Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 402: Three Ships 12 Year Old 2007 Master Distiller’s Private Collection

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, goes to South Africa! Three Ships is a South-African whisky from the Distell group. That explains the ABV, for they bottle Deanton, Bunnahabhain and Tobermory/Ledaig also at this strength, which makes chillfiltration superfluous. Next to this single malt, they also have Bain’s Cape Mountain Grain whisky. But this Three Ships is a single malt and the 12 years old is currently the flagship (see what we did there?) release.

https://youtu.be/iDcZzkjHmxg

ralfy review 893 – Royal Brackla 12yo @46%vol (Sherry)

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 401: Eddu Brocéliande

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tries a French whisky. Eddu is produced by the French Distillerie des Menhirs in Brittany. Founded in 1986, but whisky distilling only started in 1998. As Eddu is actually the Britton word for buckwheat, you’ll realize we’re tasting a grain whisky. Brocéliande is the name of the enchanted forest from the Arthur legends, about an hour’s drive from the distillery. Merlin is rumored to be buried there. Anyway… the whisky first matured five years on casks from the Limousin region before being finished on Breton oak made from trees from the enchanted forest.

https://youtu.be/ClCTkl8bMYI

Bimber, Kings Cross St. Pancras Underground Editions

https://youtu.be/6aMRoiaNeFc

Bimber has developed such a good reputation in such a quick fashion from alot of people I respect in the YouTube world. However, I’m yet to really understand what it is they’re trying to do and who they’re directly appealing to with these releases.

This is part of The Undeground series, referencing the tube stations throughout London. Kings Cross St. Pancras is a tube station I’ve been through after a drunken Saturday night, prior to COVID. And I must say that watching numerous people throw up and sit dazed on a bench made more sense than this whisky

The quality inside the bottle is poor, let’s keep it simple. But these bottles are being encouraged to be opened…but are mostly being sold through auction buy flippers or being held onto in order to develop a full collection. So who is this aimed at, Bimber? Are you wanting everyone to open it and enjoy? If so, what’s going on with the flavour, and indeed the price? Or is it purely for the collectors market to fund the distillery? Because if it is the latter, it doesn’t bother me, but atleast be honest about it.

Now I haven’t tried the rest of the collection, and this is of course a personal opinion, maybe I got the worst one of the four? Maybe I’m right? Let’s see.

Vin’s video – https://youtu.be/ehRuftlCoHk

Mark’s video – https://youtu.be/2WI1IrIGb3Y

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ralfy review 892 Extras – Online Scotch Whisky Awards

ralfy review 892 – Highland Park 10yo @ 40%vol:

https://youtu.be/R13-1k-J1iw

I’ve not done a Jefferson’s video for a long, long time. But it’s better late than never.

As an NDP, Jefferson’s are still knocking out some of the best batch bourbon products on the market, and they’re doing it at a decent price point.

This is bottle 1032 of Batch 1, unsure of the liquids origins, but as a bottled product it is quite excellent. Loads of butterscotch, caramel and baked cheesecake on the nose. The palate is a complex and atypical style. It begins bitter with gentian root and loads of oak, but as that dies away, a wealth of mint, raspberry and cherry comes around, all backed up with spoonfuls of butterscotch and toffee on the finish.

Excellent bourbon, lovely bottle, appropriately priced when available, something worth trying if and when you can find it.

Welcome to this weeks episode of the show. This week it’s a viewers selection tasting as all the samples wee kindly supplied by my good friend Guy Dutton.

https://youtu.be/Wf1vkIUfkWE

ralfy review 891 – Small rant about distillers attitudes.

https://youtu.be/ZOioBRE15tI

The Sazerac 18YO. A whisky that deserves a title, some sort of American knighthood, something that involves a cape.

Older rye is hard to come across, not something that works well from every distillery. But when it comes to Buffalo Trace…well, they’ve still not accepted my marriage proposal.

A whisky with a sweeter, older, alluring nose: tobacco leaf, spearmint and lemon skin. But as the stuff drowns you in luxurious texture, tastes of turmeric, gara marsala, cigar smoke, more gentle lemon and a bright finish of fresh mint julep cocktails.

True luxury and exuberance from the folks at Buffalo Trace. A whisky that truly elevates the blue collar comeradary of rye whisky.

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