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The Texture of Evening: McGibbons Provenance 1991 Bladnoch 13 Year Old
Is there any point in reviewing a whisky bottled and shipped in 2004 and only recently found all dusty and alone in a liquor store 10 years later? I often wonder about this kind of thing when I see...
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Making Solace of Cioran: Longrow 14 Year Old Cask Strength Campbeltown Single...
For some ungodly reason, I will often, after pouring myself a dram of some elixir from the Springbank distillery, take a volume of the writings of that sad, incisive pessimist, E. M. Cioran, down from...
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The Pleasures of Promise: Kilchoman’s 2007 Vintage Single Malt Scotch Whisky
I first tried this at a tasting some time around the beginning of this year and I liked it – along with the Loch Gorm and Machir Bay expressions – enough to add them to my ever-growing “must buy this...
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The Heart’s Cockles’ Heat: The Exlusive Malts’ 2000 Craigellachie 12 Year Old...
This distillery (with emphasis on the “ell” syllable) is completely new to me. I have learned that Craigellachie Distillery was built to take advantage of new railroads in 1891 on what is known as The...
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The Serenity of Wow: The Classic Cask 1975 Dallas Dhu 28 Year Old Single Cask...
This is good whisky, with a very long ooooooo between the g and the d. This whisky does so much right, it’s difficult to gauge – you want to put your damn pen down so you can freely and patiently drink...
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Whisky Para Torcedores: The Exclusive Malts 2005 Laphroaig 8 Year Old Single...
The best Islay whisky I’ve ever drunk – thanks to Bikram at Norfolk Wine & Spirits – was the 25 year old cask strength Laphroaig distillery bottling released in 2011. Truly magnificent. The Ardbeg...
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Puer Aeternus in an Oaken Vest: The Exclusive Malts’ 1985 Longmorn 28 Year...
John Duff built the Glenlossie distillery in 1876, Longmorn in 1893 and BenRiach in 1897. That’s a great string of distilleries if ever there was one, but Longmorn – if the bottling under review here...
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Like a Master Boatwright’s Apprentice: The Classic Cask’s 1991 Bunnahabhain...
Bunnahabhain is one of those distilleries I can usually pick out of a line-up – especially independent bottlings of it. Its juice, in those instances, typically displays a very tight, subtle structure...
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