LIVING THE DRAM
We have been fortunate enough to feature a fair few posts on this site about the Douglas Laing & Co Remarkable Regional Malts series - click here for more. The range of blended malt whiskies look to celebrate each of the traditional whisky making regions of Scotland. Having started out with a single core release... 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 →
Today makes the 75th anniversary of Douglas Laing & Co’s whisky ventures. Over the last decade or so their series of Remarkable Regional Malts have built on that legacy of whisky knowledge to showcase the classic flavour profiles of the “traditional” scotch whisky making regions. Many a whisky nerd/enthusiast can (and will) debate about whether... Continue Reading →
If you've been on this site before then you'll know that we are huge fans of Highland Park whiskies - see numerous tasting notes and posts here - so if you're anything like us then you'll be signed up to the Highland Park newsletter. For the HP die-hards, there have been a few social media... Continue Reading →
In 2017, the good folk at Highland Park really doubled down on promoting their Viking roots as part of their Orcadian history. The chunky, rectangular bottles were replaced with a new bottom-heavy curved design, laden with embossed markings inspired by the Viking carvings at Orkney’s Urnes Stave Church and assorted Viking paraphernalia. With that rebrand,... Continue Reading →
Here we have the first whisky to be released by Colonsay Beverages. As the name suggests, the company is based on the Scottish Isle of Colonsay within the Inner Hebrides and indeed the whisky brand gets its name from the port and village that the company are based in. Colonsay Beverages operates a microbrewery and... Continue Reading →
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