So far we’ve had reviews from the Old Pulteney 21, the Ardbeg Uigeadail, and Ballantine’s 17. The Scottish theme here comes to an end in our mini ‘best of’ series…
It’s an incredible feeling when the Old Pulteney 21 year old is poured into your glass. It’s a legendary whisky, the best in the world in 2012, actually. To those…
I reviewed Ardbeg’s 10 year old last summer – possibly the moment where boy turned to man. My god, what a whisky. And we’d heard that the Ardbeg Uigeadail (pronounced…
Of the six contenders for ‘World Whisky of the Year’ only Ballantine’s is a blended Scotch whisky. We’ve already sampled their ‘Finest’ blend which, er, we thought was something of…
Several weeks ago, in the midst of degree work, I was fortunate (and desperate) enough to go to The Birmingham Whisky Club’s Ode to Jim Murray event, hosted by the…
I tried a measure of Glenmorangie’s Nectar D’Òr at the Manchester Whisky Festival last year. By that point, I was the wrong (or perhaps the right) side of about ten…
Ballantine’s Finest was Jim Murray’s finest blended Scotch whisky with no age statement in 2012; not for the first time, I’m afraid I just don’t feel the same way about…
Returning to a recent theme – independent whiskies bottled for retailers – we have here Marks & Spencer’s ‘Islay Single Malt Whisky Aged 12 Years’. (Yes, alright, I got a…
Clinging to the north east of the Republic of Ireland, Cooley has only been functioning as a whiskey distillery since the late 1980s. Its conversion to whiskey production, challenged the…
For our first foray into Canada, we’re reviewing its classic eponymous blend, Canadian Club. For years the ubiquitous ‘Club Whisky’ of North American gentlemen’s establishments, it today graces not only…
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