Glen Scotia Icons of Campbeltown #3, 51.7%

THE REVIEW

They always say that the third release of anything is the trickiest. Well, it seems that Glen Scotia have taken that phrase and thrown it out of the window. Icons of Campbeltown Release 3 is a 12-year-old single malt, mostly matured in ex-bourbon casks, finished in Tawny Port barrels for a maximum of 9 months. What has this resulted in? A single malt whisky that is dense with chocolate, hazelnuts, jammy Vimto fruits and all of the coastal Campbeltown saltiness that you could ever want.

I’ve sadly never tried the previous releases, but they’ve always had an incredible reputation behind them, so this tricky third release has very much quashed that saying with ease. Glen Scotia are not shy to experiment with their cask finishing prowess, and this is a massive indication of that. Big shoutout to The Whiskey Wash for sending this bottle over to me to review. Their website is also linked here thewhiskeywash.com

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Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 579: Ledaig 27 Year Old 1995 Berry Bros & Rudd

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tries a rather old Ledaig. Recently, he attended a tasting by Care for Craft Spirits in Ghent, in the coziest tapas bar in the city, Bar Terroir, where none other than Mike Harrison, Sales Development Director of independent bottler Berry Brothers & Rudd, presented some bottles. One of the highlights of the evening for Mark was this 27-year-old Ledaig. Distilled in 1995 and aged for almost three decades in a hogshead, the cask yielded 224 bottles.

https://youtu.be/ozCwepmB7ps

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The Good Dram Show – Episode 609 ‘Retribution Distilling’

Welcome to this week’s episode of the show in which I’ll be taking a look at a selection of bottlings including new make spirit from Retribution Distilling in Somerset.

The Good Dram Show with Chris Goodrum

Episode 609 – Now That’s Intriguing New Make..!

Filmed in The Study ~ Nottingham

Featuring
Retribution Distilling Standard New Make 63%
Retribution Distilling Alternate New Make 65%
Retribution Distilling Peated New Make 65%
Retribution Distilling English Single Malt Batch PR002 53.3%
Retribution Distilling English Single Malt Batch PR003 53%
Retribution Distilling Work In Progress Tawny Port Cask 60%
www.retributiondistilling.co.uk

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Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 578: Arran 8 Year Old 2015 SMWS 121.111 Tempura Tincture

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tries a Society bottling. The Scotch Malt Whisky Society certainly enjoys Arran, as evidenced by the fact that they have already bottled quite a few single casks. This is, for example, This is, for example, the 111^th cask (at the time of writing, they have even released 121.115!). This 111th edition was named Tempura Tincture. Mark received a substantial bottle residue from their Belgian ambassador Chris Lauriers with the task to definitely taste it. Mark has absolutely no objections to that, Chris!

https://youtu.be/gPR_CDwhjtk

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