Introduction Wow, it’s been quite a few weeks since I posted any whisky reviews. I’ve been busy with a work project, and while I’ve had my fair share of drams, and taken notes here and there, I just didn’t find the time to write an actual blog post. My plan now is to quickly post [...]
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Ardbeg 10 – A personal benchmark
Posted in Ardbeg, review, tagged Ardbeg 10, Ardbeg 10 review on February 26, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Single Malt Extravaganza coming to Phoenix! (…and other cities)
Posted in review, whisky events, tagged Single Malt and Scotch Whisky Extravaganza, SMWSA Extravaganza on February 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ahh…back in the WordPress blog editor after a little over a month. My day job has been more of a day and night job since the start of the year. Fortunately, we’re in the process of wrapping up the project that has kept me so busy. I needed something to jump-start me back into writing [...]
Two Tomatins you can’t go wrong with
Posted in review, tagged Master of Malt, Master of Malt Tomatin 19, Tomatin 18 review on January 4, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Introduction I hadn’t really seen or heard much about the Tomatin distillery until mid-2010 when Joshua over at The Jewish Single Malt Whisky Society generously sent me 50ml of his Master of Malt Tomatin 19 year single cask (cask-strength) as part of a sample swap. He was really impressed with it and thought I’d like [...]
A Bevy of Balvenie – Sizing up the new Caribbean Rum Cask release
Posted in Balvenie, review, tagged Balvenie 12 Signature review, Balvenie Caribbean Rum Cask review, Balvenie Doublewood review, Balvenie Founder's Reserve review, Balvenie Madeira Cask on December 15, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Introduction Last year, I was fortunate enough to receive a free bottle of The Balvenie Madiera Cask 17 year for review from William Grant & Sons (parent company for The Balvenie). I really liked it, but wasn’t completely sold on the value proposition. So, that’s it for freebies from them, right? I guess not! This [...]
The Dalmore: Let’s Get It On
Posted in Dalmore, review, tagged The Dalmore 12, The Dalmore 15, The Dalmore Cigar Malt, The Dalmore Gran Reserva on November 8, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Introduction Can a glass of whisk(e)y be sexy? I’m not talking about some weird fetish here. Rather, are there certain drinks that work better than others on a romantic evening with your loved one? I’ve found that there are some whiskies that I reach for on date nights with my wife, and others that I [...]
Glenfarclas 1986 Family Cask
Posted in Glenfarclas, review, tagged Glenfarclas 17, Glenfarclas 1986 Family Cask, Master of Malt on October 22, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Introduction Here we go with my first review of a free Master of Malt sample. It’s a 20 year old Glenfarclas from the Family Cask series, bottled at 56.5%. There were 521 bottles produced from a single refill sherry puncheon. I’m going to compare it with the standard Glenfarclas 17 year old release. I already [...]
Master of Malt Samples Disclaimer
Posted in review, whisky samples on October 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Introduction I’m going to be doing a few scotch reviews soon based on samples from Master of Malt. Four of them are free samples that I got as part of a promotion they seem to be doing with bloggers. Before I start posting these, I thought I’d write up a quick disclaimer to link to [...]
Tasting Penderyn Sherrywood and Peated. Coming soon to the U.S.
Posted in Penderyn, review, tagged Penderyn Madiera, Penderyn Peated, Penderyn Sherrywood on September 27, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Introduction Today, I’m comparing three Penderyn [the only whisky distillery in Wales] expressions to see which I like best. Back at the beginning of the year, I posted a review of the standard Penderyn Madeira Finish expression. I thought it was a good, and very different tasting whisky. As far as enjoyment level, I thought [...]
Doin’ the Lagavulin, cask-strength style
Posted in Lagavulin, review, tagged Lagavulin 16, Lagavulin 16 review, Lagavulin DE 1991, Lagavulin DE review, Lagavulin Distillery Only, Lagavulin Feis Ile 2010 on September 8, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Introduction Following on my last post, a comparison of Feis Ile Laphroaig samples from whiskysamples.eu, I’m now comparing two cask strength Lagavulin samples. First up is a 1994/2010 for Feis Ile, bottled at 52.7%. There were only 528 total bottles in this release, and it’s coming from European Oak ex sherry casks. Next, we have [...]
A Laphroaig Cask Strength comparison
Posted in Laphroaig, review, tagged Cairdeas Master Edition, Laphroaig 10 CS Batch 001, Laphroaig Cairdeas on August 23, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Introduction Last year, after following Feis Ile vicariously through other blog posts, I ordered some festival samples, including the Laphroaig Cairdeas [car-chase] 2009 release, which I did a post on here . I went to do the same this year for the 2010 release, and discovered that whiskysamples.eu had a few extra samples of the [...]
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