Archive for January, 2010

Video: Call of Whisky Duty

I just came back from my wee holiday and look what I brought with me - videos! There are a couple of short clips, first one below, more coming up soon. Have you ever been to the World of Whisky at any airport? What do you think? Do you like them? Are they all the [...]

The SWE Blend: A Rare Insight

To mark 21 years of being open, The Scotch Whisky Experience decided to create a 21 year old luxury commemorative blend. Since the Scotch Whisky Experience is owned by some of the major players in the Scotch Whisky Industry, it means they were allowed access to some really interesting and rare whiskies. Not only did [...]

Video: Black Art in The Albanach

Our second vlog entry. For much better quality, bigger player and rating/comment options view directly on YouTube.
And don’t forget to hit that HD button!

A Quick Dram: Bowmore Tempest

Bowmore Tempest
10 years old
Islay
55.3%ABV
£40.61 from here
Nose: Menthol and bread with a touch of leather and sweet pipe smoke… smells like an old man but in a good way. With water presents some quality sweet vanilla. Add a touch more and it hits with berry-flavoured Robinson diluting juice, milk chocolate and more wood smoke. Awesome.
Palate: Rich [...]

Someone got pissed off?

Persons with heart conditions and those who are currently within a granade-haul-distance from Downing Street in London (and happen to have a granade on them) are advised not to read this post.
Ever-reliable scotchwhisky.net reported that The Edrington Group’s chairman, Sir Ian Good got well pissed off when he found out that Gordon Brown had said [...]

A Quick Dram: Murray McDavid Mortlach 1993

A Christmas gift dram from Paula (Islay blog posts)
Mortlach 1993 (11yo)
Bottled by: Murray McDavid
Speyside
Bourbon cask, finished in Graham’s Port casks
1800 bottles, 46% abv
Mortlach means ‘duck massacre’ apparently…
Colour: 1970s brown leather sofa
Nose: Apples, berries and peaches. Blackcurrants and nail varnish, lemony and sour. Finally White chocolate and nutmeg.
Palate: Grapey blackcurrants oaky and very clean
Finish: Very short
Overall: [...]

The Manager’s Choice 2nd Release

Diageo has just announced the release of the second batch of their (in)famous Manager’s Choice expressions. The release comprises of 6 new single cask whiskies:
Blair Athol: Nov 1995, 570 bottles, Bodega Sherry European Oak, £200
Cragganmore: May 1997, 246 bottles, Bodega Sherry European Oak, £250
Dalwhinnie: February 1992, 270 bottles, Refill American Oak, £250
Dufftown: May 1997, 282 [...]

Our Birthday Video

Here is our birthday video, as promsed. We will be posting every vlog entry here on the blog shortly (up to 24h) after it appears on YouTube. Why delayed? We are trying to encourage you to subscribe to our channel so that you can comment and shower us with beautiful red shiny stars… we are [...]

Launching a YouTube Channel!

Yup, that’s right. It does exactly what it says on the tin. You go to YouTube, subscribe and watch us doing stupid things with/after whisky. We are hoping to fire out a video every couple of days. If you don’t have a YouTube account, don’t worry - we’ll be posting the videos here as well… [...]

Distillery Focus

Hello, Euan here. Some readers blessed with a good memory may remember my name from a few previous posts that I’ve made here and hopefully you will be seeing a little bit more of me in the future.
Anyway, I’m here to introduce you to a new (and all things going to plan, regular) feature I’ll [...]