Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 502: Royal Salute 21 Year Old The Peated Blend

Mark Dermul, Belgian whiskyblogger, tries a blend… but a rather grand one. Royal Salute was created at the time to celebrate the coronation of Elizabeth II. It is a reference to the ceremonial cannon shots fired from the Tower of London. Several versions of the Royal Salute have already come on the market. For this special edition ‘The Peated Blend’ malts were also used that are no longer produced, namely Imperial and Caperdonich.

https://youtu.be/7Lb-8ytaZjM

ralfy review 995 – Kilkerran Heavily Peated (Batch 8) @58.4%vol

https://youtu.be/Xj9F3LXq4rM

Glenturret 12YO

I feel as if this whisky is doing the rounds amongst most whisky reviewers, so here I am!

A distillery with plenty of history, but it’s new approach reaches beyond that, in my eyes. These elegant looking decanters that can house a variety of whisky styles from The Glenturret distillery are a much more open, and welcoming approach to whisky drinkers of all varieties.

Matured solely in ex-sherry casks, this liquid noses much brighter than you would imagine, and it tastes much older than it states on the label.

All in all, this stuff is gold in the current whisky world, I genuinely feel as if Glenturret are setting up securely for their future’s, as well as fans of their new liquid.

The Good Dram Show with Chris Goodrum Episode 526 – Blowing Up The Shed….!

Welcome to this week’s episode of the of the show in which I’ll be singing the eulogy, so to speak about the indie bottler, The Sipping Shed. Filmed in The Study Nottingham.

The Good Dram Show – Episode 526 ‘The Sipping Shed’

Featuring

The Sipping Shed Glenshiel 2011 (10 year old) 59.4%

The Sipping Shed Linkwood 2007 (11 year old) 59%

The Sipping Shed Blair Athol 2009 (13 year old) 56.9%

The Sipping Shed Aultmore 2010 (11 year old) 61.3%

The Sipping Shed Aultmore 2010 (11 year old) 48.5%

ralfy review 994 Extras – Manage your spending better.

ralfy review 994 – Glen Wyvis 2018 vintage @ 46.5%vol:

The Good Dram Show – Episode 525 ‘German Whisky’

Welcome to this week’s episode of the show in which I’ll be taking a look at some bottlings from three German distilleries. St Kilian Distillers, Hercynian Distillery and the Feinbrennerei Simon’s Distillery.

The Good Dram Show with Chris Goodrum Episode 525 – Nur zu Unterhaltungszwecken.!

Filmed in The Study Nottingham

Featuring

Hercynian Distilling Co. ElsBurn ‘The Journey Edition 2022’ 43%

Hercynian Distilling Co. Emperor’s Way ‘The Imperial Abbey’ 48%

Hercynian Distilling Co. ElsBurn Exceptional Collection 2013 (6 year old) Single Sherry Octave V13-67 57.2%

St Kilian Distillers Ambassador’s Choice III ‘Private Cask Mario Rudolf & Gavin Ryan Thomson’ 63.3%

St Kilian Distillers Turf Peak – Master Distillers Selection 60.2%

Simon’s Whisky Is Art Bavarian Single Malt Cask No2 (5 year old) 48% 

Mannochmore 10YO, 46.7%, Cask&BottleCo

https://youtu.be/GAA7X2gK0cU

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

https://bit.ly/CABCpurchase?ref=YmVwkrjf-HguzE

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!

ralfy review 993 Extras – When whi**y intensity gets to your head.

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