LIVING THE DRAM
Its always great to see a local business do well and flourish, especially, when they make whisky! Since its origins in 2017, the team at Henstone have built an ever-increasing roster of releases with plenty of awards for the end products. Whilst the Toller family stay at the helm, last year saw a company restructure... Continue Reading →
It would come as no surprise that Mackmyra has been one of my favourite distilleries in recent years. The sheer number of posts on here should be testament to that. It is devastating to hear then that the distillery has filed for bankruptcy in Sweden. The distillery has been in an odd state of flux... Continue Reading →
The Douglas Laing series of Remarkable Regional Malts has essentially established itself as the beginner’s guide to Scotland’s traditional whisky making regions. Each core bottling is a vatting of malts from different distilleries within the region to showcase the hallmark profiles from that area. Rock Island represents the signature characteristics of the distilleries one islands... Continue Reading →
Legend has it that the small Isle of Arran once had 50 distilleries working on it. With none remaining for some time though, the team at Lochranza Distillery set out in 1995 to resurrect the island’s whisky making ways. As with any new distillery, the team on the Isle of Arran have been learning their... Continue Reading →
Glenfiddich is undeniably one of the most recognisable single match scotch whiskies, and here we have the more senior sibling to their flagship 12 year old release, oldest of their core range, and owner of key to the door: the 18 year old. “Carefully matured for eighteen years in the finest Oloroso Sherry and bourbon... Continue Reading →
Fast approaching its bicentennial celebrations, the small distillery of Edradour has been producing “a whisky of rare distinction” in Pitlochry since 1825. Nestled in a pocket glen, in the hills above Pitlochry in the southern Highlands, lies Edradour, Scotland’s Little Gem. The neat cluster of buildings, houses equipment only just capable of producing commercial quantities.... Continue Reading →
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