Tag: glenwyvis
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Black Box August
The month of August offered a diverse harvest of 8 blind-tasted drams! Glentauchers • 10yo (2011) • 63.6% • Elixir Distillers Scotch Single Malt • Natural Colour & Unchillfiltered • Part of Single Malt of Scotland Whisky Calendar 2022 Blind tasting notes from a 3cl sample bottle Before reveal Nosing Pastry notes (butter, sugar, and…
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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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The Newbies, Part I
Scotland is in a veritable whisky boom. Never before in the history of Scotch whisky production (legal, at least…) has so many new distilleries been founded. Or so I’ve heard. To test such claims I scraped some data from the internet about opening and closing date of Scotch malt distilleries (mostly from wikipedia, whisky.com, lost…
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