WhiskyCritic took some time out of the busy schedule to test a couple samples of Aberlour 14-Year-Old – a Highland malt Scotch whisky of some repute. Upon WC’s first taste, it was noted that Aberlour 14 was decent – not without its charm – but mostly unspectacular. However, upon further tastings, WC found that Aberlour […]
The 2017 Spirit of Speyside: Distilled festival is in a mere two weeks and lest you think it is just another festival honoring whisky – which would not be altogether a bad thing – think again, there will be plenty of food, specifically local food, at the festival in Elgin, Scotland, on September 1-2, 2017. […]
Life is good if you live in the UK today. First, you live in the vicinity of most of the world’s best whisky and second, now you can call it your own with Pernod Ricard’s crafty marketing ploy allowing you to imprint your name or a personal message on labels of their famous brands of […]
Be prepared, you are about to hear more about Aberlour. The Speyside single malt whisky Aberlour is the top-rated Scotch whisky in France but it is the best-kept secret for most of the rest of the world. That is about to change as the whisky will be the subject of a marketing campaign to bring […]
Before I begin the review I would like to direct any fellow history fans to my review of Aberlour 10, as I wrote a paragraph or two about the distillery history there and as such I don’t want to waste valuable Internet space (I’ve heard it’s running out) with duplicate information. Today I’ll be writing […]
Most whisky producers take pride in their long history, and will thus fight to subtract another year from their est. date (some list the day the construction of the distillery begun, rather than when it first opened, for example), Aberlour, however, have gone in the opposite direction. They first opened for business in 1826 but […]