57⁰ North: The shape of things to come?
About the only good thing to come out of The Scottish rugby team’s recent loss to Italy in Rome was that my family who had been across for the match brought me back a whisky from the airport. Talisker 57⁰ North, until very recently only available in airports. It is pretty much a cask strength [...]
Tags: Ardbeg, Ardbeg Uigeadail, Diageo, Glenmorangie, Ian McLeod, Moet Hennessy, takeover, Talisker, Talisker 57⁰ North, UigeadailArdbeg Rollercoaster Review
As Ardbeg Rollercoaster is about to go on sale in an hour or so (Monday, 9am), we give you a line or two of very subjective review. Euan Martin and Chris Hoban sampled the whisky on Thursday and came up with their own tasting notes and opinions without consulting each other on the night!
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Euan: Firstly, [...]
Ardbeg Rollercoaster: Official Photo!
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Tags: Ardbeg, Ardbeg Rollercoaster, bottle, official, photo, pictureHere comes Ardbeg Rollercoaster!
Update (15/02/2010): High resolution photo and our review
Here it comes! The new Ardbeg is just round the corner. On February 15th Ardbeg Rollercoaster will be made available through the Ardbeg website. It is a vatting of 10 casks, one from each year between 1997 and 2006, put together co celebrate the tenth anniversary of the [...]
Ardbeg Corryvreckan: A grower?
Here at EWB we are seriously cool. We are the guys that are the big deal. You know the type: fashionably late for all the parties and fashionably late in reviewing whisky. Obviously this is because the whole industry is waiting on the edges of their seats for the EWB thumb to go [...]
Tags: Ardbeg, Ardbeg CorryvreckanArdbeg Evangelist? Quite Divine.
There are certain distilleries we like a bit more than others. We recently criticised Jim Murray for just that and now we admit openly we do exactly the same. Never trust a blogger.
Some distilleries make great whisky, some hire nice people who successfully make friends with us, some have beautiful stories or great working ethics [...]
I like Jim Murray 41.5/100
The whisky world buzzed. And behind the scenes is shrieked with annoyance. Another Whisky Bible is out and guess what? Ardbeg won the thing again. This time it’s the Supernova with the near-perfect score of 97/100.
But what does it really mean? Completely nothing. For two reasons.
First, how relevant, in the end, is one person’s opinion? [...]
Ardbeg Corryvreckan: A Giant Mysterious Whirlpool
Press Release from Ardbeg:
Ardbeg Corryvreckan Launch - Inspired by Europe’s Largest Whirlpool
The iconic whisky distillery Ardbeg - which has won the coveted World Whisky of the Year title two years running - announces today (Tuesday 1st September) the launch of Ardbeg Corryvreckan - a whisky inspired by the famous Corryvreckan whirlpool.
Corryvreckan is Europe’s largest, and [...]
Which whisky is better than bad sex?
Ekhm, ekhm. We got a bit lazy recently, I admit. But it’s all Paula’s fault! She has been emailing me all this fantastic material on Feis Ile and what was I supposed to do? Had to fire it out first, right?
Ok. Excuses.
But now we are catching up and fast. Today we publish our thoughts on [...]
Paula on Islay: Day 3
A pretty good night’s sleep- got woken briefly by the malt lorries at 6am. Shot down to Port Ellen to get cash (again) and a thank-you present for the staff and returned to find I’d missed the morning tour - typical! Now, what to do first…Islay Ales beer festival or Bowmore open day? Where’s that map…?
Couldn’t [...]
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