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…
Thank you to everyone who entered our birthday competition via the Cask Tales Facebook page. We’re sorry that you can’t all come round so that we can buy you each a dram!…
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…
Exciting news from Compass Box, who have released the second whisky in their Great King Street range – the New York Blend. A limited-edition release to coincide with the 2012 New…
Take a look at it on the shelf, and it’s clear that the marketing department at Douglas Laing has been granted a free rein with Big Peat. You can’t fault…
Bowmore is a distillery that can lay some claim to antiquity. Its marketing claims that the distillery dates back to 1779, making it one of the oldest distilleries around. As…
In a little over three hours’ time, Usain Bolt will seek to defend his Olympic 100m title. It’s only fitting that, in true Caribbean style, we review some rum-finished whisky…
As a follow-up to last week’s piece on Bruichladdich, it’s worth noting that it was announced this morning that the sale to Rémy Cointreau has been agreed, and will be…
An old story by now, but one that deserves the attention it’s getting. A little over a week ago, Mark Reynier, the managing director of Bruichladdich, tweeted the news that…
I had been looking forward to trying Laphroaig’s Quarter Cask for some time. To say it did not disappoint would be as unjust a diminution as saying that Charles Dickens…
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