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Glen Scotia 9YO Campbeltown Malts Festival, 54.3%

https://youtu.be/UtBseOlcHPc

Welcome, one and all, to one of the most anticipated parts of the year! Glen Scotia and their Campbeltown Malts Festival release. A heavily peated, cask strength, nine-year-old single malt. Initially matured in ex-bourbon casks and then finished for no more than 6 months in Ribera del Duero Spanish red wine casks. What a combination!

The last few years of Glen Scotia Festival release bottles have been good, but didn’t wow me. It’s an unfair thing to say in all honesty. It’s a hard task to like all of them when they’re designed to be so different from the start. This one happily hits all of the sweet spots I want from a limited release, a fairly affordable bottle from Glen Scotia.

The nose is weighted with smoke, sea salt, and ash. However, and this isn’t something I’ve been able to do with a lot of cask strength whiskies, you can take a huge whiff of the liquid, a really deep pull on this thing and it is decadent with cherry, raspberry, strawberry and melted dark chocolate.

It is a truly wonderful thing from the folks at Glen Scotia and something that has honestly rekindled my love for this distillery. It never waned, but it can get lost in the massive world of whisky and everything that it can offer to us.

This is a must buy for all of us in 2025. It is a peated delight that drops you into a world of smoke, salt, rich red fruits, and bountiful amounts of dark chocolate.

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The Good Dram Show – Episode 586 ‘Bruichladdich Octomore’ – Welcome to this week’s episode of the show in which peat is definitely the theme as I’ll be looking at the Octomore 14’s and 15’s.

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Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 556: Caol Ila 8 Year Old Dram4Charity

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, enjoys a whisky released for charity. Dram4Charity, a collective of whisky-loving philanthropists, is launching a series of whiskies this year with all proceeds again being donated to the ALS Fund of Alain Verspecht. The series is named ‘Frames of Freedom’ and the labels are designed by Alain. The series kicks off with a release of 60 bottles of Caol Ila aged 8 years.

https://youtu.be/8xK8yjRUnEE

Beer52/Woven Blended Grain Whisky, 46%

How many of you have taken up a whisky subscription?

When John from Beer52 got in touch with me about running this on the channel, I instantly thought it was a brilliant idea. A 35cl bottle at 46% for £35 a month with one of the most detailed whisky magazines I’ve ever come across – Stramash.

The whisky on show today is a blended grain whisky put together by the geniuses at Woven! Woven is a rather wonderful blending company based in Leith, Edinburgh. They’ve built a reputation on creating some very unique blends by sourcing whiskies from Scotland, as well as across the world.

This particular blend that was put together for the Beer52 subscription is a mix of mid-90s Invergordon as well as some Port Dundas grain. The liquid also has a range of cask influences from ex-bourbon, virgin oak, ex-sherry, ex-port, and apera casks. Apera casks are essentially an ex-sherry barrel, but it’s an Australian sherry. They can’t legally call it that, so here we have the term ‘apera’ – but it tastes quite similar.

A huge range of rich, sweet flavour profiles that culminate in this rather incredible whisky that contains thirty-year-old stocks.

Check out the Beer52 website below, and be sure to use our discount code so that you only pay for the shipping of your first parcel!

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Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 555: Waterford Fenniscourt

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tries an Irish from a very recently closed distillery… It is a bit distressing, but Waterford has gone bankrupt after only ten years of operation. The distillery is currently under administration. However, that does not stop Mark from tasting this peated Irish whiskey in the so-called Arcadian Series. The whiskey is very young, just three years old, and matured in four different types of casks. It is said that the barley was processed with 38ppm. That’s actually quite a high peat level, but you know that not much of this remains after production, of course.

https://youtu.be/wTQiU7wsjME

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