1974 was a good year for the Highland single malt Scotch whisky industry but 1975 was a very good year – specifically for anCnoc – who has released a 1975 Vintage that was produced from a mere three casks at anCnoc’s Knockdhu Distillery. Those three casks were both Spanish and American oak casks that are […]
In honor of celebrated novelist George Orwell, Jura has released its Jura 1984 Vintage single malt Scotch whisky. The whisky touts a 44% alcohol content [88 proof] and spent time maturing in three different casks – American White Oak, Amoroso sherry and Apostoles Oloroso sherry. Orwell – whose real name was Eric Blair – wrote […]
The Glenrothes Vintage 1992 from Berry Bros. & Rudd has been revealed to an unsuspecting public. The Glenrothes 1992 is a Speyside single malt Scotch whisky and second of the Vintage 1992 series from the distillery [the first being launched in 2004]. This second version has an extra decade of aging and is bottled at […]
800 casks were said to make up the 2002 vintage of Evan Williams Single Barrel, so WC must have won the lottery and received the black sheep of the cask family. The not-so-clever acronym for Evan Williams Single Barrel is EWSB and, coincidentally, that is akin to the first sound that emanated from our mouths […]