Tag: linkwood
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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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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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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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Glenwood and Link Elgin
Tonight I have a tasting theme of utmost seriousness, requiring the fullness of attention and discernment: a blind tasting challenge! I happen to have samples from three of my favourite distilleries: Linkwood, Glen Elgin and Deanston. All three are 13 years old, 52-56% abv, and of a comparable colour that suggests all are ex-bourbon casks.…
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Lovely Linkies: 10 & 15yo
For my very first review on this blog I honoured one of my favourite distilleries by pouring the final glass of a rare 24yo Linkwood. Now it’s time to give a couple of younger ‘Linkies’ a good run for their (considerably lesser) money. The first bottle, from the esteemed — some might say hyped —…
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Goodbye to a well-aged friend: Linkwood 24yo
On our way back to Edinburgh from a rather improvised long-weekend getaway into the Highlands in summer 2021, Zoe and I spent the night in Inverness. Before departing the city we strolled into The Whisky Shop to have a browse – and there a 24 yo Linkwood caught my eye; a single cask bottling at…
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