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Kilkerran 8 Years Old Open Day 2016
Great whisky but towards the end becomes a little spirit and youthfull outliving its sherry cask maturation – thankfully like all great whisky this is tamed with a drop of water which just improves things all-round. 87/100 Continue reading
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SMWS 50.63 Boozy buccaneers!
Bladnoch 24 Years Old 1990 50.63 Boozy buccaneers! ~ 58.3% (SMWS) Category: Lowland single malt scotch whisky Origin: Bladnoch Distillery Bottling: Scotch Malt Whisky Society; cask 50.63 ABV: 58.3% Cost: £112.18 What they say: Colour: Stolen gold Flavour: Deep, rich… 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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Braes Of Glenlivet 16 Years Old 1997 Small Batch
Wow, simply delicious, so full of fresh fruit flavours, clean and crisp, juiced and sweetened plays out with hints of cereal barley and oak as foils to that crisp fruitiness. 87/100 Continue reading
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SMWS 73.69 Dark side eclipsed by sweet joys
Good ex-sherry influence, not too strong but masks most of the spirit character. That Aultmore grassy/apple/malt flavour is missing. With a little water this whisky falls apart, it becomes a little more vanilla and creamier but with an over-stretched elastic… Continue reading
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Springbank Open Day 2015
Rich and smooth but very very citrus zesty, an odd fruit tinge – wine cask? (tasted blind) 87/100 Continue reading
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Ardbeg Supernova Committee Edition
Considering the peating level this is actually quite easy-going,redolent of vanilla milkshake in the beginning then explodes into all sorts of flavours as the peat and phenolics hit the palate, long, sweet zesty peat and shellfish stand out making this… Continue reading
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Glenburgie 17 Years Old 1995 Vintage Collection
An oak-aged and refined fruit cocktail of a dram. Pretty impressive stuff from a distillery more used to producing blend-fodder. 87/100 Continue reading
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SMWS 53.212 Peat smoke and Para Handy puffers
Caol Ila 22 Years Old 1992 53.212 Peat smoke and Para Handy puffers (56.4%, SMWS, Refill Bourbon HH, 291 Bottles, 2014) Category: Islay single malt scotch whisky Origin: Caol Ila distillery Bottling: Scotch Malt Whisky Society Cask 53.212 Peat smoke… Continue reading
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Bruichladdich 2003 Micro-Provenance Cask 543
Bruichladdich Micro-Provenance Cask 543 (60.1%, OB, Port HH, 250 Bottles, 2015) Category: Islay single malt scotch whisky Origin: Bruichladdich Distillery Bottling: Rémy Cointreau for #LaddieMP3 ABV: 60.1% Cost: £90 for 3x 20cl Score: 87/100 What they say: Porto cask matured 12… Continue reading
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