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

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 480: Wolfburn Love Potion

Mark Dermul, Belgian whiskyblogger, tries a relatively new Wolfburn. When he visited Wolfburn in September 2022, he had the misfortune that the Bottle Your Own was not available. The previous cask had been emptied a few days before by the visitors and they had not yet had (made?) the time to prepare a new one. Mark felt quite disappointed. But in the shop, there was a bottle that he hadn’t seen before, so he took it with him. Nice Valentine bottle, it seems, this Love Potion.

https://youtu.be/Y_8JcBILPdw

ralfy review 960 Extras – It’s YOUR taste that really matters.