An easy going blog for easy going malts
This site has reviewed a couple of Ardmore’s now and all have been pretty weird and unusual. Not least the Claxton’s Ardmore 8 Year Old for A Dram A Day from last year which was matured in an ex-Laphroaig quarter cask. However, there was one bottle which wasn’t weird but sweet, enjoyable and smoky and […]
The last Gordon & MacPhail Discovery bottle of this little set brings out a new colour, purple. Purple obviously being the well know colour for sherry. ( ?!?) What is interesting for me though is my first contact with Miltonduff distillery which is rarely seen on the shelves of a whisky shop. The Distillery The […]
With this third review from the new Discovery range we change colour of packaging from Green to silvery grey. I guess this is to somehow symbolise the smoke clouds or something. As it happens I have a couple of other similar Caol Ila’s to compare this to. I have the official 12 Year Old as a […]
The last review was on a Balblair from G&M’s new discovery series which has just been released. The second green bottle in the new series is this 13 year old from Tormore. The last whisky was soft and gentle with bags of sweet fruity notes. Will the Tormore be more of the same or something […]
The current buzz in scotch whisky is the new pricing structure of a particular expression of Aberlour. It seems to me another company has managed to work out new pricing models for their whiskies but got it under the radar. The way way they did this was two fold. Part 1 was to rebrand with […]
In our last review Aultmore 12 Year Old we spoke at length about the Dewer’s family of distilleries. I made the bold statement that Aberfeldy is the poor relation in the family only to be found in supermarkets and Amazon’s Deal of the Day. Statements which I stand by of course but there is an […]
The Aultmore range of single malt whiskies is a brand which has been heavily worked and invested in these last couple of years. The owners Bacardi own 5 distilleries in Scotland including Aberfeldy, Craigellachie, Macduff and Royal Brackla. With a portfolio of five distilleries Bacardi can afford to attack different segments of the market simultaneously. […]
One of the more unusual and less widely know about is the Blackadder brand. This brand really focuses on being as raw and pure to what is in the cask as possible. This particular bottling I know very little about can’t find out much information on the internet. So if you do know anything about […]
The Gordan & MacPhail owned Benromach distillery gets a lot of positive love on the internet. Back in the early 90’s when the distillery was bought and then brought back into service in 1997 it wasn’t the done thing. Back then people who dropped large amounts of cash on starting whisky distilleries were mental reckless […]
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