Mannochmore 10YO, 46.7%, Cask&BottleCo

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Cask & Bottle Co are a brand new bottler on the independent scene. Based in London, and wanting to showcase some classic examples of Scottish whisky, we have their first ever bottling here to sample, a Mannochmore 10YO at 46.7% ABV, from a refil hogshead, producing 391 bottles of liquid

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If you follow the link above and use this code, you can gain 10% off the purchase.

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Mannochmore is the definition of a distillery lost in the mist of Speyside. Only opening its doors in 1971, it was quickly mothballed in 1985, before reopening again in 1989, on the cusp of the modern worlds first whisky boom! Producing 6,000,000 litres of whisky per year, most of it ends up in Johnnie Walker, but a fair chunk is sold onto indie bottlers for this very purpose.

This the definition of an absolutely textbook summer time whisky…even though we may have gone passed summer by this point, as it’s a single cask, it’s worth putting in the bunker. Cheers!

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Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 501: Auchentoshan 24 Year Old 1998 Thompson Brothers

Mark Dermul, Belgian whiskyblogger, tries another Auchentoshan. Bottlings by the Thompson Brothers, who are also the proprietors of the Dornoch Distillery, sell out in the blink of an eye. So Mark felt very lucky to be able to add a few of these bottles from Auchentoshan to his collection. It’s a vatting of two refill barrels of his favourite triple distilled tipple, that yielded 321 bottles at cask strength. Let’s find out if this Toshan 1998 is any good, shall we?

https://youtu.be/RhDk96qX6IQ

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Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 500: Auchentoshan’s 200th Anniversary Festival & more…

Mark Dermul, Belgian whiskyblogger, is known as the Toshan Man, huge fan of the Lowland triple distilled malt Auchentoshan, founded in 1823. On 3 September 2023 Auchentoshan celebrated its 200^th anniversary with a festival on the distillery grounds with cocktails, foodtrucks, local musicians, single malt (doh!) and – the icing on the cake – the release of a special 25 Year Old for the occasion. It goes without saying that Mark was there… this is his report. And it’s no coincidence that this is Rambling 500! Oh, right, lest we forget… Mark also visited the Glenkinchie Distillery, the Clydeside Distillery, the Port of Leith Distillery and the Johnnie Walker Experience.

https://youtu.be/ZpDa0KZwq4Y

Lagg Corriecravie, 55% ABV

https://youtu.be/g7kZevk_ApM

My second experience of Lagg, and I have to say that it is yet to let me down in any way at all. The first release was expensive, but due to the secondary market, I don’t blame them. A sherry finished whisky (the colour is remarkable!). We have a peat level of 50ppm, 55% ABV, and what makes this all even more impressive is that it can only be 4YO, at most.

This is better, in many ways, than most new Ardbeg releases. Most new, affordable Bowmore releases, most new Highland Park releases…and it’s just over £60 a bottle. Stop reading this and go and buy one. Watch the review first, though, of course.

The Good Dram Show – Episode 524 ‘Lady of the Glen’

Welcome to this week’s episode of the show in which I’ll be taking a look at some of the new releases from Hannah Whisky Merchants in their Lady of the Glen range.

https://youtu.be/W3D7itSiHYA

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Drinking Out Loud

Scapegrace Revenant (aka Smoking A Bougie Twizzler) – The Unbottling

THE VIDEO

Check out Adam’s unbottling of July 2023’s free drop-in-dram, nicknamed “Smoking A Bougie Twizzler”. This month we’re looking at whiskies with some weird wood influence.

Scapegrace – Revenant III Single Malt

THE DRAM ASSOCIATION

STRATH LIQUOR

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