Blackadder Peat Reek Raw Cask 2009, NAS, 60,6 % One of my other favourite whiskies (in addition to North Highland 1995 Svenska Eldvatten) at Cinderella Whisky Fair was Blackadder Peat Reek Raw Cask. We attended a masterclass with Robin Tucek, Blackadder himself, and he had brought along some very nice whiskies. My husband will share a […]...

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Stratheden – The Lost Distillery Quite recently a new whisky company appeared on my radar; The Lost Distillery Company. Their business concept is to bring life to long lost distilleries. They have obtained the rights to twenty odd distilleries, and have started the meticulous work of researching what kind of whisky they once produced. They […]...

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Spirit of Hven Urania – First Release, NAS, 45 % Time now for the second Swedish whisky in my Nordic Whisky review series. This time I am looking at Spirit of Hven Urania – First release. This is the first single malt from the distillery Spirit of Hven. It was released in Sweden in mars […]...

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Agder Audny Series 1 – Single Cask, 3 YO, 46 % Agder Brenneri released the first ever Norwegian single Maltwhisky just before Christmas of 2012. This is a historic moment, in my view. I think it is high time that Norway had a whisky distillery selling single malt. The Swedes and Danes have quite a […]...

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Caol Ila 12 YO, 43 % Thank you all for helping The Ladies’ Share decide the tasting order for our meeting last week! We got a lot of suggestions…and they were all different. We had to make the final decision ourselves, which was a good learning experience. I guess a couple of us did not […]...

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Braunstein 13:1, 8 YO, 46 % The Danish distillery Bryghuset Braunstein has been around for quite some time. For the first few years they were a brewery only, but as we entered the new millennium they started distilling whisky. Braunstein is owned and run by two brothers; Michael Dines Braunstein is the sales manager, and […]...

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Teerenpeli Kaski Distiller’s Choice, NAS, 43 % The second review in my new series covering Nordic whiskies, is the Teerenpeli Kaski Distiller’s Choice. Teerenpeli is a Finnish whisky distillery, and I have been fortunate enough to visit them once. They operate out of the cellar of a restaurant in the town of Lahti. The same […]...

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Smögen Primör, 3 YO, 63,7 % This is the first review in a new series here at Whisky Saga, where we will take a closer look at whiskies from Nordic distilleries. We are starting off with a whisky that premiered in Sweden just days ago; on mars 13, 2014. The whisky is called Smögen Primör, […]...

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Hi, and welcome! Whisky Saga is a new whisky blog, and at the same time it’s not a new whisky blog. This might take a bit of explaining, so please let me elaborate just a little bit. Who are we? Whisky Saga is my wife, Tone Øhrbom, and me, Thomas Øhrbom. I have written the […]...

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Four Laphroaigs with Vicky Stevens I had a really good time during a Laphroaig-tasting with Visitor Centre Manager Vicky Stevens at Laphroaig in januari 2014 (Whisky-Meet in Bergen). I tasted four Laphroaigs this evening. It was incredible to get the chance talk to Vicky Stevens in such a small gathering (only seven attendants in total). […]...

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