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 →
Over the past couple of decades the world market has seen a strong rise to prominence for Japanese whiskies. Japan is currently the third largest national producers of whisky (behind Scotland and the US respectively) and there are countless volumes written about how it compares to the traditional Scotch whiskies. If you actually look into... Continue Reading →
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