LIVING THE DRAM
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve revisited some bottles that have long sat on the WU shelves and yet have somehow never posted about them properly. Whilst there are multiple variants of The Balvenie, their core range consists of four cask finish releases with these two have remained the two consistent stalwarts at reasonable... Continue Reading →
The Balvenie distillery was built and started running its stills in 1893, on a site just up the hill from the Glenfiddich. Built as a sister project to the world leaders, the site had been producing malt for 100 years until they released a game changer: The Balvenie 12 DoubleWood. The team had been producing... Continue Reading →
Here we have one of the mainstays of The Balvenie’s single malt offerings: the 14 years old Caribbean Cask. “This single malt spent many years maturing in traditional whisky oak casks before being transferred to casks that had previously held Caribbean rum for a final period of maturation” The whisky has spent thr majority of... Continue Reading →
Hot on the heels of winning the title of World’s Best Single Malt for its 12-year-old expression, leading Scotch whisky brand The GlenAllachie launches a limited-edition line called Sinteis (pronounced sin-teesh). The new series is named after the Scottish Gaelic word for synthesis and is accompanied by the tagline “Two distinct casks. One harmonious... Continue Reading →
This St. George’s day post goes to one of my favourite new distilleries of recent years! We have seen the team at the White Peak distillery experimenting with numerous different cask types, yeast types, and bottling strengths, but here we have an experiment in the whisky making process itself! One of the early experiments that... Continue Reading →
In the states, you’ve been able to get age statement Jack Daniel’s in very limited batches. Their first batch of the 10yo was their first in 100 years and sold out very quickly. So has each of the following 2 batches. Batch 4 hits the UK market for the first time at £110 a bottle... Continue Reading →
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