ralfy review 947 Extras. – Online Scotch Whisky Awards 2022

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.

https://youtu.be/F5NAk1uVaLw

ralfy review 947 – Edradour 12yo single cask 100 @57.4%vol:

https://youtu.be/Takd1Tf33hE

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.

Welcome to this week’s episode of the in show, in which I’ll be taking a look at the J.J Corry range of whiskies produced by The Chapelgate Irish Whiskey Company and their collaboration Fierfield.

https://youtu.be/vrwtFq5jnHA

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 461 : Invergordon 49 Year Old 1972 The Roots

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, is intrigued. A new Belgian bottler has emerged: The Roots. But Joren Nuyts, the sympathetic guy behind this new brand, will not limit himself to whisky. We can also expect other spirits, he told Mark. And he immediately put his money where his mouth was, because his first release concerns triplets: a Scottish grain, a very old cognac and a solid rum. What? The first release is not Scottish single malt? Gutsy! Mark immediately put those triplets on the lips, curious as he is. This is his review of the grain, an Invergordon of no less than 49 years old, distilled when Mark was a toddler of 2.

https://youtu.be/gkql1s2bAQY

ralfy review 946 Extras – Some Bothy perspective.

ralfy review 946 – Braeval (Braes Of Glenlivet) 13yo @55%vol: (North Star)

https://youtu.be/dLV7q5JLi34

Four Roses. Not much more needs to be said really, does it?

Their core range is some of the finest bourbon on the face of the planet, and this, their single barrel offering, is quite extraordinary for the money you pay for it.

Four Roses ability to experiment means that their single barrel stocks are some of the most diverse in the world of bourbon, so when something stands out to them, it really does to us as well.

Ashamed that it’s taken so long for me to review this, but here we are!

Welcome to this week’s episode of the show in which I’ll be looking Hannah Whisky Merchants new small batch blended range called Dalgety and comparing two batches of their St Bridget’s Kirk.

https://youtu.be/UkOIAdhAS4o