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- A Blair Athol from a wine cask for the second Highlands whisky this week. And a surprisingly good one at that!… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 3 days ago
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Tag Archives: Wine cask
Blair Athol 13, bottled 2022, 56.2% – Hand filled at the distillery
A friend of mine gave me a sample of this a little while ago. Last year he visited the distillery on a family holiday to Scotland, if I recall correctly. This cask was available and although it officially doesn’t have … Continue reading
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Tagged Blair Athol, Distillery Only, Hand Filled, Highlands, Pitlochry, Wine cask
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Kilkerran 8, 2007-2015, Barolo Wine Cask, 61% – OB for Belgium
Another one of these random samples from the sample cupboard. I have no idea where it came from, but it’s an interesting one so I’m not going to feel bad about that for too long! It’s been a while since … Continue reading
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Tagged 2007, Campbeltown, Glengyle, Kilkerran, The Nectar, Wine cask
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Blair Athol 10, 2011-2021, 3 Red Wine Barriques, 50% – Uncharted Whisky Co.
I know where I got a sample of this, but I can’t for the life of me remember why. As in, I like Blair Athol well enough, but why on earth would I spend money (if I did) on a … Continue reading
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Tagged 2011, Blair Athol, Highlands, Uncharted Whisky Co, Wine cask
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Milk & Honey 3, 60.7% – OB for Maltstock 2022
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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Tagged 2018, 2019, Bourbon Cask, Israel, Maltstock, Milk & Honey, Rum Cask, Tel Aviv, Wine cask
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Lindores Abbey Distillery
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
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Tagged Bourbon Cask, Casks of Lindores, Exclusive Cask, Fife, Kingdom of Fife, Lindores Abbey, Lowlands, Sherry Cask, STR Cask, Wine cask
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2 Starwards from ‘private’ casks
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
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Tagged Apera Cask, Australia, Australian Whisky, Bonding Dram, French Oak, Melbourne, Sherry Cask, Starward, Victoria, Whivie.be, Wine cask, World Whisky
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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
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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
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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