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Port…do you like it as a cask finish?

I typically haven’t. Odd exceptions have been from Glen Scotia and Talisker, but everything has left me feeling like it doesn’t really work. It exaggerates alcohol and always leaves a slightly burnt taste in my mouth. But not anymore!

This port cask finish from Clonakilty has changed my opinion, or atleast opened it up to the world of port. Drenched in peaches, cherries and red grapes – it has managed to work in tandem with the spirit and develop into a welcomg style, combining the best of Ireland and Portugal into one!

The finale in our Clonakilty series!

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 397: Cragganmore 2007 Distillers Edition

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, publishes his first Cragganmore rambling! There isn’t all that much of single malt from Cragganmore on the market. The core range exists of the classic 14 years old and this yearly repeated Distillers Edition. But apart from some special releases we are done here. That has everything to do with the fact that most of this malt goes into some of the world’s best sold blends, Johnnie Walker Green Label mostly. What is not widely known, is that Cragganmore actually uses mildly peated barely! This Distillers Edition, distilled in 2007 and bottled in 2019, got its second maturation on port casks.

https://youtu.be/dUl33cqOMI4

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 396: Dalwhinnie 2002 Distillers Edition

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tries another Distillers Edition, a series from Diageo in which they offer up their classic malts with a second maturation on a different type of cask. In the case of Dalwhinnie, which is old Gallic for ‘a meeting place’, this is an oloroso sherry cask. This is the release from 2019, so a distillate from 2004.

https://youtu.be/pTEyKWuYLnU

Welcome to this weeks episode of the show in which I’ll be taking a look at the Character of Islay Whisky Company’s range of bottlings.

https://youtu.be/gZMsOcTqYoI

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Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 395: Glenkinchie 2007 Distillers Edition

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, publishes his first Glenkinchie rambling! The Glenkinchie distillery has been renovated and since October 2020 has been turned into the Lowland Home of Johnnie Walker. This Lowlander is one of the fingerprint malts in that famous blend. Today Mark tries this so-called Distillers Edition, in which the malt has gotten a second maturation. In the case of Glenkinchie this is on a Amontillado sherry cask.

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I like grain…technically, we all do. But as a lighter, easier and more affordable style of whisky, it really can rock the world of whisky drinkers.

This Single Grain from Clonakilty is finished in Bordeaux casks, prior to which it was sat in ex-bourbon and both have imparted some wonderful flavours of strawberry, chocolate, cherry and caramelised white chocolate. These are all things I love and now there’s booze too!

Another fun and very well put-together example of Clonakilty’s style!

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