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Maybe the most meta single malt you'll ever see, this Tormore 1990 31 Years from Whiskysponge is a celebration of fake whisky from Italy.
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Distillery Visits
Check out some of my travels over the years...
Over a quarter million people visit Jack Daniel's every year. In 2015, I was one of the 250.000 :)
I've always said that if you do just one tour in Speyside, it should be at Balvenie. After visiting Ballindalloch, I may have to rethink that position.
A rare opportunity to see Inchgower from the inside, and to learn about their efforts to give the new make as much of a nutty character as possible.
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Maybe the most meta single malt you'll ever see, this Tormore 1990 31 Years from Whiskysponge is a celebration of fake whisky from Italy.
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Tasting the three new Octomore 12 alongside one another is a great exercise in cask influence. Another delicious chapter to the Octomore book.
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For ages now, GlenDronach has been bottling whisky that's actually (much) older than the label indicates.
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Heavily influenced by the cask, yet this Starward 2016 Single Barrel for The Netherlands never becomes too wine-y and still retains some of that berry fruitiness that I've come to associate them with.
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A hugely impressive rye whisky from Finnish distillers Kyrö, bottled in the Nordic Casks series of Berry Bros & Rudd. This should convert any rye whisky sceptic.
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Hot on the heels of A Night On Earth In Scotland, The Macallan releases the Harmony Collection Rich Cacao. If anybody ever opens a bottle, I'd love ty buy a sample of them.
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I hope you enjoy reading my interview with Glen Scotia distillery manager Iain McAlister as much as I enjoyed talking to him.
