Month: April 2023
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The Islay trip, day 1 – Ferry and Bruichladdich
It was all planned. Islay youth hostel booked. Islay ferries booked. Distillery tours and tastings scheduled. Members of the Water of Life Society (the whisky club of Edinburgh Uni) had signed up for the trip and paid their deposits. Then in the matter of a few days, all the planning, the expectations, and the excitement…
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Lovely Linkies: 10 & 15yo
For my very first review on this blog I honoured one of my favourite distilleries by pouring the final glass of a rare 24yo Linkwood. Now it’s time to give a couple of younger ‘Linkies’ a good run for their (considerably lesser) money. The first bottle, from the esteemed — some might say hyped —…
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Non-Islay peat #1
The isle of Islay is famous for its peaty whiskies. But there are both non-peaty Islay whiskies, and non-Islay peaty whiskies, not to mention non-Islay non-peated non-whiskies. Here I will review three bottles from my whisky cupboard that fall under the second heading. They come from three different most-of-the-time whisky regions of Scotland: Lowland, Highland,…
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