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…
For all those who ‘fight oral hygiene’ (is that common?), here’s the solution, from a 1961 edition of House and Garden magazine. Jigger whiskey toothpaste. It’s apparently flavoured with ‘the real…
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…
Charles Maclean’s Scotch Whisky: A Liquid History has much to commend it (and a full review will follow anon), but I couldn’t resist sharing this little snippet about polite society in Edinburgh…
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…
There is, some believe, a problem with the Scotch whisky industry in the 21st century. Ironically, it’s a byproduct of the industry’s success. ‘The industry’s in good health? What’s wrong…
By odd coincidence, the whisky that Raph got me for Christmas – Ardmore’s Traditional Cask – is made pretty close to the whisky that I bought him, Glendronach 12. They…
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