ralfy review 870 – Mortlach 13yo @ 47.5%vol (Carn Mor)

 Welcome to this weeks episode of the show in which I’ll be taking a look at the new make spirit and the different cask types that are being used at Lindores Abbey Distillery.

https://youtu.be/BD54Lag3tsU

Video for this week.

https://youtu.be/aUk6mNI-XkU 

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 378: Wolfburn Private Cask 2017/540 for Tom Haseldonckx

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tries a private cask of Wolfburn from a friend. In February 2019 Mark tried this whisky before it could be named as such. The cask was filled in November 2017, so it would take at least until November 2020 before it was worthy of the name. Tom Haseldonckx, owner of this private cask #540, did not want to risk any Brexit entanglements and had it bottled and shipped before year’s end. So it is a youngling, which could not be helped. That does not stop us from enjoying this, however. Mark keeps some water handy, for it’s at cask strength.

https://youtu.be/jxOrJ13YovE

ralfy review 869 Extras – Spot-researching better Indi-malts.

ralfy review 869 – Bunnahabhain 11yo @ 43%vol: (Gordon & MacPhail)

The glen of the wild geess, originally known as the Burnfoot distillery, then Glen Guin and now Glengoyne. A whisky distilled in the highlands but with cask maturation in the lowlands, thanks to the highland line for that.

No peat is used in the drying of its barley, just pure hot air. Which gives it a distinct difference from a lot of its highland brothers and sisters. Like a lowland, it is lighter, brighter and crisp.

American and European oak sherry casks go into its maturation, not sure of that is its whole maturation though, as the smells and flavours would invoke a higher bourbon cask influence.

https://youtu.be/Jd0wQscteL4

Welcome to this weeks episode of the show in which I’ll be asking whether Australian distilleries are obsessed with sherry casks!

https://youtu.be/gN_fdbvy6fs

ralfy review 868 Extras – Advice on your 1st Indi-malt purchase

ralfy review 868 – Glen Ord 11yo @ 56.1%vol: (A.D. Rattray.)