Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 320: Port Dundas 20 Year Old 1990 Diageo Special Edition

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky vlogger, found an older release of grain. Port Dundas closed just shy of two centuries of operation. The distillery closed the doors on the 1^st of July 2009. The demolition of the iconic chimney was even broadcast live on television. Mark will taste an older one that Diageo launched in their yearly Special Editions of 2011. It was the first grain ever in that bespoke series. First it matured for three years on bourbon casks, then it got an impressive 17 year old second maturation on a combination of European oak, first fill bourbon casks and fomer sherry casks. The color says it all!

https://youtu.be/NTy_B9b-8pU

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 319: Cambus 23 Year Old 1991 Signatory Vintage

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky vlogger, tries a grain from a closed distillery. Cambus is no more. The distillery, founded in 1813, closed in 1993 and was converted into a modern, semi-automatic cooperage. In 2014 Signatory bottled a refill sherry butt from 1991 in those beautiful decanters from their Cask Strength Collection.

https://youtu.be/ruo-vdW7HAs

Welcome to this weeks episode of the show in which I’ll be reviewing the remainder of the Duncan Taylor samples that I received recently.

https://youtu.be/lZTWpr2rH-c

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 318: Strathclyde 30 Year Old WhiskyBroker

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky vlogger, tries a grain whisky. They do not only produce grain whisky at Strathclyde, they also make a gin. And while it is not well-known in Mark’s neck of the woods, Seager’s Gin – named after the founder Seager Evans – is a household name in the U.K. for over half a century. Mark tries a single grain from 1987 that after 29 years was re-casked from a bourbon cask into a rum barrel by WhiskyBroker, on which it slept for another year.

https://youtu.be/_WnI0OL6hMc

This week we’re taking a look at my most local distilleries offerings, The Lakes Distillery. Established in 2011, The Lakes have gone from strength to strength regarding their own distillates. Today we compare Cask Strength Release #1 against their newest #3 bottling. Sherry  and red wine soaked, they offer and English alternative to your classic Speyside and Highland Sherry bombs! Cheers!

https://youtu.be/RIf8Jx1aBvk

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 317: North British 28 Year Old 1991 3006 Whisky

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky vlogger, tries a grain! If you take the tram from the Edinburgh airport to the heart of the Scottish capital, you will pass this huge distillery without realizing it. The chance that you notice it is small, because you’ll probably be looking out the other window, checking out the famous Murray Field Stadium. Moreover, the distillery is not open to the public (Mark tried). This 28 years old North British was bottled by Jop Boer, a Dutch indie, under his banner of 3006 Whisky. It is a former brandy cask!

https://youtu.be/wNTsf6mTkHQ

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 316: Arran 9 Year Old 2009 Private Cask #09/844 for Belgium

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky vlogger, got his hands on another private cask from Arran. This sherry hogshead – cask #09/844 – yielded 292 botttes and was selected by a bunch of Belgians: Top Whisky, Dram242, whisky restaurant De Cluysenaer and the Whiskybrowser. It was distilled on 1^st December 2009 and bottled on 9^th October 2019 making is just two months shy of being ten years old. Lo and behold, it’s a stunner! 

https://youtu.be/kmP2PlRN_qM

ralfy review 830 – Lagavulin 12yo @ 56.5%vol:

It’s time for another episode of the show on blended Scottish whiskies.

https://youtu.be/gji1QPT5jX0

The details we await………