Month: April 2025
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Linlagnahoenean
Lots of super-exclusive, old-age stuff recently. It’s time to bring things back to earth with some young spirit, but hopefully yummy drams, and work on topping up that baby blend. I’ll warm up with some Lindores, a sample of their early standard bottling that I didn’t receive in time for my Lindores tasting. Followed by…
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Baby Blend #1
Last year I did a bunch of reviews of newbie distilleries. Many samples were 5cl bottles, usually leaving an extra dram after my review. I did what any reasonable person would do and let these leftovers trickle into a bottle: The Baby Blend! Now, if I add up the volumes I wrote down for each…
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From still to snifter in a semi-century
From the still in the 70s (1974 or 75), to the bottle in the 90s (around 1993), to my glass in 2025: these whiskies have been on a journey through time. We have here three more or less peated whiskies of almost identical vintage and age, a Springbank, an Ardbeg, and a Caol Ila. Should…
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31, 30, 29, 22, 26, 25
It’s gearing up for… MY 300TH REVIEW ON THIS BLOG! A special retrospective & statistics-so-far post is coming up to celebrate, but I also wanted to make the 300th review a special dram. In the end, I couldn’t really decide, so I’ll let fate decide. I have held onto a special “Moin 2025” tasting pack…
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