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  • The Jingle Malts of Scotland

    The Jingle Malts of Scotland

    It’s been many weeks of hard work, and no whisky tasting. Now I finally have a day off, and what a grand tasting I shall have as a reward for my toil! A 14yo Lowland, 13yo Highland, 31yo Speyside, and 28yo Islay, all single casks with 51-54% ABV. These are the samples from undisclosed distilleries…

  • Blends in their 40s

    Blends in their 40s

    It’s been a lot of single malt recently. Not only recently, but in general. Time to take things a little less seriously with some unassuming blends. Let’s see what we have in the cupboard. Ah, according to my secret files, I acquired some blend samples on October 31st, 2022, though a UK order at master…

  • Three Deanies

    Three Deanies

    For no very particular reason, I’m doing a Deanston tasting with the samples I’ve got. Two were thrown in with with other stuff in online shop purchases, and the third one I actually picked up at the distillery last year. Without further ado… Deanston | 11yo (2009) | 46% | Home of Malts 🌐 Scotch…

  • Missing number 36

    Missing number 36

    When I was formatting my Review Index, I made a horrifying discovery: there was no review #36! Where could it have gone? Finding no review between #35 Jura and #37 Glencadam, I concluded I must have simply skipped a number. Or perhaps it was one of a couple of spoiled samples that in the end…

  • Glen Keith im Vergleich

    Glen Keith im Vergleich

    “Glen Keith” must be the least sexy distillery name in Scotland. At least it’s not Glen Kevin… He’s a big boomer boy, Keith, built in 1957 to produce 6 million litres a year for blends geared towards the American market (Chivas Regal, Passport and 100 Pipers Blends). Mothballed in 1999 and reopened in 2013. There…

  • The Newbies, Pt. III

    The Newbies, Pt. III

    Bang on to a new set of four distilleries in the new wave (The Newbies, Part I; The Newbies, Pt. II). Eden Mill was founded in 2012 (production started 2014) in St Andrews and runs both brewing and distilling operations. It’s a small independent distillery with 100’000 L yearly capacity (that’s one 150th that of a giant…

  • The Barn of the King

    The Barn of the King

    We were driving from Edinburgh to St. Andrews on a spontaneous day trip. Somehow fiddling with Google Map I see we are just about to pass close to Kingsbarns, a distillery name I recognized. A little while later we are pulling up to the visitor centre. Bad luck! We are arriving just as the last…

  • Springtime

    Springtime

    Springbank call themselves “The whisky drinker’s whisky”. It is indeed a whisky that’s for very long been highly regarded among whisky enthusiasts, and certainly among many of my more whisky-seasoned friends in WOLS who in large part inducted me into the whiskyverse. Springbank is the stalwart of the Campbeltown style of single malt, and family-owned…

  • Good grog from Gordon

    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…

Hej, hiya, moin!

I’m Emil, a Swedish ex-resident of Scotland now living in northern Germany. This blog is my virtual memory for all things related to whisky (and other fine spirits) in my life: I write reviews, report on trips and events, contemplate the results of my own experimentations, and scribble down un-/semi-/quasi-qualified opinions and perspectives. Welcome to a taste of my whisky world!

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