https://youtu.be/ICQkR5_rOzA

Welcome to a 27YO single cask Macallan. Don’t often get to say that in general, let alone with a little sample sent in the post. This bottle is being sold via Mark Littler LTD and has been bottled by a client of his. Producing only 90 bottles that will be available via the link below, you can also view the huge history and links that this bottle has to huge chunks of Macallan’s history, outside of being distilled there.

I’ve had the privilege of trying this whisky prior to this video, it was a wonderful privilege to be able to try it again.

Macallan 27YO Mark Littler LTD

ralfy review 974 Extras – American Single Malt Whisky arrives !

Welcome to this week’s episode of the show in which I’ll be looking at three distillery bottlings and three Independent bottlings of Laphroaig.

https://youtu.be/RSz7rYXc9m0

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 487: Kavalan Solist Sherry Cask

Mark Dermul, Belgian whiskyblogger, tries a belter from Taiwain. Kavalan has won numerous awards with their Solist single cask releases. Whether it’s an ex-bourbon cask, sherry cask, vinho barrique or port cask, they all perform very well indeed. Mark got hold of one such release from 2021, bottled at a whopping 58.6% ABV, drawn from a sherry cask.

https://youtu.be/VM6okizMbWQ

ralfy review 974 – Thompson Bros 6yo SBW @46%vol:

ralfy review 973 Extras – Using our brain to smell & taste.

https://youtu.be/H5NMWsPbPzw

Laphroaig. 10. Cask. Strength. These words are enough to strike fear or love into the hearts of whisky drinkers. As such a divisive style of whisky, even peaty whisky fans can become divided over Laphroaig. However, when it’s presented in this manner, it is unmistakably, unequivocally, one of the best standard line bottles of whisky on the market.

I’m biased. I love Laphroaig. It’s probably my favourite Islay distillery. Yet to ever experience a version of this cask strength release that wasn’t draped in complexity and classic Laphroaig peatiness.

Some will undoubtedly disagree with how much I love this, but there aren’t many other cask strength Islay whiskies that are as affordable (contextually) as this…perhaps Ardbeg Uigeadail But even then, that can be so varied when it comes to the batches.

Either way, I hope you enjoy the review!

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 486: D.R.K.N.S.S. Batch 2 Asta Morris

Mark Dermul, Belgian whiskyblogger, tries something sinister… Last year he tasted the first batch of D.R.K.N.S.S. – or Darkness for short – from Asta Morris. That was a sherry-aged Lowlander, 465 bottles strong. However, this second batch, which has just been released, is a Highland malt. Obviously also matured on a sherry cask and the release this time is no less than 601 bottles strong.

https://youtu.be/yLLtnAwJg1A

ralfy review 973 – Luvians Glenlivet 2019 @46%vol:

The Good Dram Show – Episode 504 ‘Hazelburn’

Welcome to this week’s episode of the show. It has been over a year since I last did an episode of the show on the Springbank’s triple distilled spirit called Hazelburn, so here’s a new one! The Good Dram Show with Chris Goodrum Episode 504 – The Infinite Expectation of Possibilities!

Featuring

Hazelburn 2001 (17 year old) – Cage Bottling 47%

Hazelburn 21 year old (2022 Release) 46%

Hazelburn 2007 (10 year old) Single Cask 55.4%

Hazelburn 1997 (8 year old) Private Port Cask Malt House Islay Tokyo 56.2%

Cadenheads Authentic Collection Hazelburn 2007 (12 year old) 51.9%

Cadenheads ‘Wood Range – Sherry Cask’ Hazelburn 16 year old 58%

HAZELBURN WHISKY

CADENHEADS

Filmed in The Study Nottingham

Tasting Notes