Caol Ila and Lagavulin for Islay Festival 2010
Islay Festival 2010 is looming and it is now known what limited goodies two Diageo-owned Islay distilleries have in store for thirsty visitors.
From Lagavulin there is a single European oak cask filled in August 1994, bottled at 52.7% ABV. The release consists of 528 smile-inducing units of happy-happy-joy-joy. The cask was picked by Iain McArthur [...]
BenRiach PX 1984: The best whisky I have tasted in the last 2 months!
I have remained firmly out of recent discussions about Jim Murray and his Bible of Whisky. The main reason is I think Jim gets a fair few plaudits, so does not need my compliments and has pots of money/success so any criticism I would throw just looks like plain jealousy (which it would be). If [...]
Tags: BenRiach, BenRiach 1984, BenRiach 1990, Pedro Ximinez, single caskGlenDronach Releases Single Cask Batch One
Press release from 17th July 2009:
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The new owners of GlenDronach Distillery have selected five vintages for their first series of single cask bottlings since taking over the distillery last year.
In Batch One they have singled out malts from 1971, 1972, 1992, 1993 and 1996 in ages ranging from 38 to 13 years old.
All five are [...]
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