Today’s review of the Classic Laddie started as the companion to the Bunnahabhain 12 review in the unpeated Islay pair. While that is indeed the case, while working on it I ended up going down the bunny hole of batch variations.
Today’s review of the Bunnahabhain 12 year old closes the series on entry-level ex-Sherry cask single malts and opens a separate mini series. This post and the next one will be dedicated to two distilleries which regularly bottle unpeated spirit and might be appropriately called Islay Splitters.
After Aultmore, I am looking at another one of Dewar’s/Bacardi under-the-radar distilleries with this review of the Royal Brackla 12 year old Sherry cask finish. As for Tamdhu 12 just a few days ago, I expected a Sherry forward bottle and got something else.
This review of the GlenAllachie 12 year old is the first of a series of five dedicated to entry-level original bottlings aged in ex-Sherry casks. It is also an opportunity to break a preconceived idea that all distilleries have a centenary tradition and an unbroken track in the whisky world.
This Altmore 12 year old review completes my exploration of entry-level single malts exclusively aged in ex-bourbon casks, but more importantly it made me discover how small the single malt market really is
Today I review the Deansto 12 year old, another single malt exclusively aged in bourbon casks. By the end of it, I learned an important lesson about objective quality vs personal taste
For today’s bourbon-cask matured single malt review, today I check out the Glencadam 10 year old. Does this delicate dram live up to the love it gets from Whisky aficionados?
It would be pretty much impossible to talk and test the next generation of Scotch blends, without a review of Adelphi’s Maclean’s Nose. It is a blend which already has… Read More »Adelphi Maclean’s Nose Blended Scotch review
Spend more than a few days looking at YouTube whisky videos and you inevitably run across the concept of integrity presented whisky. If you can’t exactly get your head around… Read More »Intermission: What in the angel’s share is integrity presented whisky?