Ardgowan Launches Clydebuilt Single Malts
Ardgowan Distillery has launched a new collection of six Speyside single malts – via their Clydebuilt brand label – featuring three small-batch releases distilled in 2012 and three single-cask bottlings aged for 12 years. Ardgowan’s Clydebuilt label was launched in 2019 and named after the shipbuilding industry alongside the nearby Firth of Clyde. All six […]
Jim Beam Lines Up Lineage
Jim Beam has released Jim Beam Lineage Batch Number Two – the second installment of their Lineage series, co-created by Beam family members Fred and Freddie Noe – and honoring generational Beam roots. The new 15-year-old Jim Beam Lineage Batch Number Two is Kentucky straight bourbon matured in charred white oak barrels, bottled at 55.5% […]
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Rock Hill Farms Single Barrel
Rock Hill Farms Single Barrel bourbon by Buffalo Trace Distillery was rated by the Washingtonian Magazine as “The World’s Greatest Bourbon” in 1995. Price ranges anywhere from $40.00-$60.00, so this can be an expensive bourbon. I was able to score a bottle for $38.00, but having tried it I can say I would easily pay more for this one, and probably will in the future!
Glayva
Here’s one for anyone with a sweet tooth: Glayva whisky liqueur, which claims to be the best liqueur in the world – I’m not sure I’d go that far (in fact I am sure that I wouldn’t), but it is pretty good! In general liqueur terms I personally prefer the whisk(e)y cream variety, though that could very well be down to the fact that I’ve had far more of it. […]
Highland Park 18 Year Old
The time during which the Edinburgh fringe festival is on – just under a month, for those of you who are unfamiliar with it, of non-stop madness (there are some 2,500 different shows, most of which run 6 days a week, and an endless number of visitors) – is both tiring and invigorating, fun and soul-destroying, not to mention ridden with borderline alcohol abuse for the vast majority of its […]
Heaven Hill Old Style
If you’re looking for a bargain price bourbon, you may be interested in Heaven Hill Old Style. Heaven Hill is very cheap at just $9.00 a bottle, but you’ll notice something which stands out about it right from the off, which is that it’s bottled in glass and not plastic, despite the low price. Heaven Hill Distilleries is based in Kentucky and is family owned and operated since 1935. They […]
Sct. Clemens Brewery (Denmark, Aarhus)
I was invited to my friends in Denmark over the New Year, Aarhus to be precise, and decided to go for it – I’m growing a bit tired of the Edinburgh Hogmanay, anyway. Thanks to our Irish friends I managed to get there quite cheaply, which is always a bonus. That said, I think I’ll stay away from Ryan Air from now on – but don’t worry, I won’t bore […]
Elmer T Lee Single Barrel
One bourbon I’d been reading about repeatedly all over the web is the Elmer T. Lee Single Barrel, named after the Master Distiller by the same name who joined the Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky in the mid 20th century. Since what I’d been reading was praise on every account, my curiosity was naturally stoked, and I finally caved in and bought a bottle. $28 isn’t cheap, so needless […]
Dailuaine 27 Year Old
If you’re looking for a Christmas whisky but don’t enjoy Glenfarclas 15 – which is arguably the most Christmas-y drink you will find – I’d recommend you keep reading, because Dailuaine 27 from Master of Malt is a good contender for the honorable title of Christmas Dram of the Year 2011 – which I just made up now, and for which, if I’m honest, there are currently no other runners. […]
Johnnie Walker Green Label
Johnnie Walker is without doubt one of the most well-known whisky blends in the world, and for good reason; their whiskies never fail to offer not only good value for money, but indeed high quality regardless of price. For those of you who like to read a bit of distillery history with your review, I would recommend that you check out my review of the Johnnie Walker Black Label as […]
Jim Beam Black Aged 8 Years
This is an amusing review from Ryan, our bourbon specialist. Enjoy. When poet legend Robert Frost wrote, “Nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold…” , he wasn’t only talking about nature. I have the sneaking suspicion he might have had a bourbon in his hand at the time. Now the holiday season has fallen upon us with a nip in the air and a nip on the […]
Blair Athol 12 Year Old
Located in the lovely town of Pitlochry, Blair Athol is, in my opinion, a distillery that doesn’t get the attention it deserves. Even I have taken longer than I should to review one of their expressions, so I thought it about time to do so now. Thus I proudly present to you: Blair Athol 12 year old, a fine drink indeed. Diving straight into the aroma, it presents a very […]
Islay Series #3: Laphroaig
From Bruichladdich to the town Bowmore, this series outlining my recent trip to Islay will now detail our visit to the Laphroaig distillery – which, appropriately, was the second distillery we visited on our tour. The drive from Bowmore to Laphroaig took in the area of twenty minutes (which seems to be a common theme when driving around Islay) and brought us right through the peat bogs. Now, the peat […]
Glenfarclas Movember Whisky
Most of you will already be familiar with the ‘movember’ concept; the basic idea is that during the month of November, men grow silly (for the most part) mustaches and get sponsored for doing so – a bit like a “fun run”, except for the fact that movember is actually fun. The money raised goes towards men’s health issues, with focus on prostate and other cancers. In honor of this, […]
Ardbeg Uigeadail
Boring, meek, shallow, average, foul – these are all antonyms to the words that would best describe Ardbeg’s outstanding Uigeadail expression, which sits before me as I write this very review, smothering me with its luxurious peaty smoke. This isn’t the first Ardbeg review I’ve written (keen readers may remember by previous brown-nose reviews of Blasda, Renaissance and 10yr old and once again I am going to end up sounding […]
Renault Carte d’Argent XO
Whenever I review something other than whisky I feel the need to explain myself. As such, I was going to start this post by saying how, while whisky is king, it can occasionally be nice to tickle your taste buds with other drinks as well; having said that at least two handfuls of times already, however, I would feel silly doing so again. So, from here on out, I will […]
Mackmyra Reserve 3 Year Old
As regular readers of my little blog may remember, I have family in Sweden and as such I tend to visit at least once a year. Heck, we’re such good friends by now, you and I, that I suppose I may as well reveal that it is my dear parents who have moved here – that with one of them being Swedish, thus making me a half breed, they’ve retired […]
Old Pulteney 21 y.o. – 2012 whisky of the year in Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible
Received this press-release that I thought was worth sharing with you. I’ve yet to try the 21 year old expression (I suspect it might be hard to come by these days though), but I found the 12 y.o. very interesting. Old Pulteney 21 Year Old scored a record-equalling 97.5/100 points and secured the World Whisky of the Year title in Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible 2012, the 9th edition of the […]
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