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English Harbour is a top-quality molasses-based rum distilled by the Antigua Distillery and named after the town on the island briefly inhabited by our own Horatio Nelson during the 18th century.

Distilled in 1981 and bottled in september 2006 – this is the oldest rum from the Antigua distillery. It was matured in used Jack Daniels barrels. About two pounds of oak chips are added to each barrel to provide more colour and flavour. Only 600 bottles are released each year.

English Harbour 25 yo 1981 (40%, OB 2006)

Nose: complex nose, very integrated with lots of tiny...

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Clynelish 1997 14 YO Archives Inaugural Release, 53,9 % Whiskybase.com is a very good whisky site, and they also have their own shop, and bottle their own whiskies under the brand Archives. I have now tasted the Clynelish 1997 14 YO Archives Inaugural Release. It is long since sold out from Whiskybase, but luckily the […]...

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A trio of Littlemill expressions was added to the Archives series in a very short timespan. This Littlemill 1989 is a joint bottling with The CasQueteers , a Dutch group of whisky enthusiasts constantly looking for the best casks (or parts of casks). They regularly sit together to try cask samples, they also buy new make spirit and split the costs when a certain whisky is bottled.

Littlemill 24 yo 1989 (53%, Archives 2014, joint bottling with CasQueteers, bourbon hogshead #42, 178 btl.)

Nose: typical Littlemill fruitiness. Peach, pear, liters of apple juice. Moving towards tropical fruits as well....

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Bunnahabhain 1976 36 YO Hart Brothers, 45,5 % Today I am presenting a rather old whisky from the Islay distillery Bunnahabhain. The Bunnahabhain 1976 36 YO has been bottled by the IB Hart Brothers, and is imported to Sweden by Whiskytaste Sweden. You can buy this whisky at Systembolaget at SEK 2600 (item number 84024). […]...

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Caol Ila 1984 29 YO Cadenhead’s Small Batch, 55,5 % Wow! I just wanna say it again: Wow! Cadenhead and Mark Watt has done it again. This is an amazing whisky. I attended Cinderella Whisky Fair 2014 with my husband. We tasted the Caol Ila 1984 29 YO from Cadenhead’s Small Batch series. The whisky was […]...

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Like the Port Ellen 1983 , this Glen Grant 1972 was bottled by Maltbarn in 2012 but held back until recently. Like the neighbouring Caperdonich 1972, it’s one of the old delights that seem to have disappeared from the market almost entirely.

Glen Grant 40 yo 1972 (51,6%, Maltbarn 2012, sherry cask, 49 btl.)

Nose: the joys of whisky. Different kinds of fruit jams (apricots and greengages), mixed with wonderful beehive notes (pollen, beeswax, honeycomb) and fine polished oak. Very light mineral notes, as well as a minty freshness. Quite brilliant. Mouth: spicy, with a faint oaky bitterness, but...

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Another day, and another Scotch distillery project appears. No doubt funding will come from an issue of founders’ bonds or future cask sales, and a diverse group of private investors, while early income will be predicated on sales of gin and new-make spirit. You get the picture.

So we look at the case of Mossburn Distillers Ltd. with a slightly seen-it-all-before eye. We chat with chief executive Neil Mathieson, who outlines two distillery projects, one on the Isle of Skye and another near Jedburgh, in the Scottish Borders. Talk turns to likely expenditure; and Mathieson mentions that the Borders plans...

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Today I am presenting the second half of the private “super tasting” I had a few weeks back. I tasted three Brora and three Port Ellen, half blind. So I knew the whiskies, but not in which order they were presented, and not which one was Brora and which was a Port Ellen. In other […]...

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