Ardbeg 10 YO, 46 % I dag kommer enda en anmeldelse av et sikkerstikk Onsdag skrev jeg om Talisker 10 YO som alltid er god, og i dag handler det altså om Ardbeg 10 YO. Dagens whisky var en del av den siste smakingen til The Ladies’ Share. Det er ikke til å komme i […]...

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Ardbeg 10 YO, 46 % I dag kommer enda en anmeldelse av et sikkerstikk Onsdag skrev jeg om Talisker 10 YO som alltid er god, og i dag handler det altså om Ardbeg 10 YO. Dagens whisky var en del av den siste smakingen til The Ladies’ Share. Det er ikke til å komme i […]...

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Myken Distillery is the youngest Norwegian Distillery, they are in fact very young. They are also very remote, arctic and exotic, but more on that later. I first wrote about Myken back in april (see article in Norwegian). It is about time we caught up with Roar Larsen, Manager at Myken Distillery. Let’s see what the […]...

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Lindores Whisky Fest 2014 is taking place this weekend. There are two festival bottlings, both from the Malts of Scotland stocks.

The official one is a Laphroaig 1996 matured in a brandy (!) hogshead, the other one this Ardbeg 1991 from a sherry hogshead . While the label says bottled for Geert’s Whisky Bar @ Hotel Bero it is only for sale this weekend so you can call it a second festival bottling.

Mind that there has already been a similar Ardbeg 1991 for Hotel Bero in 2011.

Ardbeg 23 yo 1991 (48,9%, Malts of Scotland for Hotel...

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BenRiach 1995 19 YO Cask #3616 for The Tasting Room, 53,7 % It’s been a while since I last wrote something for Whisky Saga, but when I heard that The Tasting Room here in Bergen had got their first official single cask bottling of The BenRiach I decided to pay them a visit and make some […]...

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Balvenie Tun 1509 is the follow-up of the distillery’s success story Balvenie Tun 1401 which was released in nine batches between 2010 and early 2014. All of them were good whiskies, some of them even outstanding.

So now there’s this new 8000-liter marriage tun #1509 which is four times bigger than its predecessor. For Balvenie this is a way of upping the scale and reaching more people. Nothing wrong with that.

However not only did the scale change, the cask distribution is also clearly different. Tun 1509 batch 1 consists of 42 casks: 35 ex-bourbon casks and 7 sherry butts...

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The folks at Glenfarclas  are best known for producing whisky of a very specific style: sherry matured. They’ve done many releases with a nod to other styles, but the core of what they do is rich and heavy whisky, showing the classic sherry-matured style. However, every now and again, they find some interesting casks and release something that shows another side of the distillery’s character. The most recent of these special releases is the Glenfarclas 1966 Fino Casks .

The type of sherry usually associated with the classic sherry-cask-matured style is oloroso, a rich and dark wine, packed with dark-fruit...

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Bere is Scotland’s oldest cultivated barley. It was brought to the UK by the Vikings over 1000 years ago, and it was quite common in whisky production before the 20th Century. However over the last few decades it was hardly available because it is notoriously difficult to grow.

In 2004 Arran distillery worked with the Agronomy Institute of Orkney College (University of the Highland & Islands) to produce this high-quality grain and distill the Arran Bere Barley . After an initial release in 2012 (5800 btl.) there’s now a new edition, 10 years old and bottled at cask strength .

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As mentioned on the blog previously, we’ve recently run a prize draw with our friends at Paul John : everyone who bought a bottle of Edited , Brilliance , Peated Selected Cask or the Classic Select Cask was entered into a draw to win a £500 shopping trip on The Whisky Exchange website. Our trusty random number generator was fired up and a winner chosen.

Paul John prize draw winner, Mags Brolly

We’d like to congratulate Mags Brolly of north London on winning the prize, and also on her excellent choice in festive spirits, including another bottle of Paul John whisky.

It’s not...

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Glengoyne 1995 18 YO Cask #1470 Distillery Exclusive, 54,4 % A good sherry matured whisky can be something really special indeed. Some distilleries do excel in consistently bringing out great sherry matured whiskies; including Glenfarclas, Glen Grant, GlenDronach and Glengoyne. Lots of glens! I visited Glengoyne Distillery recently, and got the chance to try the […]...

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Yes, lots of Irish single malt whiskeys lately, but this one – an Irish single malt 1991 bottled by The Nectar of the Daily Drams – is different because it says ‘peated’ on the label. Now most of the recent releases are linked to Bushmills (and to the Teeling stocks) which have a reputation for using only non-peated barley.

Does this mean it would have been produced by Cooley then (who make the peated Connemara)? Not necessarily… Bushmills did effectively make some lightly peated whiskey in the late 1980’s (as confirmed by Michael Jackson’s 1987 ‘World Guide to Whisky’) and...

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Famous Grouse 16 YO Special Edition, 40 % The Famous Grouse 16 Year Old Double Matured blended Scotch whisky is a limited edition release, which has been finished in a combination of 1st fill Spanish Sherry casks and 1st fill American bourbon casks. The label is designed by the illustrator Vic Lee. The Famous Grouse 16 YO […]...

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Velvet Fig is the latest NAS release from Wemyss . It’s a limited edition blended malt, matured entirely in Oloroso sherry casks . It’s also the first blended malt from Wemyss to be non-chill-filtered and bottled at 46%.

Velvet Fig (46%, Wemyss Malts 2014, blended malt, 6000 btl.)

Nose: starts just slightly meaty and too caramelly majbe, but it clears up nicely, leaving a thoroughly sherried whisky. Lots of blackberries, forest fruit jam, black cherries, Christmas cake and indeed… dried figs. Sticky toffee. Spicy notes too, mainly cinnamon and clove. Mouth: very thick, sweet and spicy. Lots of...

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This is quite unique, Japanese whisky made in Scotland and Canada. I better explain, I think. Back in 1918 the company Chugoku Jozo was established near the city of Hiroshima, Japan. They are mainly a producer of sake and shochu. In 1990 they decided to add whisky to their range of products. However, they were not […]...

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