Tag: single malt
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Port Charlotte comes of age
Port Charlotte is no stranger to this blog: there’s been both the visit to the distillery (Bruichladdich) in the Islay trip and the sampling of the old PC range that showcased the effect of increasing age, but still in the single digits. Today we take a sip of the childhood (10yo), teen years (15yo), and…
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Ghost Safari – Bar from afar
Time to cross another pair of elusive beasts off the “ghost safari” sighting chart — Ben Wyvis and Convalmore, samples I bought online from the “Bar Fram Afar” by Thomson Bros. / Dornoch and shipped with a bunch of stored bottles and an upcoming 8-part Dornoch 25th Anniversary Tasting. Ben Wyvis is indeed one of…
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Diwali Dram
Today is Diwali, the festival of light in the Hindu tradition, celebrating the victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance … and good whisky over bad whisky? Picadilly distillery in India, known for its single malt whisky brand Indri, put out a special Diwali bottle last year that won some…
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Jurassic pair
Jura is among my most-reviewed distilleries with a kind of love-hate relationship. At its worst it’s a horribly dry, vegetal and unbalanced train wreck of a single malt. But at its best, with some age and sensitivity of an independent bottler, it can be uniquely intriguing and delicious. Let’s see where the following two sit…
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197119781984
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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More Tober
I’ve come a long way in two years, from barely having tried Tobermory, to considering it one of my favourite distilleries – especially it’s older expressions. At it’s best it delivers the fruity, dirty, funk my soul craves. So now at whisky shows I look out for it, and I returned from Limburg 2025 with…
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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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Maggie
For tonight I’ve got a trio of vintage St. Magdalenes. This is a well-regarded closed Lowland distillery, that I’ve tried a couple of time before (#196). Let’s see what old lady Maggie can do this time. St. Magdalene | 18yo (1964) | 40% | Gordon & MacPhail 🌐 Scotch single malt 🪵 no info 🔆…
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Ghost Safari: Colebank Dhu
And were back on track with the ghost safari: Rosebank, Coleburn, and Dallas Dhu. Rosebank is among the most iconic of the ghost distilleries, one I tried a 16yo expression some time ago. Coleburn I haven’t tried before. It’s one of the many distilleries that fell prey to the whisky loch of the 80s, being…
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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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