It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Well, finally, the silent season here at Road to Dram is over. If you are a returning visitor, you may notice a few changes since your last visit. And if you are new, you may just be wondering why the header says The Return…
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Today’s review of the Thompson Bro.s Mystery Malt, a 29-year-old Speyside Distillery from Batch 1, marks a major milestone. It is the final chapter of what the original Road to Dram set out to do: share my exploration of whisky, from my first steps to where I am now, close…
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While I was writing today’s post, I went back to a post I wrote almost two years ago. It seems yesterday, time really flies. In my review of the original Caol Ila 12, I wrote that Caol Ila is“…a great gateway dram to dive into independent bottlings [due to] the…
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Today’s Independent Bottled (IB) Whisky review of the Signatory Vintage Edradour 10, from the Un-Chillfiltered Collection, comes with a little quiz. If an independent bottler owns a distillery and bottles that liquid under its IB brand instead of as a distillery bottling, is it still really an IB? Should it…
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The beauty of Independently Bottled whisky often is that it is a fleeting experience. A single cask bottled: gone forever once sold out. Yet, from time to time, there are larger outputs made from larger batches of vatted casks, like the Signatory 100 series – check out my review of…
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After a bit of a break following my 12 memorable whiskies of 2025, it is time to officially start my 2026 reviews, diving back into some Independently Bottled whisky. Today I am reviewing the Watt Whisky Dailuaine 11 years old. Outside of the lone Flora and Fauna release from Diageo,…
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If you follow Road to Dram regularly or semi-regularly, you’ll have noticed the lack of posts over the past month. I appreciate those who reached out to check on me; all is well, at least when you ignore the crazy international climate. It’s only that everything got a bit much….
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It is that time of the year. The time when everybody in the whisky sphere declares their favourite bottle of the year. And just like last year, I refuse to reduce a year during which I tried close to 200 whiskies in a single bottle. Or three, if you want…
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For my next review on this series dedicated to Independent Bottlers, I am taking a leaf out of my most recent post on IBs cask management. And, specifically, the ability we get, as whisky lovers, to try some of our favourite distilleries’ spirit in as pure a form as we…
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If you are a frequent visitor to Road to Dram, you may have noticed a small break in my posts over the past week. I have to “thank” the seasonal bugs which knocked me out for a few days for that. Nothing major, and I am back on track now….
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