Month: March 2023
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Trio of old grains: 39, 45, 46yo
Aah, grain whisky. Grain as in not malted barley. Not something I often try. What I somehow know, not so much by experience but through… reading? folklore?… is that grain whisky produced by continuous distillation in column still tends to lack the complexity of malt whisky distilled in copper stills. The presence of grain spirit…
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Ben Nevis bottle kills
Tonight (March 4th) I’m finishing off two Ben Nevises. Ben Nevis is one of those character malts sought after by enthusiasts, at least the 20yo+ ones. I remember friends in my whisky club adoring Ben Nevis for it’s “cheesy” qualities. Some of us had the chance, under rather crazy circumstances at a whisky industry event,…
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Goodbye to a well-aged friend: Linkwood 24yo
On our way back to Edinburgh from a rather improvised long-weekend getaway into the Highlands in summer 2021, Zoe and I spent the night in Inverness. Before departing the city we strolled into The Whisky Shop to have a browse – and there a 24 yo Linkwood caught my eye; a single cask bottling at…
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DuckDrams takes flight!
It has been gestating in my mind for some time, and has finally hatched and is ready to take flight: my personal blog about whisky (and other fine spirits™©℮)! Oh, does the internet really need another one of those?! Maybe not, so feel free to look at some serious web projects instead. Now, any self-respecting…
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