Merry Christmas!

Sitting in my parents’ house with a smoky wonder number 76 from the SMWS in one hand and a Ferrero Rocher in the other (typing with my toes) I am mentally and phisically ready for all the excess of the hours and, indeed, days to come. I have some real crackers lined up; apart from the 76 there is [...]

Highland Park ‘The Earl Magnus’ Edition 1

We have just received a pigeon from Orkney. Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney from the 11th century, will be honoured by Highland Park distillery with his very own bottling.
I must admit I had never heard about Earl Magnus. I am pretty ignorant when it comes to the 11th century history of Orkney… or, for that [...]

Spot The Difference!

Ian Macleod Distillers pull out the 40yo big guns

A few months back, Lucas and I had a thoroughly enjoyable evening watching Champions League football, drinking pints and sampling what we thought was going to be one of Ian Macleod’s biggest weapons in 2009, Smokehead 18yo. You can read our review here. We didn’t realise Ian Macleod so had many weapons left in the [...]

Fancy a trip to Orkney?

A press release from Highland Park:
To celebrate Homecoming Scotland Whisky Month, Highland Park is welcoming visitors to enjoy a free tour at its Orkney distillery on Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 May.
The guided tour of the world’s northernmost Scotch Whisky distillery allows visitors to discover the whisky making techniques that have made Highland Park arguably [...]

Scotland vs. Wales

Penderyn May 07 vs. Highland Park 12 yo
Have you heard of the Welsh single malt whisky called Penderyn? I have but I hadn’t tried it until last night. It was another one of Euan’s grand ideas, to resolve Wales vs. Scotland game before it even kicks off on Sunday afternoon. We headed to his Newington [...]

Highland Park 18 yo follow-up…

When I was first getting to know whisky regions, Highland Park simply belonged to the Grand Uniform Region Of All Islands. It was nice and simple, geographical and logical. Those of you, who bother to follow that at all, know that now it’s all a little bit more complicated.
Islay is now a region on its [...]

Highland Park 18 yo

This being the final whisky to be written up for the Teuchters Landing tasting, it is typical that I would get some writer’s block. Maybe I don’t want our first and inaugural tasting to be over? I consider having a couple of whiskies to get the creative juices flowing, but this would probably be a [...]

Whisky tasting in Teuchters Landing

Teuchter - a Lowland Scots word used mainly for Northern, Highland Scots, or Doric speaking Scots, although sometimes to any rural Scots by urban Scots (…). Like most such cultural epithets, it is often offensive, but is sometimes seen as amusing by the speaker. The term is often taken to mean “ignorant northerner”. (Wikipedia)

I’m on [...]