Category: Review
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Limburg 2025
Limburg Whisky Festival — the whisky event of the year in Germany! And how lucky am I that my friend Simon could host me in Frankfurt, and was as excited for the festival as I. The whisky experience is great, but having someone to share it with is what makes the long ride from Plön…
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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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WC sniff & sip 2025 (Part 2/2)
We continue after Part 1 with the second batch of 12 secret samples. One can surely expect a special finale! Hercynian Whisky Co. | “The Alrik Limited Exclusive” | 55.1% | Official 🌐 German single malt 🪵 PX sherry quarter casks 💲 €130 (50cl) 🔗 whiskybase from a 2cl sample bottle tasted blindly 🗒️ Tasting…
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Ghost Safari — Long-gone glens
This is another entry in the Ghost Safari series, where I am on a mission to try all closed Scotched single malt distilleries one can reasonable get one’s hands on (= that produced some whisky in the last 50 years). We come now to a set of long-gone Glens that I never tried before: Glen…
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Feeling for Teeling
Some years ago my aunt gifted a “Teeling Trinity Pack” to my father for Christmas. Him being rather fixed in what whisky he would drink and when (sherried Speysider with a piece of chocolate for a scheduled movie night) these samples gather dust in cellar until I recently rediscovered them. My gut feeling was that…
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Craigellachie craving
I’ve recently done many blind tastings (the whisky calendar, the Black Friday samples), which demands a lot of thinking and analysing — especially with only a 2cl sample! Today I was more in the mood for enjoyment/indulgence with less pressure, and after perusing my treasury of whisky sample for a while until my eyes fell…
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This and that
Most of my post are multi-dram tastings with clear themes. But sometimes it doesn’t work out that way. This first dram was the only one in my “black box” for November last year: Glen Garioch* | “Secret Highland Distillery” | 14yo (2008) | 52.9% | Sansibar 🌐 Scotch single malt 🪵 Oloroso hogshead 🔆 unchillfiltered…
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