I recently had the pleasure of trying a blend which, to me, was completely new. How I hadn’t heard of it before I don’t know, either way it was a pleasant surprise to find an Islay blend priced at a highly affordable less than $3 for 16 ounces in an otherwise quite expensive pub! The […]
Wake up, wake up! After two days of delicious whisky, scrumptious food, and outstanding company, we have only one more distillery visit ahead of us. Day three sees our arrival at Knockdhu (anCnoc), where in the rain we are greeted by distillery manager Gordon Bruce and his two friendly dogs. The first sight to hit […]
Jura 10 was, I believe, the first whisky produced upon the reopening of the distillery a handful or so of decades ago (that rhymes, by the way). The symbol it carries is apparently of ancient Celtic design and is the sign of “birth, beginning and the forces of nature” (that’s straight from Jura, that). Fascinating […]
Grab your drink and drink up, because we’ve got another distillery visit to complete before the day is over! The second day of our bloggers’ whisky tour saw not one (having already visited Balblair) but two distillery visits – the second being Speyburn. I really enjoyed our visit to Speyburn as it was completely different […]
“You lucky, lucky bastard.” That’s what I imagine most of you will be thinking in about a minute, once you’ve read what the mailman handed me a little while back. Well, I say a little while, it was actually about a month and a bit – which makes this my new personal record in lazy […]
Day two of the trip started out similarly to day one: another early alarm (though not quite as early as day one), and another exceedingly unspectacular May morning. This time around, however, I was in a hotel rather than my room – don’t ask me its name or location, I was every bit the passive […]
Oh dearest, dearest pocket. I sincerely hope you can forgive me once more for digging too deep, collecting the very last you had to offer, for no reason other than my own decadence. Forgive, and recover. I’m sure most, or at least many, fellow whisky lovers of less than unlimited means will have been in […]
My alarm went off at 6:05, and after a mere five hours sleep – far short of the eight I so desperately need – I was greeted by an incredibly mediocre May morning. Normally this would all add up to one very unhappy, if not downright moody, Martin: but not today. Ahead of me lay […]
