An easy going blog for easy going malts
During the summer of last year I took a little long weekend to jump across to the Isle of Arran. Being an ayrshire boy from the west coast of Scotland it was very much a busman’s holiday. I have been to Arran many times but all as a child so this was my first time […]
Balvenie has always been a brand which I have been sceptical of. With there high prices, low ABV and premium branding over substance I have always thought Balvenie was not for me. Like all brands though some of the bottles are more focused and niche which peek my interest a little more than the others. […]
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 […]
