ralfy review 963 – Redbreast 12yo @ 56.3%vol: (OSWA winner 2022)

Whisky Wednesday Reviews Glen Garioch 12YO, 48%

https://youtu.be/nxMbNxRMdGI

Why doesn’t Glen Garioch get talked about? Within the indie bottling world, Glen Garioch is an easily accessible and relatively affordable whisky, albeit from infinitely refilled bourbon casks. But why aren’t the distillery offerings talked about? Not even by the distilleries owners? It seems as if Glen Garioch, despite the investment, has been left to one side while Auchentoshan gets more attention. Just doesn’t seem right to me.

This is their 12YO offering. Natural colour, unfiltered and bottled at 48%, what’s to dislike on the forefront of this? A healthy combination of sherry and bourbon casks is fueling this wonderfully forward and fruity profile. It’s honestly so tasty that it’s rather criminal that we don’t even talk about it that much.

The Good Dram Show – Episode 495 ‘Brave New Spirits’

Welcome to this weeks episode of the show in which I’ll be taking a look at some of the releases in the new Brave New Spirits range called Cask Noir. The Good Dram Show with Chris Goodrum Episode 495 – Cask Noir et les trucs bizarrement funky!

Filmed in The Study Nottingham

Tasting Notes https://chriswhiskyman.wordpress.com Featuring Cask Noir Dailuaine 11 year old ‘The Rise of the Badger Clan’ 50.9% Cask Noir Craigellachie 14 year old ‘Telfords Travels to Gascony’ 52.3% Cask Noir Benrinnes 13 year old ‘Ruthie The Wanderer … In Bordeaux’ 57.2% Cask Noir Old Rhosdhu 28 year old ‘Bonnie Banks & The Call of the Past’ 48.6% Cask Noir Ardmore 9 year old ‘When The Eagles Watch’ 58.5% Cask Noir Inchfad (Loch Lomond) 17 year old ‘Secrets of Bonnie Banks’ 48.1% https://www.bravenewspirits.com/

ralfy review 962 Extras – Distillery Disclosures.

ralfy review 962 – Orchard House @46%vol: (OSWA winner 2022)

Phil will return next week……….

ralfy review 961 Extras – Your own tasting notes.

ralfy review 961 – Nikka From The Barrel @51.4%vol (OSWA winner 2022)

https://youtu.be/5GMj6Lcp_xs

Giants being slayed in the whisky industry seems to be a 50/50 split between outrageous pricing from multinational conglomerates, or underselling a product for years in a supermarket and then watching your cask quality decline into the ninthe circle of hell. Or maybe it’s both at the same time?

Ardbeg 10YO. Glenlivet 12YO. Highland Park 12YO. Glenfiddich 15YO. Eagle Rare. Sazerac Rye, and our subject of the day, Lagavulin 16YO.

I’m not one to air negative reviews, well, maybe one a year, at most. But with two seperate rounds of price increases from Diageo, woeful stock availability for almost a year and mass undercut selling from huge retailers for years, is it any wonder that Lagavulin 16YO has been the victim of its own success?

What was once lauded as the finest of product from Islay is now a thin, veiled shadow of itself. Does it still taste good? Yeah, it does. But that becomes bye-the-bye when you factor in everything else that is peated and availabile in the world of whisky.

Welcome to this week’s episode of the show. As nothing new is happening at the moment I have taken advantage of that to dig out a selection of distillery bottled samples to review.

https://youtu.be/nZjX7B0TwYM