By Richard Thomas Rating: A- In Royal Brackla’s repackaged regular line-up, the 21 Year Old expression is the crown, but it’s got a bit more sparkle than just a high age statement. Some whiskies are finished in old Sherry casks, but this one draws on three different types of Sherry wood stock: Oloroso, Pedro Ximenez …
The Glenlivet, the original Speyside single malt, has reimagined its renowned 21 and 25 Year Old expressions, transporting them into new territories of flavor. The meticulously crafted whiskies have been finished in unique cask combinations, continuing The Glenlivet’s tradition of pushing boundaries and offering originality in the world of prestige single malt scotch whiskies by …
By Richard Thomas Rating: A- The latest creation of Rachel Barrie, the Master Blender of the BenRiach Group (also known as the Scotch Whisky arm of Brown-Forman) is also the latest installment in Glendronach’s Grandeur series, a 28 Year Old single malt aged in Pedro Ximénez and Oloroso Sherry casks. Since some readers might wonder …
Bottled around 1976, there is very little online about the St. Dennis Very Special Blended Scotch. And by very little I mean just one other post which is a listing for a bottle of this. A listing that’s selling it for $50. Which, after having tried several bottles of it, is about $100 too much […]
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What’s so glorious about early 1970s White Horse Blended Scotch? For starters, there’s likely some Scotch from the Malt Mill distillery which was an offshoot of Lagavulin. Though for most of you, and me, the draw here is the old Lagavulin. This particular White Horse comes from the early 70s which means the Lagavulin in […]
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I’m going to spare any pretense about the 1979 Old and Rare Benrinnes 40 Years and tell you right now it’s delicious. Everyone who tried this bottle before its demise at my going away party enjoyed it; especially me. I enjoyed it a lot and a lot of it. This once-in-a-lifetime bottle was a multi-celebratory […]
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If you don’t like peat, then the Hazelburn Sherry Wood 13 Years might be something you want to check out. Springbank is lightly peated, Longrow is heavily peated and Hazelburn is unpeated; Springbank makes something for everyone. It’s also triple-distilled. Though commonly associated with Irish Whiskey there are several distilleries in Scotland that triple-distill to […]
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Benromach Distillery in Speyside has launched a new small batch single malt, ‘Benromach Triple Distilled’, into its ‘Contrasts’ range. This limited-edition expression was created in a style which is deliberately different in character to its signature 10-Year-Old single malt. For this unique release, the spirit has been triple distilled, passing through the wash still and …
A few years ago, the Malt Nuts did a crazy vertical of Longrow 18 Years and I’m finally posting the review of my bottle from that night… and killing it off in the process. Do you sense a theme in these recent posts? Beyond it all being Springbank distilled stuff that is. As I was […]
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This 1995 Sovereign Springbank 22 Years was my birthday bottle back in March of 2020. An ominous month in human history, but instead of 2020, I want to focus on 1995. I don’t know about you, but when I think about the number in the abstract, it doesn’t feel that long ago… but it was […]
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