Category: Review
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Tamdhu times two
Tamdhu (pronounced Tam-DOO) is one of those Speyside distilleries that has mostly fallen under the radar for me. Last time I can recall having it (well, the only time, really), was when someone brought the 12yo along for a Highland whisky trip in 2019. I remember nought of the taste, but I do remember the…
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Bowmore straight from the source
As part of the Islay trip we visited Bowmore distillery, unsurprisingly located in the town of Bowmore (pronounced BowMORE). This was on my day as designated driver, and we had no tour booked, but hung around in the bar area where the society bought everyone a dram of the non-age stated (NAS) “No 1” that…
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Lovely Linkies: 10 & 15yo
For my very first review on this blog I honoured one of my favourite distilleries by pouring the final glass of a rare 24yo Linkwood. Now it’s time to give a couple of younger ‘Linkies’ a good run for their (considerably lesser) money. The first bottle, from the esteemed — some might say hyped —…
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Non-Islay peat #1
The isle of Islay is famous for its peaty whiskies. But there are both non-peaty Islay whiskies, and non-Islay peaty whiskies, not to mention non-Islay non-peated non-whiskies. Here I will review three bottles from my whisky cupboard that fall under the second heading. They come from three different most-of-the-time whisky regions of Scotland: Lowland, Highland,…
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Trio of old grains: 39, 45, 46yo
Aah, grain whisky. Grain as in not malted barley. Not something I often try. What I somehow know, not so much by experience but through… reading? folklore?… is that grain whisky produced by continuous distillation in column still tends to lack the complexity of malt whisky distilled in copper stills. The presence of grain spirit…
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Ben Nevis bottle kills
Tonight (March 4th) I’m finishing off two Ben Nevises. Ben Nevis is one of those character malts sought after by enthusiasts, at least the 20yo+ ones. I remember friends in my whisky club adoring Ben Nevis for it’s “cheesy” qualities. Some of us had the chance, under rather crazy circumstances at a whisky industry event,…
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Goodbye to a well-aged friend: Linkwood 24yo
On our way back to Edinburgh from a rather improvised long-weekend getaway into the Highlands in summer 2021, Zoe and I spent the night in Inverness. Before departing the city we strolled into The Whisky Shop to have a browse – and there a 24 yo Linkwood caught my eye; a single cask bottling at…
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