There is a beauty in the single cask releases that asks for your attention and demands you open your mind in order to understand what is happening whilst the whisky sits patiently awaiting its release.. As we all know the wood does its magic over a period of time, allowing all those aromas and flavours…
Tag: 2008
GlenAllachie 13 Year Old 2008 – Cask Strength Collection
They say the winter months have us reaching for either the peated drams or those big sherry bombs, for me it is the sherry bombs. Glenallachie is not always the distillery id pick when looking at a new bottle but this one just whispered to me and so the rest is history as they say…..
Deanston 12 Year Old 2008 Oloroso Cask Matured
Not so many years ago Deanston single malt whisky was not spoken about with quite the same regard as it is today. The loyal following this distillery has found is no surprise to me as the whisky produced is of a very high level and is always consistent in quality. The distillery itself is located…
Edradour 12 Year Old 2008 – cask 689
Some distilleries excite you like a kid in a sweet shop, others are good enough to put a smile on the face and others just seem to underwhelm. Edradour for me is a strange one, I love the whisky, i love the style and i always look out for those Ibisco decanter style bottles from…
Glen Moray 10 Year Old – Douglas Laing
Douglas Laing Douglas Laing for those of you who don’t know are a Glasgow based independent bottler who pride themselves in bottling some of Scotland’s finest single malts, not to mention some Remarkable blended malts, blended whisky and single grains.. Initially founded in 1948 by Fred Douglas Laing after serving his time in the Royal…
Edradour 2008 Bourbon
Edradour Anyone who has visited the Edradour distillery will be aware of just how beautiful this little distillery is, the white walls set off with the red doors and surrounded by the beautiful Scottish countryside, trees and the babbling brook that meanders through the distillery grounds just make this an idealistic setting.. Originally founded in…
Miltonduff 10 year old – Claxton’s
Miltonduff Officially founded in 1824 when Andrew Peary and Robert Bain obtained a license for a property that had previously operated as an illicit distillery known as Milton distillery. Over the years the distillery changes hands several times and in 1936 the distillery is transferred to Hiram Walker Gooderham and Warts who later transferred administration…
Benromach 2008 Cask Strength
Benromach The Benromach distillery company was founded back in 1898 by Duncan MacCallum and F.W.Brickmann who started construction on the distillery in the same year before starting to produce spirit in 1900, unfortunately due to lack of money the distillery also shut in the same year. In 1911 Benromach was bought by Harvey McNair and…
Glen Moray Single Cask #1164
Glen Moray In an age where bottles of whisky are fetching astonishing figures, selling as investments rather than something to be drunk and arriving in the finest Lalique glass decanters, distilleries boasting long lost or rediscovered casks that have suddenly been located in dark dusty corners, there is a distillery quietly getting on with what…
Ledaig 10 years old 2008 – Claxton’s
Tobermory distillery ( this distillery produces both Tobermory and the peated Ledaig ) was established back in 1788 by the British Fisheries Society in a small farming settlement, built around the medieval church at the top of the hill. Then in the 1790’s an inspired a bold new vision by John Sinclair, a local kelp…
BenRiach 2008 single cask #5807, Batch 15.
Batch 15 from the Benriach distillery certainly showed off the vast variation of maturing Whisky they had to offer, port pipes, moscatel hogsheads, sauternes barriques, rum barrels and virgin oak all feature within this batch 15 release and when you add bourbon maturation into the equation and finished then you begin to realise the versatility of…
Glenburgie 9 yo (Claxton’s)
Claxtons, the Yorkshire based independent bottlers continue into 2017 with another single cask release.. This Glenburgie 9 yo from a single hogsheads cask is of course natural colour and NCF, bottled at a cask strength of 57.8% abv you can’t really ask for much more.. Glenburgie is not a whisky that we come across everyday…
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