Highland Park Cask Strength #3, 64.1%

https://youtu.be/yUCC8wzDqvo

A combination of loads of European oak and heavily peated Highland Park distillate, Batch 3 is uniquely different from the previous batches of ‘sweeter’ high strength releases from the distillery. The nose is rather luxurious with maple, pecan and those classic heather honey notes. But once it comes to taste, this whisky is an explosion of bigger, drier, more powerful HP stylings that I haven’t really come across before, and that is quite fun!

Coming in at a huge 64.1% – it is a liquid that makes a statement, HP can still make great whisky, despite what many would say. A shame it’s the only affordable bottle of that quality.

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 469: Four Macallan in a Row

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tastes no less than four Macallan in a row: Macallan 12 Year Old Sherry Oak, Macallan A Night on Earth in Scotland, Macallan Harmony Collection Rich Cacao and Macallan Estate. And guess what… Mark comes to the conclusion that the classic 12 on sherry remains the quintessential Macallan indeed!

https://youtu.be/7kmf0yOC7Kw

ralfy review 950 Extras – Buying gifts for New Year

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 468: Lough Ree Distillery The Bridge Barley Harbour

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tries an undisclosed Bushmills from a nascent distillery. The Irish Lough Ree Distillery has some casks of single malt quietly maturing, but in the meantime they release sourced whiskey from, among others, Cooley, The Great Northern Distillery and Bushmills under the banner ‘The Bridge’. Mark tries the Barley Harbour, which is basically a 6 year old Bushmills.

https://youtu.be/-xM9Itbe_DM

ralfy review 950 – Tamdhu 15yo @46%vol (2022)

The details we await…

The Good Dram Show – Episode 485 ‘Gauntleys of Nottingham’

This weeks episode of the show is a little different to the usual and it’s a mystery……..

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 467: Linkwood 13 Year Old 2008 Liquid Art

Mark Dermul, Belgian whiskyblogger, tries an independent Linkwood. His good friends at Liquid Art have found another single cask that they considered bottle-worthy. And it must be, for this is a Linkwood from 2008 that was allowed to spend it’s hibernation on a bourbon cask. Mark will put this pale Speysider to the test with great pleasure.

https://youtu.be/mlSjo9NMBig

ralfy review 949 Extras – Sober October & the opportunity.

and a viewers reaction…

“Not for me. I drink very little in the summer, and prefer my whisky as the nights draw in and it’s colder. One may shove sober October right up ones ar$e 😉”

ralfy review 949 – Balblair 12yo @46%vol: (2022)