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Van Wees have now bottled seven different Longmorn-casks in little over a year, and I have tasted two of them. They all are fantastic 'bang for your buck'-whiskies.
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How do we know for sure that cask strength whiskies are actually bottled at cask strength? The term cask strength should be pretty self explanatory, but the same can be said for single cask, and obviously we were wrong about that one.
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The first part of my Benromach tasting. We start with a trio of younger ones, alle from after the takeover by Gordon & MacPhail in 1993.
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This one makes me want to go out and buy a lot more Bladnoch. The profile of this distillery seems to agree with me.
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This is one of those whiskies that for me, really puts this distillery on the map.
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Considering every whisky I've tasted so far, I'd say Bowmore is probably my favourite peated Islay distillery.
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One of these two Arrans is seriously one of the best 'bang for your buck'-whiskies available.
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About time I posted some notes on a whisky from this famed Lowlander, since I was the one comparing it to Port Ellen.
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"What?! Just a couple of days ago this guy whined about how terrible his visit to Edradour was and now he's posting a review of a whisky from that distillery? I'm not sure what to make of this."
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The Dutch Whisky Forum is great community for whisky lovers, as was once again proved by Yapi, one of the more prominent members. He took it upon himself to organize a High End Blind Tasting (HEBT) for several members, using whiskies from his own collection.
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Time for sample three of Yapi's High End Blind Tasting. What could Bart (Yapi's real name) have in store for us now? It turned out to be a highly satisfying trip to Islay.
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A difficult whisky. One that I might like one night, and then not so much on another night. I tasted this on two different occasions, so I'm pretty confident in my final assessment.
