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Bruichladdich – Barley Exploration Series 2019

August 29, 2019 by Chris +

It’s well documented that Bruichladdich have an obsession with, well, pretty much everything when it comes to whisky making; peating levels, terroir, transparency, additional cask evolution-ing (‘finishing’, to you and I), [...]

Glendronach Single Cask Batch 17

August 8, 2019 by Chris +

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Yes, it’s that time of year again when Glendronach release a range of heavily sherried (or port-ed) single cask whiskies. Remarkably, we’re on to Batch 17 and this time, the brand have divvied up their single cask offering [...]

Highland Park The Light 17yo

July 2, 2018 by Chris +

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Highland Park launched The Light a little while back, completing their two-part series which began with, you guessed it, The Dark. With the first expression being matured entirely in European Oak ex-sherry casks, this one has [...]

Ovenbird Whisky Aged Coffee

November 5, 2017 by Chris +

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The nice thing about becoming obsessed with flavour, as I am with the flavours of whisky and beer, is this obsession transfers to the other parts of the culinary world. Coffee, like whisky and beer, seems to be expanding into [...]

Inchmoan 12yo & 1992 Vintage

September 25, 2017 by Chris +

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A couple of months ago I touched on just how varied the distillation processes and styles of spirit produced at Loch Lomond Distillery are. With pot stills, so-called ‘straight necked pot stills’ (Lomond stills?) and [...]