https://youtu.be/jdfVLwsdCVY

Batch 5! 85% Bourbon Oak, 15% Sherry Oak…but is it as good as Batch 4?

Kilkerran have produced, literally, the best tasting younger whiskies that I’ve ever come across. Ever. Ardnamurchan also do very well here too.

The list of goodies:

Natural Colour

Non Chill Filtered

Cask Strength

Heavily Peated

£46.

£46!!!! How do Kilkerran make money on this?

This distillery, these bottles, even though they’re now sold out, show off how good younger Scottish whisky can really be. Peat heads, you folks love younger whiskies! Sherey fans might have to wait a little while longer to enjoy the impact of a sherry cask…or you could just drink sherry? Might make things cheaper in the long run.

Anyway, this stuff is incredible, even if Batch 4 was my preference, this is still, without doubt, the best bottle of whisky that any whisky fan can buy for below £50. Just f*****g exceptional.

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Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 420: Auchentoshan 18 Year Old 2003 SMWS 5.78

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tastes SMWS 5.78. At the whisky festival in Ghent, his good friend Chris Lauriers stood behind the table of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society. He beckoned Mark closer and said, ‘I have something for you’. Mark saw the number 5.78 on the label and knew immediately that I had to taste it. After all, number 5 means Auchentoshan. It’s already the 78th single cask bottled by the SMWS of Mark’s favorite Lowlander. In this case an 18 years old from 2003 matured on a 1st fill ex-bourbon barrel bottled at no less than 54.9%. Wow!

https://youtu.be/G3u_5G0FKbA

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Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 419: Auchentoshan 17 Year Old 2000 The Ultimate 850^th Cask

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tries yet another Auchentoshan. The Ultimate barely needs introduction. The Dutch independent bottler van Wees releases single casks under this banner, often at cask strength. Meanwhile, there are more than 1000 and in the run-up to that they released some special bottles and this one belongs in that list. This was the 850th single cask in The Ultimate, a 17-year-old Auchentoshan at 60.2% ABV. That’s why it was released in a nice box.

https://youtu.be/KbizXh47Kck

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 418: Auchentoshan 14 Year Old 2002 Provenance

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tries a teenage Toshan. Provenance is a series by Douglas Laing and I already tasted 3 Auchentoshan bottled under this label, an 11-year-old from 2000, a 12-year-old from 2001 and a 13-year-old from 2002. Douglas Laing released a 14-year-old in 2016 and that now sits in Mark’s glass.

https://youtu.be/v580KI-M64U

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 417: Auchentoshan 17 Year Old Bordeaux Wine Finish

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tastes an older release of Auchentoshan. A finish on wine casks is always a bit tricky, but Auchentoshan usually gets it right. And while Mark has tasted many of these, this 17 years old bottled in 2002 was one of the first that was finished on these Saint Julien Bordeaux wine casks and one he had not yet tried before!

https://youtu.be/pTBueX0lCyE

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 416: Auchentoshan 22 Year Old 1998 Klubb23

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tastes yet another Auchentoshan. His friends from Klubb23 got their hands on a cask of Auchentoshan, bottled especially for the Dram Brothers Whisky Society of Luxembourg. Mark had to hurry to get his hands on one as there are only 70 bottles available. It’s a belter!

https://youtu.be/k63KjJUJ1Bo

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Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 415: Linkwood 33 Year Old 1988 The Whisky Jury

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tries a very old Linkwood. ‘In remembrance of Mr Peter Cowell’ is written in small print on the label. The Scotsman Cowell recently died and had this cask of Linkwood in his possession. The children sold the cask and that’s how it ended up with Joeri from The Whisky Jury. They couldn’t have found of a better bottler, Mark thinks. Joeri even gave them a few bottles to pay tribute to their father. It is a refill hogshead that has been sleeping for no less than 33 years since March 1988. ‘I didn’t even have my driver’s license yet’, Mark quips. After just over three decades, the cask still yielded 176 bottles. You can find pictures of the actual barrel on the Facebook account of The Whisky Jury.

https://youtu.be/oiNBg9pCgXg

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 414: Crown 3 Year Old 2018 Belgian Single Grain Cask #136

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tries a new Belgian grain whisky. In September 2021 Mark was introduced to the Belgian bottler Crown Spirits from Bruges for the first time. He then tasted 4 of their previous releases and look: number 5 has just been launched. It is a Belgian single grain – distilled at Braeckman Distillers on 4 January 2018 – and matured on a first  fill oloroso hogshead. Bottled on 26 October 2021. ‘Aged  45  months’ is mentioned on the label, making it an almost-4-year old.

https://youtu.be/CDe-xprOTRo