An easy going blog for easy going malts
The Remarkable Malts series has been heavily reviewed on this site over the last year. The complete list to date includes: Rock Oyster 18 Year Old Big Peat Rock Oyster Scallywag Cask Strength No.2 Scallywag Timorous Beastie 10 Year Old Timorous Beastie The Epicurean The latest instalment is the premium Gold Edition bottle of Big […]
This is a post I have been meaning to do for some time. After the Tullibardine 225 Sauternes Cask Finish review I couldn’t bring myself to finish anymore of the bottle. It is genuinely one of the worst whiskies I have ever bought or indeed tried so I used the remainder as the base for an infinity […]
If there is one thing we have had a lot of recently its Glengoyne reviews. At this stage I am pretty much done with the distillery for the rest of the year. However, once more into the breach we go for the new limited edition series which had recently been put on sale. No this […]
Cochrane Cartwright was the distillery manager of Glengoyne until his death at the age of 43 in the cooling pool behind the distillery. Today, he is credited with bringing the technique of slow distillation to the distillery and started the use of sherry casks which has since become the house style. Cochrane was a simple […]
The Diageo owned Mortlach distillery has had quite a distributive few years at the hands of the owners. With a cult following for its meaty character the distillery’s single malts were rebranded upmarket with lower alcohol strength, smaller bottles and fancier glassware. In an attempt to grow their brand and increase revenue from an asset […]
The oldest currently available Glengoyne is the 30 year old. In my last review on the 25 year old I mentioned this new one is silly expensive. At £700 a bottle I am never going to recommend someone buys and opens this without knowing what they are getting in to. At a recent event there […]
When you think about peated whisky you rarely think about the Highland region and Ardmore is never close to the top of anyone’s mind. However, Islay should not and does not have a monopoly on peated whiskies. Speaking of Monopoly have you seen the Islay version from a few years ago. I have been on […]
We have looked at a number of Glengoyne’s recently and now its time for the one of the big guns in the range. The 25 Year Old is about as different to the 10 Year Old as you can get. Like I said in that previous review by the time the whisky has been maturing […]
After the previous review of the 18 Year Old from Glengoyne we are knocking it back slightly to the far younger 10 Year Old. Many people would have sequential ordering of their posts or even a post schedule but not here and not me. The 10 year old is the one most closely aligned with […]
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