An easy going blog for easy going malts
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 […]
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 […]
Ardmore is one of those distilleries which is widely available on the independent bottling market. With the owners Beam Suntory mostly only interested in the distillery for blends the single malt market is mostly left alone with the Traditional Cask, Legacy and Port Finish the main entrants in the core range and only the Legacy […]
Sometimes I buy a bottle and look forward to opening it. On opening I savor and taste each dram enjoying noticing the changes in the whisky as the bottle goes down. This time I missed out of that opportunity. More on that later… The Distillery The ardmore distillery is a large Victorian distillery in the […]
Tonight’s post is something a little bit different. It is a whisky review but it is also much more than that. This is a piece on the completion of a year long challenge by one man from York who did an extraordinary thing for a children’s charity. The Bottler AP Claxton Ltd is an independent […]
