Introduction Tonight I’m comparing 2007 OB versions of Caol Ila 12 and 18 year expressions. These are 200ml bottles that came in my Islay Collection gift pack. Both are bottled at 43% ABV. Locally (Arizona), the full size bottle of Caol Ila 12 can be found for around $50, while the 18 year goes for [...]
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Comparing Caol Ila 12 and 18
Posted in Caol Ila, review, tagged Caol Ila, review, scotch, whisky on May 30, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Bruichladdich 15 (OB) – Not the one at your store, though
Posted in Bruichladdich, review, tagged Bruichladdich, review, scotch, whisky on May 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Introduction I was at my local liquor store, and I mentioned to an employee that I had never tried Bruichladdich [brook-laddie]. He pointed me to the 15 year and talked about how it was finished in Sauternes wine casks. Then he mentioned that they just got some 50 ml miniatures of it in stock. Cool, [...]
Flashback: My first Islay malt (Laphroaig 10)
Posted in Laphroaig, review, tagged Laphroaig, scotch, whisky on May 26, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Introduction Margy McCoy (@MargyMcCoy), a Friends of Laphroaig employee, sent out a request on Twitter earlier today asking others to tweet about their first experience with Laphroaig. She’s offering up a bottle of Feis Ile Cardais scotch to the best tweet. I was immediately taken back to my first sip of Laphroaig 10 and responded [...]
Following Feis Ile 2009
Posted in Feis Ile, Festivals, tagged Feis Ile, Port Askaig, Rosebank, whisky on May 25, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Feis Ile 2009 Feis Ile – the Islay Festival of Malt and Music – started this past weekend. I’ve been following the action through Blogs and Tweets, and thought I’d post links to some of the more interesting sources I’ve found: Feis Ile Web Site Here’s a link to the Festival Events page on the [...]
Port Askaig 17: International Dram of Mystery
Posted in Caol Ila, review, tagged Caol Ila, Port Askaig, review, scotch, whisky on May 21, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Introduction Tonight, we have the Port Askaig Islay 17 year single malt scotch, bottled at 45.8% ABV, non-chill filtered, and no added coloring. Port Askaig is a new range of single malts from Specialty Drinks Ltd (SDL), a sister company of The Whisky Exchange (TWE). Along with the 17 year, they offer a No Age [...]
Rosebank 1991, 17 year (SMS) – Get it while you can
Posted in review, Rosebank, tagged lowland, review, Rosebank, scotch, whisky on May 17, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Introduction Of the closed distilleries in Scotland, Rosebank, a lowland distillery, doesn’t have quite the buzz of a Brora or Port Ellen. There does, however, seem to be a fairly widespread opinion in the whisky community that it’s a shame Rosebank isn’t still in operation. Fortunately for us, they appear to have had a pretty [...]
Yamazaki 12 – A Speyside twin separated at birth?
Posted in review, Yamazaki, tagged review, whisky, Yamazaki on May 14, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Introduction apples and pears followed by vanilla oak smooth Ok, if it’s not clear from the name that this Yamazaki 12 Single Malt Whisky isn’t technically scotch whisky, then perhaps my bad Haiku above gave it away. Tonight I’m drinking from a 50 ml miniature of this popular Japanese whisky, bottled at 43%. The Yamazaki [...]
Lagavulin 12 ‘Special Release’ (2007)
Posted in Lagavulin, review, tagged Lagavulin, review, scotch, whisky on May 11, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Introduction Tonight [well, last night by the time I post this] I’m drinking from a 20 cl bottle of Lagavulin 12 ‘Special Release’, another sample from my 2007 Classic Islay Collection gift pack. I posted yesterday about the value of these gift packs because of the inclusion of the Port Ellen Annual Release. However, this [...]
Port Ellen for the rest of us
Posted in Gift Packs, Port Ellen, tagged Caol Ila, Lagavulin, Port Ellen, Whisky Gift Packs on May 11, 2009 | 10 Comments »
I love those gift packs where you get a few (usually three) 20 cl bottles of whisky in a nice box. The cost is usually not much more per cl than you would pay for a full size bottle, but you get to try out multiple expressions. They’re especially great for a new whisky enthusiast. [...]
Port Ellen 7th Annual Release (28 Year)
Posted in Port Ellen, review, tagged Port Ellen, review, scotch, whisky on May 9, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Introduction A couple of months ago, I started becoming aware of the buzz around the Port Ellen Annual Releases, and became very interested in this whisky. However, I was pretty sure I would never actually taste a Port Ellen original distillery bottling (OB). I mean really, $400 for a 750ml bottle? No way that’s happening [...]
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