An easy going blog for easy going malts
So in our mini series around the Distiller’s bottling of Talisker we saw flavour changes over the course of nearly a year. The reason for that I am sure you will have gathered is oxidisation in the bottle as the ratio of air and whisky changes over time. Is this a good or a bad […]
We are now on the third and last post of the Talisker bottle from October last year. To see the first post from opening the bottle you can go to Part 1: Talisker 2003 (Bottled 2014) Amoroso Finish Distillers Edition and then see how the flavours developed over the course of the first half of the contents […]
The Auchentoshan distillery was until very recently the closest operating distillery to my house. Since then two have opened up in Hillington and next to the River Clyde. When I visited a couple of years back I was a little new to all this but found the range new, exciting and special. Quite a lot […]
The next stop of the whisky trail as led by Douglas Laing’s Regional Malts series is Islay on its own. In the previous segment we were travelling around all the islands of Scotland but now we focus purely on the heavily peated nirvana of Islay. All the distilleries on Islay produce at least some peated […]
The Arran distillery has been quite quiet this year so far I think. Very recently they announced a new series of special editions in the Explorer Series which starts with a 20 year old sherry matured expression at a decent £130 a bottle. Up to then though there social media and marketing has been very […]
In the Regional Malts series of posts I talk quite extensively about the entry points to single malt whiskies and which ones would work for most people. For me the first whisky that opened up whisky to me was Glenfiddich 12. Packing lots of fruit flavours and gentle arrival without any heat or burn it […]
The internet is littered with whisky blogs written by people all over the world. Each one has a goal and more often than not it is to driven views and make themselves known to producers and distributors to get access to whiskies we simply cannot afford. What this means is the content is all about […]
The Rock Oyster is the Islands entry in the Regional Malts series from Douglas Laing. With the island whisky we are getting into an area I am most comfortable. As a west of Scotland local the islands of Scotland are places I have a romantic view of life surrounded by the sea. It brings up […]
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