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Caol Ila 1980 30 YO Douglas Laing Old Malt Cask, 50 % Vanligvis liker jeg Caol Ila veldig godt, både destilleriets egne utgivelser og utgivelser fra Independent Bottlers. Sist jeg var på Dr. Jekylls i Oslo, benyttet jeg anledningen til å smake en ny (for meg) Caol Ila fra Douglas Laing sin serie Old Malt […]...

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St Magdalene 1982 31 YO Finest Collection, 53,5 % This is a lowland whisky from the now closed St. Magdalene distillery. This whisky was tasted full blind recently, and the notes are from that tasting. The St Magdalene 1982 31 YO Finest Collection is bottled by independent bottler Hart Brothers, and imported to Sweden by […]...

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Despite the title, this isn’t about a Game of Thrones or Ice Road Truckers episode, and it’s certainly not a patriotic Braveheart-esque call to arms about Scottish independence. Having said that, what I am going to write about is an American distillery which sees itself as a bit of a revolutionary, which is pretty apt [...]...

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Buffalo Trace has a large number of brands and every one of them has several expressions. It proves the industry obsession with individuality, small batch releases and nice labeling. A virtually unlimited pool of flavour profiles and marketing opportunities.

Colonel Edmund Haynes Taylor, Jr. is widely considered one of the founding fathers of the bourbon industry, fighting for the Bottled-in-Bond Act of 1897, nearly three decades after he purchased what is now called Buffalo Trace Distillery .

The E.H. Taylor, Jr . collection contains a Small Batch version, this Single Barrel release, a Barrel Proof expression, Straight Rye, Old Fashioned...

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The Brazilian football team maj have struggled to convince so far in the World Cup, but there’s no denying the spectacle their fans have brought to the tournament – a blast of colour, noise and passion.

The Brazilians like their drinks with a bit of style and flair, too, which is where their national spirit, cachaça , comes in. It’s best known in the classic Brazilian cocktail, the Caipirinha (‘little countryside drink’), the deliciously drinkable combo of cachaça, muddled lime, sugar syrup and ice, but there’s more to cachaça than that.

It’s a surprisingly versatile spirit, and given that it’s...

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Box Whisky The Festival 2014, 3 years and 3 months old, 53,5% Setting the scene for this tasting might hint at a bit of a positive bias about this whisky, but I will try to be as fair as possible. Box Whisky The Festival 2014 was released for pre-order at the Box Whisky Festival last Saturday […]...

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Nytt whiskyslipp på polet, fredag 4.juli 2014. Det er mye bra som serveres denne gangen, så her får man virkelig noe å bruke feriepengene på. Mine favoritter i dette slippet er Ardbeg Auriverdes, gammel Caol Ila og ung Laffe fra Coopers Choice-serien, Smögen Primör, North Highland 1995 og Vintage 1979 fra Svenska Eldvatten, Macallan Ruby og […]...

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Remember NOG! – the gin matured by Asta Morris ? Back then we already mentioned there would be a second release soon. Here it is.

It’s the same distillate but matured in a different cask ( BenRiach this time) for a slightly longer time.

 

N.O.G. gin
(46%, Asta Morris, batch n°2)

Neat Nose: less assertive than #1. The lemon and minty top notes are muted and the profile is a little warmer. It seems more compact, majbe more complex but with the flavours closer together. Mouth: sweeter than expected (orange), with some boozy heat and a big spiciness (pepper,...

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Distilleries come in all shapes and sizes and I recently took a trip to one of Scotland’s smallest:  Benromach .

Located in the town of Forres in the north of Speyside, the distillery dates to 1898. One of the victims of the distillery closures of 1983 (which saw eight distilleries including Port Ellen and St Magdalene cease production due to lack of demand), it lay dormant for 10 years before being rescued by independent bottler  Gordon & MacPhail in 1993, with production recommencing five years later.

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Inchgower 1999 12 YO Douglas Laing Advance Sample for OMC, 50 % My very first Inchgower! It is always interesting to taste something from a new distillery, new to me that is. Well, actually it is always interesting to taste whisky. Todays whisky is Inchgower 1999 12 YO from Douglas Laing Advance Sample for OMC. It was […]...

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This is an old Bunnahabhain 1968 released in 2012 in the Sea Life series by The Whisky Agency . I don’t recall other sherry butts for this vintage.

 

 

Bunnahabhain 43 yo 1968
(47%, The Whisky Agency ‘Sea Life’ 2012, refill sherry butt, 498 btl.)

Nose: fruity and honeyed. The fruits are more indigenous than tropical: pears, plums, figs, apricots. Indeed “sherry fruits”, including a vegetal, slightly dirty aroma which takes away some of the magic. Light resinous notes, floral notes and leafy notes. A little leather in the distance. Very elegant, a slightly drier, sherried version rather than the tropical...

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Bunnahabhain Dràm an Stiùreadair, 10 YO, 56,7 % This is the second bottling that Bunnahabhain released for the feis Ile 2014. The first one was reviewed here a few days ago. The name of Bunnahabhain Dràm an Stiùreadair certainly is a mouthful. The name translates to “The Helmsman’s Dram”. This is a peated Bunnahabhain, at about […]...

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