LIVING THE DRAM
The 1960s are often heralded as a turning point in modern popular culture with many exponents still standing the test of time, which can also be said of the whisky distilleries built around then. Whilst not exactly a boom period for whisky, there were 8 scotch whisky distilleries built in that decade of which 7... 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 →
Now… I need to tread carefully here. I am dealing with a fan favourite. So extreme is the love for the Springbank distillery that their regular age statement expressions and core releases now seem to have a waiting list for those willing to partake - and at a price that is some 150-200% above the... 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 →
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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