ralfy review 910 Extras – Casks and Cryptocurrency

ralfy review 910 – Imperial 1995 18yo @46%vol: (Signatory)

Welcome to another episode of the show. This is the first episode of the show entirely devoted to bottlings of Hazelburn, the triple distilled spirit produced by Springbank.

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Welcome to this weeks episode of the show in which I’ll be taking a look at the character of the spirit produced at Mortlach.

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Extras!

ralfy review 909 Extras – Batch comparison of Ledaig 10yo Malt

Welcome to this weeks episode of the show in which I’ll be reviewing a selection of bottlings from Independent bottler James Eadie.

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WHISKY OF THE YEAR! 

Easily the most difficult decision I’ve had to make in whisky for a LONG time. 

Kilkerran Heavily Peated #4 and Laphroaig 10YO Sherry…who gets the title? 

The first time I tried that Kilkerran, after having split a bottle with my friend, Mike, in London. I didn’t try it for ages, and then it came to filming WW and trying the whiskies the night before. Blown away. The complexity of this young stock is just mind blowing. Yet again, Kilkerran can do no wrong. Im yet to try anything older than their 12YO, or their CS limited releases, but this range has my full attention for the future.

Laphroaig. You can already smell and taste it, right? This sherry cask release ticked every box that I wanted it to. The last few Laphroaig releases had sold out or I had no huge interest in them, minus the Cask Strength releaes. But I’ve grown bored with sherry for many different reasons. My personal view for people who adore the stuff is to just drink more sherry, please! But when it’s incorporated with heavily peated whisky (see our Bowmore 18 Feis Ile video as well), it just works, and it’s the only area I’m really paying attention to with sherry anymore.

The depth of richness within this whisky from sweet butterscotch, tobacco, dry, mineral driven peat, those softer TCP notes. Just incredible and for the price it’s at, with the Lagavulin price increases coming, a worthy, and in my view, a Lagavulin 16 beater. A thunder driven show case of spanish soaked smoke. They smashed it.

Back filming @Thewhiskyshop with @ed – we’re back for 2022!

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ralfy review 909 – Ledaig 10yo @ 46.3%vol: (2022)

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 421: Auchentoshan 13 Year Old 2007 North Star Spirits

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tries another Toshan! Well, well, well… brand new Independent Bottler of the Year North Star Spirits (yes, for the second year in a row, congratulations, Iain!) bottled an Auchentoshan for the first time last summer. How about at that? And it has become a young lad of barely 13 years old, that was allowed to keep his beauty sleep on an oloroso hogshead. In July 2021, this resulted in 330 bottles at 55% ABV. Fan of both Auchentoshan and North Star Spirits, Mark of course could not pass up on this one.

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