Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 309: Scarabus Islay Single Malt

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky vlogger, tries another undisclosed Ileach. Hunter Laing & Co, the company that runs the new Ardnahoe Distillery on Islay, jumped on the Feis Ile bandwagon in 2019 with the release of this single malt dubbed Scarabus. Mark will have you know there is a Scarrabus (with double ‘r’) Farm very close to Bridgend. Writings show that there was even a pot still there between 1817 and 1818, but apparently it was never operational. This still does not offer us any clue as to the contents of this bottle. But we can all agree, Mark feels, that the bottle looks stunning.

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Welcome to this weeks episode of the show. Today it’s time for some American stuff, including my go to Bourbon for beginners!

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ralfy visits Tomatin, with an integrity malt.

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This week it’s all about Banff! Scottish distillery rather than beautiful Canadian countryside. This distillery just wasn’t designed to make whisky. So many explosions, so many fires, luckily though it turns out they make good whisky.

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ralfy gets nostalgic !

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Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 308: Tormore 24 Year Old 1992 WhiskyBroker for Van Zuylen

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky vlogger, tries a Tormore. Tormore is a distillery that does not appear on Mark’s radar often, but thanks to a friend in Holland he was able to get his hands on a beautiful 24 years old that was bottled especially for Van Zuylen – a well-known whisky shop near The Hague. And what a lovely Tormore it turned out to be. Almost as lovely as the classified building of the distillery itself!

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Welcome to this weeks episode of the show. Today I’m looking at the Bellevoye range of blended French malt whiskies.

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The details we await…………..we’ll have to wait until next week, Phil is having technical issues….

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 307: Highland Park 9 Year Old 1998 Signatory Dumpy

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky vlogger, tries a old yet young Highland Park. This truly is a golden oldie, bottled in those old fashioned dumpy bottles that Signatory used in the last Century. Distilled in 1988 (the year in which Mark got his driving permit) and bottled in 1998. The malt matured for 9 years on a sherry cask and has thus spent more than double that time in the bottle.

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. . . all about an Oban !

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