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!
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!
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 1st December 2009 and bottled on 9th October 2019 making is just two months shy of being ten years old. Lo and behold, it’s a stunner!
ralfy review 830 – Lagavulin 12yo @ 56.5%vol:
It’s time for another episode of the show on blended Scottish whiskies.
ralfy.com revisits an old sherry-bomb.
Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 315: Glen Elgin 21 Year Old 1998 Mobsters on Mopeds
Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky vlogger, enjoys a candy-like Glen Elgin: ‘Ah, there they are again with a new release, the boys and girls of BYOB-C (say ‘biopsy’), with the sixth release in their funny, but very taste series ‘Mobsters on Mopeds’. After the Blair Athol 2000, Cambus 1991, Ardmore 1998, Ledaig 2007 and Old Rhosdu 1993, for this spring they turned their attention on a fruity Speysider: Glen Elgin 1998. This one matured on a butt.’
