Tag: 40-49yo
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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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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…
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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…
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Christmas calendar 2023: second half
It’s time to finish the calendar. One might say, what’s the rush, I missed the Christmas season anyways? Well, I’ve had some bad experiences of whisky samples deteriorating rapidly with time, causing cardboardy off-notes. My hypothesis is that this is mainly related to over-oxidization and that it happens faster in samples bottles in general, and…
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Catching up with the calendar – blindly!
In May 2023 I pre-ordered the whisky calendar from Brühler Whiskyhaus for a whopping €224.90. That works out to €9.37 per 2cl sample, on average. So one can expect some quite exclusive drams in there! With the Single Malts of Scotland whisky calendar that I bought last year, I just added the samples to my…
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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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