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There is quite a catalogue of the main core range of Aberlour’s developing on the blog. That must mean they have some good stuff in there range or I have developed a fan-boy status. The other reviews are: Aberlour 10 Year Old Aberlour 12 Year Old Double Cask Matured Aberlour A’Bunadh Batch 58 After this […]
One of the YouTube channels I subscribe to is the Whisky Wednesday channel which each Wednesday (following so far)? releases a short video reviewing a whisky. Last night was the turn of the Glen Scotia 25 Year Old which I have also previously reviewed. You should definitely give the video a watch and subscribe to […]
Every year just before Christmas there is a mini event of which many people make an awfully large fuss. Not Halloween no but the “unveiling” of Jim Murrays latest Bible. A large part of this is the awards for best whisky in a suite of different categories. The producers love this because it can drive […]
One of the previous articles on here looked at why wine can mature in the bottle but whisky does not. The article can be found at Why does wine mature in the bottle but whisky does not? and at the end, I mention that once a bottle of whisky is opened the flavours can change […]
In the modern western world news and facts have never been so widely available and easily accessible. This has led to various countries including the UK to the politic awakening of millions of people, mostly the younger generations. So while there have been good effects from social media and the internet generally it has also […]
After over 100 articles on this blog which still hasn’t reached its first birthday, I am getting round to my first ever book review. This isn’t something I really know much about so please bare with me. Whiskies Galore by Ian Buxton was published in September 2017 by Birlinn Ltd which Google laughably calls a […]
Like most of my readers, I follow on twitter a lot of fellow whisky blog writers so when there is a big news day my timeline can fairly explode with the same “Press Release” from one or other multinational corporation. Today (9th October 2017), however, was slightly different in that I thought we were being […]
The Aberlour 10-year-old is the entry level expression from the Speyside distillery. In other Aberlour reviews, we have looked at they have been either strongly sherried like the Aberlour A’Bunadh Batch 58 or brightly fruity like the Aberlour 12-Year-Old Double Cask Matured . Both of these expressions were also bottled in a quite modern wide […]
With the closing credits on summer 2017 its time to consider what were the winners and losers in the drams we tried. I am not sure we actually had much of a summer up here in Scotland (ed: yawn always a weather comment) but apparently, it’s over now anyway. The Highlights Lagavulin 1999 (bottled 2015) […]
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