Author: emil
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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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Black Box July
First half of July was not the best time for whisky. Preparing for a work trip, then spending most of it in a hotel room with a flu, and taking a long time to recover. As I was getting into the whisky tasting again I did not feel like big themed tasting, but started chipping…
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Ardnamurchan: Masters of the Multisensory Illusion
Ardnamurchan is a peninsula, and the westermost place in mainland Britain. Upon this peninsula sits Ardnamurchan distillery since 2014. Notably the distillery is owned by Adelphi, that highly regarded independent bottler. And the distillery has won renown too, winning the “Best New Distillery” category and the OSWAs three years in a row. Not so new…
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Summer Nevises
It’s a lovely summer evening, and that’s as good an excuse as any do pour some Ben Nevis whisky. And I do especially like a good Ben Nevis. Ben Nevis is the most-reviewed distillery on my blog, with 14 reviews so far, to which we shall now add 3, putting it firmly ahead of the…
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Glorious Glen Elgin
If I was pressed to name a single distillery as my absolute favourite, it would have to be Glen Elgin. Fruitiness galore, with impeccable spirit quality. An important factor is my experience with two bottles, one from A.D Rattray and the other from Asta Morris, drawn from sister casks with the same 1995 distil date,…
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Maggie
For tonight I’ve got a trio of vintage St. Magdalenes. This is a well-regarded closed Lowland distillery, that I’ve tried a couple of time before (#196). Let’s see what old lady Maggie can do this time. St. Magdalene | 18yo (1964) | 40% | Gordon & MacPhail 🌐 Scotch single malt 🪵 no info 🔆…
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Ghost Safari: Colebank Dhu
And were back on track with the ghost safari: Rosebank, Coleburn, and Dallas Dhu. Rosebank is among the most iconic of the ghost distilleries, one I tried a 16yo expression some time ago. Coleburn I haven’t tried before. It’s one of the many distilleries that fell prey to the whisky loch of the 80s, being…
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Judging the Jury
The Whisky Jury is the Belgian independent bottling company of a guy called Joeri (the pun is intended). Launching in 2019 with two vintage Ben Nevises and a Caol Ila bottling, they have had a slow but growing success, with over a 100 bottlings to date (including some malternatives). According to their website “We are…
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Black Box: May 2025
In September 2024 I posted my first edition of the black box, followed in October by the second edition. And then many other things scratched my blind tasting itch: whisky calendar, mystery tasting packs… Now in May 2025 I got back to the rather expansive black box and drew a sample here and there throughout…
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Ghost Safari: Double Kill
Only a few weeks ago in my review of Glen Flagler I wrote: The same compound housed a grain distillery Garnheath, the Glen Flagler malt distillery, and Killyloch malt distillery. The latter was a lighty-peated style (with a heavily peated ‘Islabrae’ version) whose production stopped in the early 1970s. Only three bottlings on whiskybase! That’s…
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