An easy going blog for easy going malts
I have tried quite a few Laphroaig’s for this blog and not all of the outcomes have followed the party line. Not least of which was the Select bottling which I found to be actually pretty decent for the money and for the intended market. Something which I noted had been lost on a number […]
I already had a sample of this when I voted for Ralfy to review this whisky. I thought it would be interesting to compare notes which I have never had the pleasure of meeting him. If you want to listen to his review you can do below: Peated Bunnahabhain is one form of peated whisky […]
The last dram was a powerful and imposing one from the Isle of Mull. The peated spirit from the Tobermory distillery is known as Ledaig. The name Ledaig was the original name for the distillery which dates from 1798 until the name change in 1918 to Tobermory. The Distillery The distillery was built in 1798 […]
The Dumbarton 32 year old was the fourth whisky in the flight of five we tasted on the night. It was kind of weird to have it in the flight at all and certainly almost at the end after quite a few very strongly flavoured whiskies. In terms of the story though it works out […]
Bruichladdich is a welcome home and one distillery I know well over the first two drams in this flight. Wither its the unpeated Bruichladdich, the heavily peated Port Charlotte or the big brand premium brand Octomore I know them all well and have never been disappointed by a release yet. The Dram This is my […]
Some distilleries have quite a cult following and people buy up the releases without even thinking about it. If you don’t get the same experience from the whisky you are “meant” to get you can feel like quite the outsider. Springbank has always been that kind of distillery to me. In my only other Springbank […]
I was recently invited to sample five of the new whiskies which make up the winter 2018 outturn for Claxton’s independent bottlers in Yorkshire. I have had the pleasure of trying a number of their single casks over the years and have bought a spectrum of bottles in the past. The first sample in the […]
In the last in the Christmas series we visit the smallest supermarket chain M&S Food. In the past I have picked up quite a few little gems in the spirits section. Truth be told in fact the M&S exclusives account for a large proportion of all the traffic to this blog. In true click bait […]
With Morrisons being such a bust last time I thought it might be a good time to bring out the big guns. Waitrose has the most high end whisky collection in all its stores of any of the major supermarkets which operate in Scotland. As we will see from the recommendations below they almost never […]
Kilmarnock is my hometown and has two claims two fame which are relevant here. The first is as the home of Johnnie Walker whisky until 2012 and the second is as the location of the first purpose-built Morrisons store in Scotland. An image of which is the feature of today’s next installment of Christmas Supermarket […]
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