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Mortlach 2013 Spirit of Speyside Festival
Mortlach 2013 Spirit of Speyside Festival (48%, OB, 2013) Category: Speyside single malt scotch whisky Origin: Mortlach Distillery Bottling: Diageo ABV: 48% Cost: £100 What they say: An exclusive Limited Edition bottling of Mortlach, bottled to celebrate the 2013 Spirit… Continue reading
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Speyburn 25 Year Old Solera Cask
Speyburn 25 Year Old Solera Cask (46%, OB, 2015) Category: Speyside single malt scotch whisky Origin: Speyburn Distillery Bottling: Official, Inver House ABV: 46% Cost: £84.14 What they say: 25 Year Old Solera Single Malt Scotch Whisky Spicy, sweet, long… Continue reading
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Benromach 38 Years Old 1976 single cask
Benromach-Glenlivet 38 Years Old 1976 Single Cask (52.9%, WM Cadenhead, Bourbon HH, 222 Bottles, 2015) Category: Speyside single malt scotch whisky Origin: Benromach Distillery Bottling: Cadenhead’s ABV: 52.9% Cost: £205 What they say: Distilled at Benromach Distillery in 1976 and… Continue reading
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Caperdonich 18 Year Old 1995 Berrys’
Caperdonich 18 Year Old 1995 BBR (46%, Berry Bros & Rudd, Cask #95076, 2014) Category: Speyside single malt scotch whisky Origin: Caperdonich Distillery Bottling: Berry Bros & Rudd Cask 95076 ABV: 46% Cost: £87.61 What they say: A Berry Brothers… Continue reading
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Whiskymetrics: Scoring whisky – the results
Whiskymetrics: Scoring whisky – the results Writing an article on how I score whisky would be as useful as an article about how I ride a bike – it may help you but more likely it may not. So rather… Continue reading
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anCnoc 2001 vintage
anCnoc 2001 vintage (40%, OB, 2015) Category: Speyside single malt scotch whisky Origin: Knockdhu Distillery Bottling: Inver House ABV: 46% Cost: £54.95 What they say: Distilled 2001 anCnoc Vintage 2001 has matured in Spanish and American oak casks and has… Continue reading
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anCnoc 1999 vintage
anCnoc 1999 vintage (46%, OB, 2013) Category: Speyside single malt scotch whisky Origin: Knockdhu Distillery Bottling: Inver House ABV: 46% Cost: £51.43 What they say: Distilled 1999 anCnoc 1999 has been bottled in its most natural form – neither chill… Continue reading
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Anée Calvados Hors d’Age
Very enjoyable, quite light and easy to drink but with an interesting depth which suggests some real age in here. The tannic French oak and acidity is kept to a minimum and cinnamon spiced honeyed apples are the dominant flavor… Continue reading
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SMWS 127.44 Cantina Mexicana
Port Charlotte 12 Years Old 2003 127.44 Cantina Mexicana ~ 56.9% (SMWS) Category: Islay single malt scotch whisky Origin: Bruichladdich Distillery Bottling: The Scotch Malt Whisky Society Cask 127.44 ABV: 56.9% Cost: £120 What they say: Not only does it… Continue reading
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WhiskyMetrics: Top whisky blogs – May 2016
Following our last WhiskyMetrics release WhiskyMetrics: Whisky Blog League Table December 2015 and numerous subsequent comments, correspondence and conversations we present here an updated Whisky Blog league table reflecting traffic estimates as of May 2016 (i.e. using alexa rankings). Unfortunately for the… Continue reading
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