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Master of Malt / Maverick Drinks has a new sub-brand called Darkness! It’s a range of sherry finished whiskies, “sherry monsters” if you like.

To get this dark sherry profile, the whiskies are finished for three months in 50-litre Octave casks.

Some of them, like the Ardbeg 21yo PX or the Macallan 15yo PX , are actually not very dark at all, but they’re said to have taken over the typical sherry profile nonetheless. Of course it depends on the type of maturation it received before the finishing period.

We’ll start with the darkest of all, a ...

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Mackmyra Moment Drivved (Driftwood), NAS, 51,2 % The whisky I am presenting today is from Mackmyras series Moment. These are special, limited edition cask releases. They are released at cask strength. The Mackmyra Moment Drivved was released in 2011. “Drivved” is Swedish for Driftwood. The whisky has been matured in an underground warehouse the old […]...

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Auchentoshan 15 yo 1998 (52,2%, Kintra 2014, bourbon hogshead #102347)

Nose: starts light and clean, citrusy with barley notes. Hay. Lowlands, right. Becomes creamier and sweeter after a while, with added notes of strawberries and pineapple candy. Hints of marshmallows. There’s also a dusty note, slightly grassy, with some smoky undertones. Mouth: sweetness up front (fruit jellies) but some grassy notes and lemon zest take over quite soon. Then some bitterness comes out as well as a certain herbalness. Ginger, aniseed and liquorice roots. Briny notes and stranger hints of rubber gloves as well. Finish: medium long, on apple...

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SMWS 129.2 Humbugs in a horse’s nose-bag, 4 YO, 61,6 % Scotch Maltwhisky Society (SMWS) recently released the 129.2 Humbugs in a horse’s nose-bag. This is their second barrel from the Islay distillery Kilchoman. This is a very young whisky, just four years old. The whisky was distilled 2007-12-13 and bottled in 2012. It […]...

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The Irishman Founder’s Reserve, NAS, 40 % On Wednesday I wrote about The Irishman Cask Strength, which was a very nice whiskey. I also tasted The Irishman Founder’s Reserve at the Cinderella Whisky Fair 2014. The Irishman Founder’s Reserve was previously sold under the name The Irishman 70, and maj still be found under this […]...

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Paul John Classic Select Cask, NAS, 55,2 % We have been fans of Amrut whisky from India for a few years already. Now we have also tried a whisky from John Distilleries. The company is headquartered in Bangalore, same as Amrut, but the John single malt distillery is located in Goa. The Paul John Classic Select […]...

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Another in our occasional series of Tweet-style interviews. As always, it’s 140 characters or less (we don’t count the spaces) in the answers from the Glenfarclas brand ambassador. George Grant is the sixth generation of the owning family to work at Glenfarclas.

Here we go: what’s the view from your office window?

Glenfarclas No.1 Duty Free Warehouse door, in our beautiful red.

Sounds cheerful! What’s happening at Glenfarclas this spring?

At this rate, we will be doing a rain dance. Winter never happened at Glenfarclas.

Soggy for the visitors, then. But good for the distillation. You’re in a family business....

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Fary Lochan Efterår, 3 YO, 48 % Today I am presenting the first release from a small Danish distiller by the name Fary Lochan. It is located in the middle of Denmark, and they have been producing whisky since december 2009. The first cask was put in the basement for maturation on New Years Eve […]...

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