Beside the nog! gin , Asta Morris also has a new whisky coming up: an Imperial 1995 sourced from the Signatory stocks.

Imperial 18 yo 1995 (52,4%, Signatory Vintage for Asta Morris 2014, bourbon cask #50147)

Nose: nice entrance on aromatic orange peel, which unfolds towards tangerines and lime. Apples, mint. After a while also hints of marzipan and vanilla. Some honey. After some time it adds marshmallows and waxy notes as a bonus to an already convincing nose. Mouth: while you could say the nose showed a rather generic bourbonny Speyside profile, this definitely takes it up...

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The Irishman Cask Strength, NAS, 54 % I have tasted some twenty whiskeys from Ireland over the last couple of years. Some of them have been really nice. And others have not been to my taste. At the Cinderella Whisky Fair 2014 I got the chance to taste three whiskeys from Ireland. The first one was […]...

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Johnnie Walker Gold Label Reserve sits more or less in the middle of the Johnnie Walker range: after Red Label and Black Label it’s the first of the precious medals that represent the upper regions.

It used to be called Johnnie Walker Gold Label 18 Year Old , but the age statement was dropped when the Platinum Label was introduced (with the same age). Now they’ve added Reserve to the name – I guess there’s a marketing rule that every expression should have something unique. I’m afraid losing the age statement also means it has become younger?

The base malts for...

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The Whisky Lounge is rolling into town this maj with their biggest event yet – The London Whisky Weekender. If you’re near London between Friday 16 and Sunday 18 maj, and like whisky, then you should probably come along.

It’s at Oval Space, a venue to the east of the city near to Cambridge Heath station, a few stops from Liverpool Street. It’s a great space and has been a favourite of food and drinks festivals over the past year.

There are four sessions: Friday night from 7pm until midnight, Saturday afternoon from midday until 5pm, Saturday night from 7pm until midnight...

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Old Pulteney 21 YO, 46 % I have not tasted many whiskies from Old Pulteney, and I have no excuse for it. I guess it is time to address this matter. Today I am therefore tasting the Old Pulteney 21 YO. Old Pulteney is a Highland distillery, located on the north coast of Scotland, in […]...

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If you want to know what makes a whiskey a bourbon, you can look it up . Scotch? Look it up . Canadian? Look that up .

What about Icelandic whisky? Well, if you’re Egill and Hali Thorkelsson, two brothers from Iceland, you have to make it up . Being the first producer of whisky in Iceland gives them the crare opportunity to define a whole new category of national whisky. Founded in 2009, the Eimverk Distillery has set out to do just that.

Being first offers many advantages, but it also brings with it some specific challenges. Iceland has...

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Among the new releases from The Nectar of the Daily Drams , there is this Aultmore 2007 . A six years old bourbon cask with such an intense colour and so many red hues. A miracle?

Aultmore 6 yo 2007 (50,3%, The Nectar of the Daily Drams 2014, bourbon cask)

Nose: very aromatic, with some red berries (strawberries and redcurrant) and aromatic citrus (lime, bergamot). Aromatic and slightly bubblegummy. Cotton candy. Juicy malt. A lot of vanilla (marshmallows), leather and hints of white chocolate.  Traces of American bourbon indeed. Some pencil shavings as well. Very attractive and easy-drinking. Mouth:...

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Glenburgie 1992 21 YO Old Particular, 51,5 % Today I present to you a rather new expression from Douglas Laing. The Glenburgie 1992 21 YO Old Particular. This is a single cask release, with a total outturn of 221 bottles. The whisky has been matured on a refill barrel, cask #DL10036. It was distilled in […]...

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Andrea Caminneci , a German of Italian descent, started a wine & spirits company in 2005 and became the importer of Glenglassaugh for Germany. As such, he managed to select and bottle many outstanding Glenglassaugh expressions, the 1972 cask #2896 for example.

His own series C&S Dram contains a long list of single cask whiskies from different distilleries. Recently a sub-series C&S Dram Exceptional was launched for special drams. It’s not surprising that the first release is a Glenglassaugh 1972 .

We don’t know the cask number, but the whisky was distilled 22nd of december 1972, which is the same...

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Svenska Eldvatten West Islay 2003 Heavily Peated, 10 YO, 60,8 % The wonderful guys at Svenska Eldvatten (Peter and Tommy) are at it again. In maj they will release the West Islay 2003 Heavily Peated in Sweden. This whisky was distilled in oktober 2003, and bottled in oktober 2013. Matured in a rum cask (cask #882), […]...

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Balvenie 12 YO Triple Cask, 40 % Jeg har ikke smakt så mange Balvenies, egentlig. Stort sett har jeg imidlertid vært veldig fornøyd. Unntaket er New Wood som jeg skrev om sist. Dagens Balvenie er en 12 år gammel Triple Cask. Betegnelsen Triple Cask innebærer at den har vært lagret på både first-fill bourbon-, refill bourbon- og sherry-tønner. Balvenie 12 […]...

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This Karuizawa 1971 cask #7267 was bottled exclusively for Taiwan. Although the Geisha label says ‘bottled 2012’ it didn’t hit the market until the summer of 2013. At the same time the Karuizawa 1977 cask #4010 was released.

Karuizawa 1971 (62,8%, OB for Taiwan 2012, cask #7267, 467 btl.)

Nose: quite stunning right from the start. These high-strength Karuizawas can be closed right after pouring, but this one is immediately expressive. Typical pipe tobacco and humidors but the fruity notes are really big as well. Strawberry jam, figs, ripe bananas. A fragrant peaches and faint hint of old Sauternes....

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