American Oak, BRIGHT PURPLE…OR IS IT PINK? A new Master Blender and a fresh look at Macallan, does it live up to the hype of Editions 2 & 4?
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This weeks episode of the show takes a look at the re-vamped Cu Bocan range as well as a couple of new limited edition releases from Tomatin.
Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 280: Auchentoshan 18 Year Old 1978 Scott’s Selection
Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tries an older independent bottling of Auchentoshan. In his book, this is now a golden oldie. Mark has had it in his collection for a while, but only the one bottle so he had not yet tried it. Thanks to social media he found someone offering up samples (in one of these so-called bottle share groups) and was able to secure a big sample, so that he can finally find out if this is any good. By now it has spent more time in the bottle than it ever did on the cask.
Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 279: Auchentoshan 19 Year Old 1996 The Maltman
Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tries an Auchentoshan from The Maltman. He tried this malt years ago for the first time during a whisky dinner in The Hielander, the famous Scottish restaurant in Alkmaar, Holland, with the indomitable Wullie Macmorland behind the stove. He was so enchanted with it that he ran to the shop the very next day to buy a bottle. But as there was only one, it went into the collection and remained unopened. Fast forward to 2019 and his buddy Manny finds another bottle in another shop. Did he want it? Obviously. So now Mark can retry the malt without ‘damaging’ the collection. This Auchentoshan first matured on bourbon casks and was then finished for several months on an Amontillado sherry cask.
Welcome to this weeks episode of the show. This week continues the ‘accelerated maturation’ theme that I briefly touched on last week.
Unfortunately there won’t be a review this week..back on track next week!
Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 278: Glen Flagler 5 Year Old
Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tries a lost malt. In 1964 Inver House Distillers built a grain distillery on the industrial estate Moffat at Airdrie, some 20 kilometers east of Glasgow. The grain whisky would be called Garnheath. But like at many grain distilleries at the time, some pot stills were installed, to produce three types of malt as well: Glen Flagler, Killyloch and Islebrae. Obviously they are very hard to find, knowing that the distillery was closed already in 1985. Fast forward to 2019 : a bottle of Glen Flagler 5 Year Old finds its way to Mark. He never passes up the opportunity to taste liquid history!
It’s Laphroaig Cask Strength, no need for other words.
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