The Laphroaig Cairdeas 2021 Pedro Ximenez immediately makes me think of the Laphroaig Triple Wood; not because of how it tastes, but because of how it’s made… and a tiny bit in how it tastes. This year’s Cairdeas is a small, but significant, twist on a Laphroaig classic that was featured at cask strength as […]
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Alexander Murray bottled this Kirkland Speyside 24 years Sherry Finish for Costco in July of 2021. It hit the shelves a couple months later and immediately made a splash. A 24-year-old, sherried, Single Malt Scotch, with that color, and priced around $70… how could it not? Here in SoCal it kept selling out as soon […]
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This 2004 Single Cask Nation Ledaig 15 was part of the Malt Nuts: Ledaig Part 5 tasting. It was, obviously, my contribution to the tasting and now that the full recap is up I wanted to take a beat and give it a deeper dive. Malt Nuts events are great, we get a solid overview […]
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The tale of Islay Mist 8 years, well just Islay Mist, holds that it was the original “Islay blend” created in the 20’s to celebrate a Lord’s son’s 21st birthday. I don’t know why 21 was a big deal in the 20’s, “legal drinking age” wasn’t much of a thing back then and in the […]
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Oh great, another overpriced CB release that only, wait-what, the Compass Box Orchard House is an affordable new core release? Color me tickled. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a massive Compass Box fan, but as my good friend Bozzy pointed out, there has been an advancing trend of ultra-premium releases that few can get their […]
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The SCWC has been on a roll with our single cask picks and the latest is this Compass Box Glasgow Blend Single Cask. If you’re an observant person you might be wondering how you get a single cask of a massive blend. Well, you don’t. You get a single marrying cask of a massive blend; […]
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It’s been over four years since we did our last young Laphroaig tasting. The last one was fun, a lot of fun, and so we decided it was time to revisit an Islay favorite. The rules for this tasting were pretty straightforward: Laphroaig aged 10 years or under and something we haven’t already tried in […]
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By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ I first wrote up Compass Box’s Great King Street Artist’s Blend in Spring 2012, and we are fast coming upon the 10th anniversary. Much has changed in that decade, not just for Compass Box, but for this specific brand. Created as the standard bearer for Compass Box’s line of artfully …
Following the success of the inaugural Fettercairn 16 Years Old last year, the distillery has today announced the release of its successor. The annual series celebrates different maturation stories, whilst continuing to showcase the distillery’s tropical style achieved from the distinctive copper cooling ring distillation process. This latest release unites both Sherry-matured and Sherry-finished casks to …
The Malt Nuts gathering to do a Ledaig tasting has become a yearly tradition. Though this year, unfortunately, I had to opt to do the second (digital) version because of a scheduling conflict. Luckily that option is still open, though who knows for how much longer. This is why the photos below don’t look like […]
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