The Good Dram Show – Episode 523 ‘Springbank’

Welcome to the annual Springbank episode of the show. This week I’ll be taking a look at a number of Independent bottlings aged 21 years plus! The Good Dram Show with Chris Goodrum Episode 523 – Simply…..The Annual Springbank Episode!

Featuring Lockett Brothers Reserve Springbank 1993 (21 year old) 49.4%

Lombard Jewels of Scotland Springbank 1991 (21 year old) 49.7%

Whisky Sponge Springbank 1995 (26 year old) ‘Edition 60A’ 51.1%

Whisky Sponge Springbank 1994 (27 year old) ‘Edition 60B’ 47%

SCOMA Springbank 1991 (27 year old) 50.6%

That Boutique-y Whisky Company Springbank Batch 5 25 year old 53.3% 

https://youtu.be/K8gQXgkVBs8

Ardnamurchan Sherry Cask Release!

A combination of first fill oloroso and Pedro Ximinez casks, with a mix of fifty percent peated malt and fifty percent unpeated malted barley.  Ardnamurchan are the distillery of the future for me. A transparent presentation, but with the liquid being genuinely good, bits of peat, bits of lemony sweetness. Truly fantastic. You’d be hard pressed to tell me this whisky was only six years old at most. A truly wonderful bit of west coast flavour.

Drinking Out Loud

Oban Distillers Edition (aka The Silly Wizard) – The Unbottling

THE VIDEO

Check out Adam’s unbottling of July 2023’s premium drop-in-dram, nicknamed “The Silly Wizard”.This month we’re looking at whiskies with some weird wood influence.

Oban – Distiller’s Edition 2022

THE DRAM ASSOCIATION

STRATH LIQUOR

ralfy review 991 Extras – Good labels, bad labels.

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 499: Macduff 14 Year Old 2008 Liquid Art

Mark Dermul, Belgian whiskyblogger, tries a Macduff single malt. Macduff is a little known distillery as most of their production goes into blend such as William Lawson’s. And they market their own single malt as The Deveron, named after a nearby stream. But Mark has the good fortune of trying a 14 year old from 2008 bottle at cask strength by the Belgian bottler Liquid Art.

https://youtu.be/gpDB3jE9Aw8

ralfy review 991 – Arran Quarter cask @ 56.2%vol:

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 498: Unnamed Orkney 16 Year Old 2006 The Ultimate

Mark Dermul, Belgian whiskyblogger, tastes an undisclosed malt from Orkney. When the label says ‘Unnamed Orkney’, we all know what’s inside the bottle and it isn’t Scapa. In this case it’s a malt from 2006 matured for 16 years on a sherry cask and then bottled by the Dutch company van Wees in their famous The Ultimate series. Bit of a quirky nose, but lovely on the palate.

https://youtu.be/nuRzFy-iEZ4

Auction Wins #2

https://youtu.be/aYtXSgB8Czc

Welcome to another auctions haul here at Whisky Wednesday!

There were meant to be three bottles…but I was an idiot and dropped one. If you want to see what that should’ve looked like then please head over to our Instagram – @thisiswhiskywednesday.

Bottles one is a 1961 distilled, bottled 1967 bottling of Canadian Club. Picked up for an absolute bargain of £25 due to the possible issues faced with a damage seal and a torn label. Nonetheless, it tastes very good, almost like the modern bottling, but it looks incredible.

Bottle two is a classic and somewhat historical bottling of Clynelish 12YO, at 40% ABV, bottled fot Ainslie and Heilbron, bottled by Gordon & Macphail. A beautifully fruity, slightly sour example of vintage Clynelish from about four decades ago. Also attained for a bargain price of £25 a bottle, albeit a smaller one.

Looking forward to getting more cool stuff from auction sites in the future, but do let me know if there’s anything I should be looking out for. Cheers!

Welcome to this week’s episode of the show in which I’ll be taking a look at the White Peak Distillery which is just up the road in Derbyshire.

https://youtu.be/gMFPhL1dcuE

ralfy review 990 Extras – The tale of two Bourbons.