www.simpsonsmalt.co.uk

ralfy review 1106 Extras – The history of ‘Golden Promise’ barley.

ralfy review 1106 – Ardnamurchan Heritage (golden promise) @ 58.2%vol:

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 583: Double Barrel Speyside & Lowland Douglas Laing

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tries a blended malt of two barrels. Double Barrel has been around since 2008 and was quite an innovative and daring release from Douglas Laing at the time. As the name suggests, this is a blended malt from two different barrels, each a combination of various distilleries from different regions. In the past, they used to mention the distilleries – e.g. Ardbeg/Aultmore or Macallan/Laphroaig – but in recent years they have started working with regions instead. Nowadays, there is a Speyside & Lowland, Islay & Highland edition. Mark is tasting the Speyside & Lowland, but he has no idea which malts were used. All he found out is that one barrel contained an 8-year-old malt, the other a 10-year-old malt.

https://youtu.be/IoEaz5c0DsQ

North British – Edinburgh Single Grain Whisky with Gerry Friel

THE VIDEO

Adam welcomes a special guest to discuss single grain whisky and why he picked a cask of North British for The Strath in Victoria BC.

The Good Dram Show – Episode 614 ‘Blackadder’

The Good Dram Show with Chris Goodrum. Episode 614 – One Word… Legendary..! Filmed in The Study Nottingham.

Featuring

Blackadder Raw Cask Chimera Blended Malt 61%
Blackadder Raw Cask Legendary Medium Toasted Fine Grain French Oak 59.2%
Blackadder Raw Cask Statement No12 Inchgower 1995 (20 year old) 57.6%
Blackadder Raw Cask Glentauchers 2012 (12 year old) 65.6%
Blackadder Raw Cask Smoking Islay Blended Malt 11 year old 59.5%
Blackadder Raw Cask Peat Reek Blended Islay 2012 (10 year old) 58.6%

https://blackadder.com

ralfy review 1105 Extras – Comparing & Contrasting two peat-monsters.

ralfy review 1105 – Ledaig 10yo Hebridean Moon @58.8%vol:

Ghost Scotch – Speyside Distillery

THE VIDEO

Adam introduces three cask strength editions from the Speyside distillery, a now closed single malt producer that is super hard to find. Try now instore at The Strath in Victoria for free, and save % on your bottles as part of the Strath’s Whisky Sale!

We Sell Sanctuary (And It’s Made By Phillips!)

THE VIDEO!

Adam discovers the brand new relaunch of Sanctuary single malt by Fermentorium at Phillips here in Victoria BC. Want to try it? Come and celebrate the launch with us at a very special tasting event and launch party on Dec 7th! Links below.

Fermentorium – The Cask Discovery Tasting

Sunday December 7th at 2pm

Sanctuary Whisky Launch Party

Sunday December 7th at 4pm

Join Phillips Fermentorium and the Deb Rhymer band as they launch their brand new re-imagined Sanctuary whisky at the Sunday Blues Service.

Buy your bottle now 

THE VIDEO

Macallan 25YO, 43%, 2023

I finally got the chance to taste one of the most ‘if I could, I would’ bottles in the world. Does it live up to its hype, or is it just a rich person’s everyday liquid?

There’s no doubt that Macallan has spent the time and money on making a great product. From the facilitating and building of a brand new distillery, one of the biggest in the world of single malt, to securing cooperages in both The US and Spain for maximum control over their barrel sourcing processes. So we’ve got a distillery making great spirit and sourcing some of the best wood from America and Europe. A big question, though, why is it all so expensive?

Even with all of this process and spending, is it that different to how many other distilleries spend countless time and money on sourcing casks? Yes, 90%+ of Macallan’s stock is all about sherry seasoning, but even so, does this warrant a double cost to the consumer for this process? So many questions.

Jumping into the whisky, Macallan 25 Year Old, matured in ex-sherry and ex-sherry seasoned casks, mostly European oak with perhaps a smattering of American oak running around in there. Bottled at 43%, natural colour, some chill filtration for consistency, as you would expect at £2,000 a bottle.

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