Glen Grant 72YO

THE VIDEO

How does a whisky stay at 52.6% ABv for 72 years? Well, those secrets will remain with Gordon & MacPhail, for now, let’s focus on the taste!

Matured for just over seven decades in an American oak sherry cask (that’s quite unusual in itself), this release was distilled in 148 and bottles in 2020, somehow yielding 290 bottles. Wild.

Amazingly, this whisky isn’t about a lot of those classic sherry notes. It isn’t very raisin driven or full of the Christmas Cake flavours. It’s drenched in almost every profile from sweet to savoury you could imagine, lingering in a wonderfully herbaceous area for a while with mint, oregano and absinthe. Possibly the best older whisky I’ve ever tried, it seems that a majority of reviewers who have tried this agree, it is a simply outstanding bottle of whisky that has quite the mystery behind its origins.

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The Good Dram Show – Episode 643 ‘New Releases’

Welcome to this week’s round up episode of the show in which I’ll be taking a look at a selection of new releases from Penderyn, Torabhaig and the as yet unreleased inaugural release from Jackton distillery. The Good Dram Show with Chris Goodrum Episode 642 – For Once I’m Ahead of the Game…! Filmed in The Study Nottingham

Featuring

RAER Original Blended Scotch Whisky 40%

RAER Single Malt Whisky from Jackton Distillery 48.7%

https://raer.co.uk

Penderyn ‘Special Release’ 12 year old 46%

Penderyn Single Cask 21 year old 59.9%

https://www.penderyn.wales

Torabhaig ‘The Distillers Series: Iona’s First Edition’ 60.9%

Torabhaig ‘The Distillers Series: Niall’s First Edition’ 59.3%

https://torabhaig.com

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 612: Boann Single Pot Still Madeira Cask

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tries a new Irish whiskey. The Boann distillery was founded in 2015 by the Cooney family in Drogheda, about 40km north of Dublin. The distillery was built in 2017, but distilling could only begin in 2019. We mainly know them from the whiskey brand The Whistler, for which they brought sourced whiskey to the market while waiting for their own distillate, but in 2024 the moment finally arrived: Boann whiskey had reached the legal age to be bottled. In the glass is their Single Pot Still, which matured in a Madeira cask.

https://youtu.be/_FZmNEw4j28

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Talisker 47YO Magma Release

THE REVIEW

New American oak charred with hot basalt rocks? Yes, you heard that right. A throwback to the Isle of Skye’s rugged past, forged and moulded by thousands of years of volcanic activity.

Here we have a nearly five decade old Talisker that spent most of its life in refil American oak hogsheads, before a four month finish in these unusually charred fresh American oak casks. Talisker has done this before with a Special Release bottle, albeit, not as old.

This was another incredible opportunity to try such an old product, but does the flavour balance out the massive price tag?

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The Good Dram Show – Episode 645 ‘Blended Scotch Whisky’

Welocme to this week’s episode of the show in which I’ll be looking at a selection of Blended Scotch whiskies, across a number of price points. Are they worth it? Are there compromises? That’s a couple of questions that I’ll hopefully answer! The Good Dram Show with Chris Goodrum Episode 645 – Barman, My Blend Lacks Intensity …! Filmed in The Study Nottingham Filmed & Edited by Chris Goodrum

Featuring

Ballaglass Blended Scotch Whisky 40% www.lombardscotchwhisky.com
Label 5 Blended Scotch Whisky ‘Classic Black’ 40% www.label-5.com/en/
The Tweeddale 14 year old Blended Scotch (Batch 4) 46% tweeddalewhisky.com
Hankey Bannister 21 year old 40% www.hankeybannister.com
The Lost Distilleries Blend Batch 5 50.4% www.atombrands.com
Kinloch Anderson 35 year old Blended Scotch Whisky 46% www.kinlochanderson.com

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Port Ellen Prism 46YO, 57.8%

THE REVEIW

A one of one release made just for a massive charity auction, and somehow a sample of it has ended up at my little office in Salford. Matured for forty-six years and bottled at 57.8% ABV, this Port Ellen’s stocks were initially matured in refill hogsheads for a majority of its life, before being married together in a refill American oak puncheon for the final decade of its maturation. This is an insane opportunity and does the whisky deliver as much as it’s $500,000 price tag warrants? Well, you’ll have to watched the video to find that out.

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