May 2018 Archives - Edinburgh Whisky Blog

Tamdhu: Dalbeallie Dram & 120th Anniversary Cask

May 31, 2018 by Chris +

It was a busy old start to month at Tamdhu, what with them releasing two new expressions within days of each other; the Dalbeallie Dram and 120th Anniversary Single Cask bottling. The Dalbeallie Dram was released to coincide [...]

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society Festival Bottlings

May 29, 2018 by Chris +

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May. The month of whisky festivals. World Whisky Day, the Whisky Stramash, and the Campbeltown Malts Festival are book-ended by the Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival at the start of May and Feis Ile at the end, to create a [...]

Would you ever pay £80 for Aberlour a’bunadh?

May 28, 2018 by Chris +

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Well… would you? Let me be quite clear here. This, shockingly, isn’t a hypothetical question. I’m not talking about the very first five batches of a’bunadh; the un-numbered batches produced way back in single malt’s [...]

Redbreast Dream Cask 32yo

May 26, 2018 by Chris +

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Last weekend amongst all the hubbub of a Royal Wedding, the FA Cup final, and World Whisky Day, a very exciting whisky was launched. I avoided all the aforementioned chaos with The Drinks Lady by escaping to the Scottish [...]

The Glenlivet Code – can you crack the code?

May 25, 2018 by Chris +

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In late March I took part in The Glenlivet Hackathon, which was part of the activity surrounding the launch of the newest addition to Glenlivet’s no-cask-info-no-tasting-notes-no-nothing range, The Glenlivet Code. Following [...]