Month: March 2024
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Good grog from Gordon
Gordon and MacPhail: the most venerable of Scotland’s independent bottlers, with over 125 years in the business and an enviable stock of old and rare malts. Today I’ll review some not too enviable stock, but still worthy enough to be bottled under their premium “Connoiseurs Choice” range, instituted in 1968. In both cases, the dram…
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The Newbies, Pt. II
Sound like the second instalment in some Scorsese Gangster thriller? Well, this is a thrilling tasting but but I hope it take less than 3h40 to complete. We’re continuing with the theme of trying out whisky from the New Wave of Scotch (malt) distilleries. There are currently 43 distilleries in this wave (with more in…
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The Nordic casks
For being a Swede and a whisky geek, I’ve tried embarrassingly little whisky from the Nordic countries, where, just like in Scotland, distilleries have been popping up like zits on a teenager’s greasy mug. Indie bottler Berry Bros. have released some rather exuberantly prices bottles in the Nordic casks range, but I got my hand…
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