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Glenturret Brock Malloy Edition

June 2, 2015 by Chris +

A single cask. How totally individual. How utterly unrepeatable. How completely unique. I love sampling them. Don’t get me wrong, multi-cask vattings from distilleries form the bulk of my all time top single malts – Ardbeg [...]

Blair Athol – more than a load of Bell’s

February 10, 2015 by Chris +

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I have to admit, for all the whisky I’ve drank over the past few years I’ve rarely ventured into the world of Blair Athol. I mean, sure, we’ve all been 16 years old and gotten totally smashed on half a bottle of Bell’s at a [...]

Lady of the Glen – latest releases

November 4, 2014 by Chris +

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It’s quite nice to come home from work to find a “Sorry, you were out…” card from Royal Mail, as it usually means making a trip to my local Post Office and returning home with some whisky. Either that or I end up [...]

Lady of the Glen Bunnahabhain 26yo

July 1, 2014 by Chris +

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It’s always a good day when an email from Gregor Hannah, Director of the independent bottlers ‘Lady of the Glen’, arrives in my inbox. Invariably it’s to let me know they’re about to release another cracking single cask [...]

Clans and Drams

May 2, 2014 by Jason +

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We all live and thrive on what is, essentially, a massive spinning ball of dirt with a core of lava which all happens to be in the big old, grand vacuum of space. We’re tiny in the grand scheme of things but somehow we manage [...]