Month: August 2025
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Black Box August
The month of August offered a diverse harvest of 8 blind-tasted drams! Glentauchers • 10yo (2011) • 63.6% • Elixir Distillers Scotch Single Malt • Natural Colour & Unchillfiltered • Part of Single Malt of Scotland Whisky Calendar 2022 Blind tasting notes from a 3cl sample bottle Before reveal Nosing Pastry notes (butter, sugar, and…
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A walk in the Park
Yes. Yes, I do. “Viking Scars”, “Viking Honor”, “Viking Heart”, “Dragon Legend”, “Twisted Tattoo”, “Loyalty of the Wolf”. Except, these bottles are no longer new (the post is from 5 years ago), but replaced by a new sleeker range, dispensing with the cringe. So before these grotesque bottles fall into the memory hole, I wanted…
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‘Spirit Drink’
Today we’re not having whisky. We’re having ‘spirit drinks’. The first, “Auld Alford’s” is, by all indications, a whisky that during the course of maturation shared a wee bit too much with the angels, and fell below the 40% ABV limit required to be legally called whisky in Scotland. With that backstory and the low…
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An Arran Analysis
The Limburg Whisky Fair 2023 turned me into a sample hoarder. That’s when I really realized the breadth whisky samples one could get a hold of. And I started buying lots of samples online, too. And this is how I’ve been able to review well over 300 different whiskies on this blog so far. But…
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