ralfy review 1039 Extras – My view of Feis Ile Whisky Festival.

Compass Box Flaming Heart 2022 – The Unbottling

Adam tries the Compass Box Flaming Heart 2022 Edition, as featured in the July 2024 Whisky Showcase. Our members scored it 93.74 and put it in the “Smoky & Earthy” flavour profile.

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The Good Dram Show – Episode 564 ‘Mossburn & Brave New Spirits’

Welcome to this week’s episode of the show featuring new releases from Mossburn Distillers and Brave New Spirits in their Cask Noir series, The Good Dram Show with Chris Goodrum Episode 564 – BNS + MBD = DGEOTS

Filmed in The Kitchen Nottingham

Featuring

Mossburn Distillers No37 ‘Vintage Casks’ North British 2008 (15 year old) 58.8%

Mossburn Distillers No38 ‘Vintage Casks’ Craigellachie 2007 (16 year old) 52.4%

Mossburn Distillers No36 ‘Vintage Casks’ Inchgower 2011 (12 year old) 57.1%

Brave New Spirits Cask Noir ‘Ghost of the Hill’ Port Dundas 2006 (17 year old) 54.6%

Brave New Spirits Cask Noir ‘Ivy In Tennessee’ Blair Athol 2011 (11 year old) 56.7%

Brave New Spirits Cask Noir ‘Telfords Travels in the Rhone Valley’ Craigellachie 2014 (8 year old) 55.1%

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 536: Johnnie Walker Double Black

Mark Dermul, Belgian whiskyblogger, goes Double Black. We all know the Johnnie Walker Black Label, Diageo’s 12-year-old flagship product. The first Black Label was launched in 1909 and succeeded the Old Highland Whisky. It would take more than a century, until 2011, before this variant would hit the market: the Johnnie Walker Double Black. And Mark is quite curious now if this one differs so much from the classic Black Label.

https://youtu.be/9WaaP-BYQcc

SMWS Canada August 2024 Outturn

Join Adam and Hart as they once again introduce us to another epic set of SMWS releases at The Strath. Check out the SMWS page on The Strath’s webstore, where you can buy bottles and tickets to upcoming events –

http://strathliquor.com/smws

Craigellachie 13YO Bas Armagnac Finish, 46%

THE VIDEO

Craigellachie really blew us all away. With a different. Flavour, as well as some very. Affordable release whiskies. Sadly, most of them have been discontinued, but we still have the ever wonderful Craigellachie 13YO to enjoy. But now we have a cask finish series….and this one has been. Finished in Bas Armagnac casks.

Bas Armagnac also relies on worm tubs for it’s condensation methods, so the two spirits have some similarities, but the fusion of the cask finish has given us some incredible savoury, different styles of flavour that are going to take quite a long time to unpack, god bless having the whole bottle to enjoy.

I picked this up from the ever reliable Royal Mile Whiskies while on holiday in Edinburgh – I was after some other stuff, but when Edinburgh is that busy, you have to get up early to get the new bottles. I will say, though, coming away with this was quite a joy, as for some reason it’s been so long since I’ve had a bottle of Craigellachie in the house.

Octomore 14.2 – The Unbottling

Fresh from the July 2024 Whisky Showcase, Adam tries the Octomore 14.2 from Bruichladdich. Our members scored it 94.34 and put it in the “Smoky & Earthy” flavour profile.

THE VIDEO!

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Blanton’s Gold – The Unbottling

Fresh from the July 2024 Whisky Showcase, Adam tries the illusive Blanton’s Gold (which 8 lucky members got to purchase at the event). Our members scored it 93.07 and put it in the “Fruity & Spicy” flavour profile.

THE VIDEO REVIEW