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…
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…
The Manchester Whisky Club – a group of very sound-minded individuals who share an appreciation for cereal-based spirits – has been meeting since the start of this year. Roughly (come…
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…
Ta-da! What do you think? We hope that, if nothing else, reading Cask Tales has convinced you that we like whisky. With any luck, though, you’ll also have noticed that we…
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