable bottle share with a tasting to accompany said share could not not happen. Of course, writing actual tasting notes for the drams themselves takes … Continue reading →

Posted in Lindores Abbey | Tagged Bourbon Cask, Casks of Lindores, Exclusive Cask, Fife, Kingdom of Fife, Lindores Abbey, Lowlands, Sherry Cask, STR Cask, Wine cask | Leave a comment

2 Starwards from ‘private’ casks

Posted on 15 June 2022 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

Private between quotation marks because even though one of them is a real private cask, the other one is a bottling done for ‘The Netherlands’. While that is fairly limited in availability, it’s not really private. Anyway, Starward Distillery, from … Continue reading →

Posted in - World Whisky, Starward | Tagged Apera Cask, Australia, Australian Whisky, Bonding Dram, French Oak, Melbourne, Sherry Cask, Starward, Victoria, Whivie.be, Wine cask, World Whisky | 2 Comments

Kavalan 5, 2015-2021, Vinho Barrique, 55.6% – OB for The Netherlands

Posted on 11 April 2022 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

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 →

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Ardnamurchan AD/04:21, Paul Launois Release, 57.6%

Posted on 5 April 2022 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

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 | Leave a comment

The best of 2021, part deux

Posted on 11 January 2022 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

Apart from last week’s post on what whiskies were strictly the best according to my rating, there are two lists that I still want to get out there. The first is the ‘not best but very impressive otherwise’ whiskies, and … Continue reading →

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Best of Wines’ Blind Tasting Competition #3

Posted on 1 December 2021 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

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 →

Posted in Ben Nevis, Glen Scotia, Littlemill | Tagged 1990, 2010, Ben Nevis, Best of Wines, Blind Tasting Competition, Bourbon Cask, Chieftain's, Closed Distillery, Glen Scotia, Heavy Charred Cask, Highlands, Littlemill, Lowlands, The Duchess, Wine cask | Leave a comment

Best of Wines’ Blind Tasting Competition #2

Posted on 30 November 2021 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

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 | Leave a comment

Isle of Raasay 3, 2017+2018-2021, Batch R-01, 46.4%

Posted on 28 October 2021 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

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 →

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Waterford Hook Head 1.1, 3yo, 50%

Posted on 14 July 2021 by Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

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 | Leave a comment