The Glenmorangie Company Preps Ardbeg House For 2025 Opening
The Glenmorangie Company is preparing for the opening – currently scheduled for Autumn 2025 – of their new Ardbeg House hotel, near Port Ellen, a few miles from the Ardbeg Distillery on the island of Islay in Scotland. Formerly named Glenmorangie House, the Glenmorangie Company’s Ardbeg House is being described as a world-class whisky and […]
Santa Fe Spirits Rebrand Line of Whiskies
New Mexico-based American single malt producer Santa Fe Spirits has re-branded some of their whiskies – replacing their line of Colkegan single malts with a new look and name – The Original Santa Fe Whiskey – in an effort to elevate sense of terroir and regionality. Santa Fe Spirits was founded in 2010 by Colin […]
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Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old
Dalwhinnie 15 year old is considered by a few to be a bit of a lady’s drink, not quite suitable as a man’s dram. How it earned this reputation I do not know, though I would suppose that it is due to a combination of its mild mannered characteristics and the label being just a tad too neat. That doesn’t mean that any man ordering it in a Scottish pub […]
Bushmills Original
I was recently fortunate enough to be contacted by the good people over at Bushmills, offering me a free bottle of their original expression. I figured that the least I could do in return would be to write a little review of what I consider to be Ireland’s version of Whyte & Mackay (a favourite Scottish blend of mine) – in the sense that they both produce fairly priced, good […]
Whisky Burger
With spring and summer on the doorstep, I thought I would share a couple of my favorite Whisky BBQ recipes. I’m going to start out by writing a series of 4 articles with one recipe in each, starting with a Whisky burger, then moving on to a delicious whisky marinade (for steaks), followed by my very own Whisky Caramelized Bacon recipe (snack/burger topping) and finally a whisky based desert! I […]
Student Whisky
I was recently asked by one of my blog readers to give advice on good whisky or two for students – that is, a suggestion that won’t cost too much yet offers good value and taste. After having thought about it for a while, I’ve come up with a couple of names. Oh, and I should mentioned that the suggested budget was about $30, though I took the liberty of […]
Ardbeg 10 Year Old
You may have heard of them before, a little distillery called Ardbeg on the coast of Islay. As I was talking to my dear friend a day or two ago, I mentioned that I was writing a review of Ardbeg Blasda. A good memory being one of his finer qualities, he asked why I’d chosen to review Renaissance and Blasda, but not the more common 10 year old expression. The […]
Johnnie Walker Black Label
Johnnie Walker is a firm favorite of many novice and intermediate whisky drinkers alike – though I haven’t come across many whisky enthusiasts who hold it as a favorite. Personally, I find it to be a perfectly good every day whisky and one which I’ve had on more than one occasion. In the same price category, though, I generally prefer the Whyte & Mackay 13 year old.
Blanton’s Original
Having previously reviewed two of the cheaper expressions from the Buffalo Trace Distillery, I thought it about time to give some attention to my favorite; Blanton’s Original Single Barrel. While you can find some general distillery information in the Ancient Age post, I don’t think any review of Blanton’s would be complete without the mention of its own historic bragging point – it was, according to their website, the worlds’ […]
Whisky Cocktail: Rob Roy
You will notice that I’m going to cut down on my incessant rambling for most of these recipes. Unless there’s a particularly interesting history behind the drink, or some other anecdote, I will try to be fairly to-the-point. As any visitor to Scotland will be all but too aware, keeping things short is an exercise in extreme self control to most Scotsmen.
Ardbeg Blasda
Out driving my Mazda, I went past an Asda, I stopped for some pasta, But spotted some Blasda! Now home from Asda, Getting tipsy quite fast(a). Alright, I may not have a career writing lyrics, poetry or rap (though I do think the above would make a good rap tune, compared to what they’re normally spitting out), I’ll admit! And it may not be true to that I went to […]
Create your own Bushmills Whiskey?
Following the trend of recent “dream job” announcements, Bushmills Whiskey is offering one lucky whiskey aficionado a chance to work with master distiller Colum Egan and his team for a month to create his or her own blend of Irish whiskey. As Telegraph.co.uk states: The winner will spend a month on Northern Ireland’s north Antrim coast, near the Giant’s Causeway, where Bushmills has distilled whiskey since James I authorized it […]
Bell’s
This will be one of the shortest reviews you are going to see on my little blog, in the sense that not a lot will be said about the whisky. The only reason for my writing it in the first place is that I was in Waitrose earlier today, browsing their wine section (I picked up a bottle of Font de Michelle Châteauneuf for $30 – not bad!), when I […]
Glenfiddich 12 Year Old
The name means “Valley of the Deer”, and the deer portrayed on the bottle and packaging is, perhaps, the most well known in the world. I certainly can’t think of one more commonly seen. Glenfiddich is, as you will probably be well aware, one of the best selling whiskys in the world. This, I suppose, is both a blessing and a curse for the distiller – while their sales are […]
Whisky Cocktail: Whiskey Sour
While most whisk(e)y* is, in my opinion, best consumed neat – that doesn’t mean that whisk(e)y cocktails are, in any way, a bad thing. Quite the opposite is true, in fact! There are literally tons of fantastic whisk(e)y cocktail recipes out there and I would certainly recommend that you try a few, should you be the type of person who generally enjoys a cocktail or two every once in a […]
Port Askaig 17 Year Old
Here’s a post that will be slightly different to most others; I’m not actually going to be reviewing a whisky that I’ve tried. Instead, I’m going to share with you what I’ve found out about a very young new player on the market; Port Askaig. Never heard of it? Neither had I, until recently. What you probably will have heard of, though, is The Whisky Exchange, the massive whisky retailer. […]
70 Year Old Mortlach Released
Rather than a review, this is just a short article on a piece of news you may find interesting. Only a few weeks ago, the world’s oldest single malt whisky was released by Gordon & MacPhail – established as a grocer and spirit merchant in 1895, G&M have ever since bought handpicked casks from distillers and created their own blends, as well as bottled single malts under licence for world […]
Mackmyra The First Edition
”Det här, Skotten, det är whisky!” (This, Scotsman, this is Whisky!) she said, producing a stylish looking bottle. The label was covered in foreign scribbling, the content a very light golden. “That,” I replied, “remains to be seen”. What my Swedish relative had brought over, a year or so ago, was a bottle of Mackmyra – The First Edition. For weeks before her visit she’d made various attempts to convince […]
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