Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 298: Clynelish 20 Year Old 1996 200^th Anniversary Release

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tastes a celebratory Clynelish! In honor of the 200th Anniversary of the distillery, Clynelish released this exclusive bottling, composed with a very small amount of sherry casks that were especially put aside for the occasion in 1996. We don’t need to tell you these sold like sweets – even though it was only available at the distillery and despite the hefty price tag of 350 pounds. Today you’ll pay double or triple that amount. Oh, well. Luckily Mark was able to score a bottle at the original price through a friend.

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It’s experimenting time on this weeks episode of the GoodDramShow https://youtu.be/gGUPoW_EQUw featuring Tobermory Distillery.

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Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 297: Port Dundas 23 Year Old 1995 Cask Strength The Ultimate

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky vlogger, tries a grain whisky. Did you know that the Port Dundas Distillery was founded in 1811 by Daniel MacFarlane but that in 1813 Brown, Goulier & Co built a second distillery in the same industrial area north of Glasgow and actually called it… Port Dundas Distillery as well? That would be quite impossible today, of course. In 1865 they merged and in 2009 the distillery closed. Mark tries a grain from 1995 at cask strength bottled by the Dutch company van Wees under their The Ultimate label.

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Today, the Sanaig! A bottle that in all honesty passed me by for a while. I’m never normally one to buy a whisky based on its colour, but this one swung me. Some particularly active sherry casks have given this batch a wonderfully dark colour, something on-par with Glendronach and Macallan, whilst still maintaining that decadently savoury and sweet smoke. A true must for all peated whisky fans and sherry fans alike. Cheers!

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Welcome to this weeks episode of the show in which I’ll be looking at the newly repackaged Arran range. There maybe quite a bit of waffling, but it will all make sense!

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A love letter from me to the far flung Orkney legends, Highland Park!

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Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 296: Spey Fumare

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tries a lesser known malt. The Speyside Distillery is something of an unknown. Most of the production goes into blends in Asia. Apart from that they also produced Beinn Dhu, Black Burn, Cu Dubh, Drumguish and Glentromie whisky as well as the Speyside single malt. That was recently rechristened to simply Spey and appears to be very popular in Taiwan. Today Mark will try the Spey Fumare, which means smoky. As far as I am aware, this is the first and only official release of the peated version of this light Speysider.

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Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 295: Mortlach 15 Year Old Six Kingdoms

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky vlogger, tries the final Game of Thrones malt. The Mortlach Six Kingdoms is the final release in the (in)famous Game of Thrones series, that consists of 9 single malts and three Johnnie Walker blends. The so-called whisky aficionados give this one much grief and spit it out as yet another marketing stunt to promote the second batch of the GOT malts (the first was scooped up by collectors and thus Diageo’s strategy to reach a new and younger drinking audience failed). It was finished on ex-bourbon casks, meaning they ‘softened it up’ a bit for a broader audience. I am pleasantly surprised by both price tag and ABV, but the real question of course is: is it any good?

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