Tag: 15-19yo
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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100th post / 100 proof
Historically in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, a spirit that was just at the threshold of being able to be set ablaze was defined as 100 proof, although the alcohol strength to which this threshold corresponds depends a lot on temperature. Less variable, though not precisely reproducible, is the strength of spirit that gunpowder can…
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