Month: March 2025
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WC sniff & sip 2025 (Part 2/2)
We continue after Part 1 with the second batch of 12 secret samples. One can surely expect a special finale! Hercynian Whisky Co. | “The Alrik Limited Exclusive” | 55.1% | Official 🌐 German single malt 🪵 PX sherry quarter casks 💲 €130 (50cl) 🔗 whiskybase from a 2cl sample bottle tasted blindly 🗒️ Tasting…
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Ghost Safari — Long-gone glens
This is another entry in the Ghost Safari series, where I am on a mission to try all closed Scotched single malt distilleries one can reasonable get one’s hands on (= that produced some whisky in the last 50 years). We come now to a set of long-gone Glens that I never tried before: Glen…
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Feeling for Teeling
Some years ago my aunt gifted a “Teeling Trinity Pack” to my father for Christmas. Him being rather fixed in what whisky he would drink and when (sherried Speysider with a piece of chocolate for a scheduled movie night) these samples gather dust in cellar until I recently rediscovered them. My gut feeling was that…
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Craigellachie craving
I’ve recently done many blind tastings (the whisky calendar, the Black Friday samples), which demands a lot of thinking and analysing — especially with only a 2cl sample! Today I was more in the mood for enjoyment/indulgence with less pressure, and after perusing my treasury of whisky sample for a while until my eyes fell…
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This and that
Most of my post are multi-dram tastings with clear themes. But sometimes it doesn’t work out that way. This first dram was the only one in my “black box” for November last year: Glen Garioch* | “Secret Highland Distillery” | 14yo (2008) | 52.9% | Sansibar 🌐 Scotch single malt 🪵 Oloroso hogshead 🔆 unchillfiltered…
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