Millburn and Linlithgow – One distillery is northern and not particularly well known at all. It’s now a restaurant and hotel, no signs of it’s whisky heritage apart from the building that once made and stored the stuff. The other is a treasured lowland distillery with two different names: Linlithgow and St. Magdelene. The site was an leper colony, a convent, a hospital and a distillery before its closure in 1983. Two long lost to history but beyond contrasting and extremely different whiskies.

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In this weeks show I’ll be taking a look at Glenfarclas. Is it just a one dimensional sherry monster? Have a look and find out my conclusion.

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Welcome to this weeks episode of the show in which I’ll be taking a look at a relatively new independent bottling company called Heroes & Heretics.

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This week, Glenugie! an unusual distillery that started out as Invernettie in 1831. Like most of it’s kind, many name changes and many different owners later, the doors closed in 1983. This Signatory bottling is 57.2% with a 100 month, Oloroso cask finish. That’s not a typo, 100 month finish at 33YO

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ralfy.com shares some Deanston !

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Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 305: Images of Tomintoul Malts of Scotland

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky vlogger, tries a confusing malt… This bottle from Malts of Scotland is dubbed ‘Images of Tomintoul – Carrbridge Packhorse Bridge’, which might put you on the wrong track. Sure, the Tomintoul distillery is close to this bridge, but still 40 kilometres away. Closer, about 22 kilometres, you’ll find the Balmenach Distillery where Mark believes this malt was produced.

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Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 304: Blair Athol 10 Year Old 2007 Signatory Vintage

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky vlogger, gets offered a sample. ‘Hey, Mark, I have here a Blair Athol. I was wondering if you had tried it yet.’ Mark confessed, with almost 4500 tasted whiskies on my counter, he does not know this by heart. ‘I’ll have to check my website,’ he declares. ‘It’s not on there,’ Benny declares, expectantly holding the bottle with a good measure still in it. ‘Well, then I have not yet tried it’, Mark smiles, accepting the bottle in thanks. ‘Let’s finish off this bottle and update our list.’

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Welcome to this weeks episode of the show. To keep you entertained during the lock down I’m reviewing a number of bottlings from the independent bottling company Hannah Whisky Merchants under their Lady of the Glen label.

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Closed Distillery Series, Part 2. This week we’re looking at a Speyside with a  name change and a Highland who should really still be around. Caperdonich: Oroginally called Glen Grant No.2, they used to send the distillate over the road to GG1 via an over-road pipe, that only lasted for five years. Reopened in 1965 and named Caperdonich, the distillery was eventually demolished in 2010. Glenury Royal: Founded by a man who was the first to walk one thousand miles in one thousand hours…you hope his whisky is better than his achievements. Founded in 1825 and closing in 1983, Glenury went under radar for a long time, it’s now a highly sort after bottling with a high value price tag.