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Bottled by Whiskybase to celebrate the 130.000th entry in their database, this Secret Orkney was distilled at Highland Park, obviously.
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A very bourbon-esque Glen Keith 1992 from Archives. The heavy cask influence overshadows some of the fruitiness that other expressions from this period display.
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You virtually never encounter an official release from Glentauchers distillery, but it shows up every once in a while as an independent bottling. Like this Glentauchers 1996 20 Years Old from Archives.
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Whiskybase just released not one, but two of these 1970s Speyside-gems at the same time. Oh, and as a bonus also a lovely sherried Speyside Region 1998. Is it Christmas already?
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Glendronach really is the new Macallan. If you want sherry-matured whiskies, Glendronach is the way to go. This 1995 PX-matured single cask for Whiskybase is another example of that.
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A very good Littlemill from a couple of years ago, bottled by Whiskybase to celebrate the 40.000th bottle in their database.
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This Ben Nevis was bottled to celebrate 60.000 bottles in the database of Whiskybase.
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Welcome to Part II of of my report on an epic sailing trip to the Scottish west coast isles.
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At the start of the summer of 2014, I went on an epic saling trip. We visited Lagavulin, Ardbeg, Bruichladdich, Springbank, Arran and more. It was awesome!
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I've been looking forward to this trip for over six months, and tomorrow my great adventure will finally start. A sailing trip on the impressive tall ship Thallasa to the West Coast Isles of Scotland. On board will be about 25 like-minded whisky enthusiasts. It is going to be great!
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Some good news: independent Dutch filmmaker Gwen Jansen has collected enough funds to finish her documentary on whisky in The Netherlands. In a period of six months she managed to raise 70.000 euros.
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People don't just buy domain names like whisky.com, especially if those people are the owners of the biggest whisky retailer in Germany. What are their plans? Are we looking at the next great whisky community?
