ralfy review 914 – Port Charlotte 10yo @50%vol: (2022)

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 427: Lagavulin 11 Year Old Offerman Edition

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tries a US-only Lagavulin. Nick Offerman is an American actor and comedian who makes no secret of the fact that he loves to drink Lagavulin. He even had this included in the script by the screenwriters of the TV series Parks & Recreation, so that his character Ron Swanson also likes Lagavulin. It was inevitable that a Lagavulin Offerman Edition would appear, being an 11-year-old.

https://youtu.be/w_SldtEodi0

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 426: Caol Ila 10 Year Old 2010 Old Particular for Our Belgian Friends

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tries a special Coal Ila. This Caol Ila was bottled by Douglas Laing in their well-known Old Particular series, but stands out for two reasons. Firstly, you can see the Belgian tricolor on the label, because it is exclusively bottled ‘for our Belgian friends’ and secondly it is a single cask that was bottled at cask strength. The refill hogshead thus yielded 296 bottles. It is very pale, by the way.

https://youtu.be/ac5tMguNbxE

ralfy review 913 Extras – Keeping bottles for a long time successfully.

ralfy review 913 – Inchfad 14yo @49%vol (North Star)

ralfy review 912 Extras – Dunnage or Palleting of casks ?

Welcome to this weeks episode of the show in which I’ll be looking at the second release of the Mackmyra Intelligens AI:02 and asking the question – “Can computers make good whisky?”

https://youtu.be/sT3hWvjs91c

ralfy review 912 – Loch Lomond 18yo @46%vol: (2022)

https://youtu.be/ahpzkoPPa4o

I never thought I would be this flabbergasted by any whisky. When you’ve been tasting spirits for this long you don’t really think that anything can shock you in a new way anymore. How wrong I was, and it took this exquisite bottle of Bushmills to prove me wrong.

Spending the first thirteen years of it’s life in ex-bourbon and ex-oloroso casks, it was then transferred to maderia casks for sixteen years! Bit of a stretch of the word ‘finish’, but it works, nonetheless.

A huge amount of this whisky, for me, is the nose. The melding of toffee, coffee, tobacco and this wonderfully sweet and mouth watering minty aroma is jaw dropping. Other whiskies have had this this? Yes, they have. But none have delivered it quite the way this one has.

Nostlagia in the tobacco note is a key thing for me, so many smells of childhood captured in a liquid.

This is the best Irish whisky I’ve ever tried, it even surpasses the greats of Redbreast 15 and 21YO, but it is a single cask. As a result, numbers are low and it has to be treated as the exception that it is. With that said it is still on a different level of extraordinary.

ralfy review 911 Extras – Beginners guide to an Infinity bottle