We whisky drinkers can be a funny bunch. While we are fully aware that the whiskies from Islay are predominantly peaty and smoky, we tend to fixate on these two characteristics and sometimes it is to the detriment of the distilleries which do not display these two characteristics as overtly as their counterparts. Bunnahabhain would […]
Read more "Whisky Review #77: Bunnahabhain Double Header – 12 Years Old vs Ceobanach"This review will focus on the 3 samples which were on offer during the Bruichladdich Micro Provenance 4 livestream and tasting session at the offices of Remy Cointreau Asia on the morning of the 14th of October. The samples are as follows: Cask #361 – distilled in 2008 and matured full term in a French […]
Read more "Whisky Review #73: Bruichladdich Micro Provenance 4 Cask Samples"In the wee hours of the 14th of October, I was invited for a tasting at the offices of Remy Cointreau Asia which was to showcase the 4th edition of the Bruichladdich Micro Provenance series. This was the first time that there was a livestream event hosted in Singapore and it was a case of […]
Read more "Bruichladdich Micro Provenance 4 (LaddieMP4)"This week’s review brings us on the short ferry ride across the Sound of Islay from the isle of Jura to the isle of Islay, where we revisit a distillery which is adored and admonished in equal measure to once again sample one of their core range expressions. Laphroaig is a distillery which needs no […]
Read more "Whisky Review #71: Laphroaig Quarter Cask (Revisited)"Ahh Laphroaig. If there was one word which could accurately describe the whiskies that the distillery produces, it would probably be polarising. People definitely fall into one of two categories when it comes to Laphroaig: Either they love it to death, or hate its guts. This polarisation can be partly attributed to the uninitiated wanting […]
Read more "Whisky Review #67: Laphroaig 11 Years Old (Exquisite Schiphol Exclusive Bottling)"This week’s review focuses on Bowmore and an expression which encapsulates everything that is great about this particular distillery. Those who are familiar with the distillery would be aware that it is the 2nd oldest operating distillery in Scotland (after Glenturret) and that it is the oldest distillery on Islay, having been founded in 1779 […]
Read more "Whisky Review #56: Bowmore 15 Years Old Darkest"And so we return to Islay and more specifically, Laphroaig, to review one of their expressions which has been on the market for some time now: the Laphroaig Select Cask. As has been the position of late, the distillery has released a number of NAS whiskies over the past few years alongside their core range […]
Read more "Whisky Review #52: Laphroaig Select Cask"This week’s review focuses on a distillery that readers will be quite familiar with: Ardbeg! I love Ardbeg. They produce some phenomenal whiskies and their place on the higher end of the peat spectrum also endears them to smokeheads around the world. The 10 Years Old expression also tends to win new fans faster when […]
Read more "Whisky Review #46: Ardbeg Auriverdes"Another week, another review. And somehow it inevitably comes back to Bruichladdich. If anything, this is a distillery that knows exactly how to make great whisky (and long may it continue!) The readers of this blog will know all too well just how much I love Bruichladdich. It is a distillery that goes about its […]
Read more "Whisky Review #31: Bruichladdich The Organic Scottish Barley"Bunnahabhain is one of those distilleries that many people would not have heard much of, let alone tried. But to say that it is a hidden gem would probably be a huge understatement. This picturesque Islay distillery which counts Caol Ila as its closest neighbour has been around since 1881 (the same year of establishment […]
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