Tag: highland
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Ardnamurchan: Masters of the Multisensory Illusion
Ardnamurchan is a peninsula, and the westermost place in mainland Britain. Upon this peninsula sits Ardnamurchan distillery since 2014. Notably the distillery is owned by Adelphi, that highly regarded independent bottler. And the distillery has won renown too, winning the “Best New Distillery” category and the OSWAs three years in a row. Not so new…
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Ghost Safari: Double Kill
Only a few weeks ago in my review of Glen Flagler I wrote: The same compound housed a grain distillery Garnheath, the Glen Flagler malt distillery, and Killyloch malt distillery. The latter was a lighty-peated style (with a heavily peated ‘Islabrae’ version) whose production stopped in the early 1970s. Only three bottlings on whiskybase! That’s…
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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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Ghost safari #1
I have been trying a lot of newbie distilleries recently (Newbies Pt I, II, III) with the aim of getting through all of them eventually — a task that will take years for the simple fact that new distilleries still keep popping up like malty mushrooms in the ground! Of the 28 distilleries founded in…
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The Jingle Malts of Scotland
It’s been many weeks of hard work, and no whisky tasting. Now I finally have a day off, and what a grand tasting I shall have as a reward for my toil! A 14yo Lowland, 13yo Highland, 31yo Speyside, and 28yo Islay, all single casks with 51-54% ABV. These are the samples from undisclosed distilleries…
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Three Deanies
For no very particular reason, I’m doing a Deanston tasting with the samples I’ve got. Two were thrown in with with other stuff in online shop purchases, and the third one I actually picked up at the distillery last year. Without further ado… Deanston | 11yo (2009) | 46% | Home of Malts 🌐 Scotch…
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The Grand Glenfarclas Gustation
Glenfarclas stands out for many reasons. It’s one of only a few family owned distilleries in Scotland. It’s one of only three Scotch distilleries to direct-fire their stills, supposedly contributing to the ‘weight’ of the spirit, so suitable for long maturation in sherry casks. They market themselves a Highland malt, rather than a Speyside malt,…
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Inchmurrin 1997
Loch Lomond distillery in west Highlands, near Glasgow, is a chameleon of a distillery. It sports no less than 11 stills of four different kinds, allowing them to produce a variety of styles, from both malted barley and grain. This means they can make their own blend, in-house. The most well-known and -selling product is…
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Open up for the Dornochs
[Title image from dramscotland] £1200 for a 50cl bottle of 3yo whisky! That’s what you’d be paying at auction for a bottle of Dornoch distillery’s first release a couple of years ago. Dornoch distillery is the passion project of the Thompson brothers, Phil and Simon, famous for their whisky bar at Dornoch Castle Hotel, and…
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Dea(n)ston
Deanston, not among the most well-known Scotch distilleries, but one that should be! Deanston first came under my radar some years ago in a ralfy.com review, if I don’t misremember. I tried it in an Edinburgh pub, in a context where the focus was more on the company than the dram, but remember getting a…
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