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

ralfy review 992 Extras – The evolution of whisky awareness by customers.

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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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