Tag: benrinnes
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The theme of today’s tasting is Some 2cl Samples of Old Vintage Speysiders That I Need to Drink Before They Go Bad. The first sample, a Tamdhu from Creative Whisky Company, I brought from the Limburg Whisky Festival 2025, and the other two, 1970s Cadenhead’s Benrinnes and Signatory Miltonduff, I got from Simple Sample as…
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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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The Black Box #1

Tasting blindly is so revealing and so much fun, as I learned especially from the whisky calendar tastings. And in WOLS we always did blind tastings, though on a known theme and in the good company of others and on a time budget, a super carful analysis of the taste experience was not really the…
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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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Benrinnaissance

Finally, two weeks after the onset of a nasty cold, I feel sufficiently recovered to trust my nose with a whisky review (it’s 14th May today). On the menu: two samples from the Benrinnes distillery in Speyside. One from UK independent bottler Chorlton, that I bought from Hop/Scotch, the other sample from my Single Malts…
