Tag: peat
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More ‘bow

Following up on the “Bowmore straight from the source“, we are back to try some more of that juice: the 25yo Distiller’s Anthology 01. The juiciest of the lot? I better hope so, given that the I paid £20 for a mere 2cl sample. A bottle would fetch €700 on auction, probably haussed by Bowmore cultists…
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Non-Islay peat #1

The isle of Islay is famous for its peaty whiskies. But there are both non-peaty Islay whiskies, and non-Islay peaty whiskies, not to mention non-Islay non-peated non-whiskies. Here I will review three bottles from my whisky cupboard that fall under the second heading. They come from three different most-of-the-time whisky regions of Scotland: Lowland, Highland,…
