Welcome to this week’s American episode of the show in which I’ll be taking a look at two new releases from Jack Daniels and some other assorted Bourbon’s.
Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 466: Trip to Scotland Part 4 of 4
In September Mark took Dearly Beloved and his good friend Manny on a trip across the Scottish Highlands. In this final part of a four part series they visit the cozy Balblair distillery before standing in awe in front of the huge Glen Ord Maltings. Next door is the renovated Singleton distillery with an amazing visitor center. Lastly they enjoy a wee dram on their final night at Fort George near Inverness. Enjoy!
Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 465: Trip to Scotland Part 3 of 4
In September Mark took Dearly Beloved and his good friend Manny on a trip across the Scottish Highlands. In this third part of a four part series they enjoy the beauty of Orkney, are hosted to a fantastic private tour of the Highland Park distillery, return to the mainland to visit Wolfburn in Thurso and then trek across the mighty Highlands. Enjoy!
Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 464: Trip to Scotland Part 2 of 4
In September Mark took Dearly Beloved and his good friend Manny on a trip across the Scottish Highlands. In this second part of a four part series they visit Clynelish and the recently re-opened Brora before driving all the way up to Wick for a quick stop at Old Pulteney. The next day they are happily surprised to find the brand new 8 Doors Distillery in John O’Groats before taking the ferry to Orkney to visit Scapa. Enjoy!
Haven’t got my hands in an innaugral release for a while!
Lagg Distillery is part two in the realm of Arran. A distillery designed for heavily peated spirit, sourcing said peat from north eastern Scotland, it allows for a still very smoky but lighter, lemony, honey’d style of west coast peated whisky. Peated to 50PPM, 50% ABV, natural colour and non-chill filtered, this is an exemplary style of young Scottish whisky that Limited to 10,000 bottle in the first release, this has become much more difficult to get ahold of, but for those of you that have opened it, what a treat it is!
Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 463: Trip to Scotland Part 1 of 4
In September Mark took Dearly Beloved and his good friend Manny on a trip across the Scottish Highlands. They visited no less than 14 distilleries and enjoyed some sightseeing as well. After all, Scotland is the most beautiful country in the world. In this first part of a four part series they visit Teaninich, Dalmore, Invergordon, Glenmorangie and Dornoch. Enjoy!
Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 462 : Balblair 16 Year Old 2006 Hand Bottled at the Distillery
Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tries a distillery exclusive. His buddy Marcel from the Netherlands visited the Balblair distillery some time ago and asked Mark if he could do him a favor with an exclusive hand-bottled malt. Of course Mark immediately agreed and let him bring such a bottle. And then to think that in September 2022 Mark will visit Balblair himself… Perhaps by that time it will be a different cask and he can return the favor. The label does not mention a cask type, but judging by the color, this may have been a bourbon barrel.
ralfy review 947 – Edradour 12yo single cask 100 @57.4%vol:
Big lover of Benromach and all the things they do. But I do have a bee in my bonnet about everyone’s obsession with ‘quality’ whiskies being atleast 46% ABV and non-chill filtered. It’s as if all whisky MUST have these boxes ticked in order to be judged and reviewed upon by the whisky overlords of YouTube and beyond. But not all whiskies that tick those boxes are objectively good, and that’s a fact.
This is an excellent whisky, as is the whole Benromach range. Being owned by Gordon and Macphail, it’s doubtful that the family begind G&M are sat in a boardroom, plotting and scheming about how annoyed people will be that there standard range isn’t 46% ABV.
On taste alone, Benromach 15YO is an outstanding product, from an excellent distillery and it provides something different from your typical and sometimes, very boring, Speysode whisky portfolio.
Benromach 15. It isn’t 46%…but is fucking wonderful.
