When trying a new whisky, I take a glass (either a Glencairn or Copita nosing glass) and pour in a small measure of golden liquid. Picking up the glass, I…
Happy World Whisky Day! Don’t pretend that you didn’t know. Alright, well, if you really didn’t know, here we are again to save your alcoholic bacon (now there’s a pair of…
For those who don’t know, ‘the wonderful team at Cask Tales’ (to quote Whyte & Mackay) are quite geographically distinct from each other – at least until tomorrow, anyway. Whilst both Josh and…
‘This is the quintessential Speyside whisky’, I was told as I bought it. ‘You can’t go wrong with it.’ So with some anticipation, I parted with £25 of the government’s…
This is the first in a series of relatively short posts wherein we hope to draw attention to our links page, and other whisky blogs that we particularly enjoy. First…
If you read Cask Tales you’ll know – or rather, we hope you’ll know – that we’re fans of good design. What, the white space, visual emphasis and Hoefler Text didn’t…
Yes, we’re sure you were expecting us to write about some Irish whiskey, what with today’s date. But we’re not quite that tediously predictable. Yet. Instead, a story straight from…
Monkey Shoulder is a tricky character to pin down. Behind the self-consciously hip branding and promotional material, what we have here is a blended malt (which, as you’ll remember, is…
The Balvenie Signature was crafted to celebrate the forty-fifth year in the industry of their master blender, David Stewart. The bottle alone is pleasingly monumental, with a sturdy form that…
There are two points worth noting about Tamnavulin (or ‘mill on the hill’ if you go by its Gaelic origins): first, there’s no accepted ‘standard’ version of it. I’ve put…
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