The Good Dram Show – Episode 283 ‘Tomatin, Teeling, Balblair & Tomintoul’ – This weeks episode of the show is a round up on new and new-ish stuff!
Canada. A very respected country, a country that has produced so many good things over the years. Unfortunately their whiskies have rarely sat well with me. Easy drinking and quite bland a lot of the time, however it’s now time for change! Lot 40 is 100% rye grain and distilled through a copper pot still allowing so much full and interesting flavour to come through. Cherry, mint, caramel and almonds make up the back bone of the whisky, it’s still easy drinking but it’s flavorful and has a bit more punch than a lot of the normal offerings that I’ve had from Canada. Enjoy!
Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 214: Teaninich 10 Year Old 2006 Cadenheads
Mark Dermul, Belgian whiskyblogger, tries a Teaninich. While this Highland distillery celebrated its 200th anniversary last year, and opened a whole new stillhouse this year, Teaninich is still largely unknown. This has everything to do that this is one of Diageo’s workhorses that produces almost exclusively for the blending industry with Johnnie Walker Red Label as biggest customer. There are hardly any official bottlings. I will taste a vatting of two bourbon hogsheads, bottled at drinking strength by Cadenheads in their Small Batch series.
ralfy.com buys blended scotch for a change with ralfy review 744 – Hankey Bannister 12yo Blended Scotch @ 40%vol:
NEW OLD PULTENEY! The Huddart, in some ways, a classic example of the OP brand, in some ways, not. It has character elements of the 12, it’s layered with vanilla, salt and a nice dollop of lemon/natural yogurt smells. The place where it changes up is the use of finishing the whisky in a peated cask. A cask from a distillery that has held peated spirit. Using this opens up different and new elements of OP that may have been missing over the last few years. Cheers!
The Good Dram Show – Episode 282 ‘Gordon & MacPhail‘
In this weeks episode of the show I’ll be looking at some new releases from the Independant bottler Gordon & MacPhail.
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The last of our Japanese reviews for this week, Hibiki 17. Now, as a fore warning, i get a little whimsical in this video. I truly love, well, loved this whisky – it was at one of the first tastings i ever went to and the price then was unbelievable, should’ve bought a whole case to enjoy for the rest of my life, but alas, no. A combination of American, European and Japanese oak casks. This is now a long lost treasure to whisky history and i will treasure the last drops dearly as we bid it a fond farewell. Hibiki 17, it was a pleasure while it lasted.
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Well, well, well. Here we are, Yamazaki. It’s been four years since i last tired this whisky and having only recently tried it again, i thought it just to give it a fair review. When I first tried it, i didn’t get it. I didn’t understand what it was trying to be or where it fit in the world. Luckily, my mind has grown since then (sort of) and i know now that it cuts its own groove in the world of whisky, that groove is now considerably more expensive than what it used to be as well. Check out the video and assess my honest review of Yamazaki’s flagship whisky.
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