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Little Brown Dog Ardmore Single Cask The MakerLittle Brown Dog Spirits was founded in 2018 by Chris Reed and Andrew Smith at an Aberdeenshire farm. Named for the family dog which has since sadly died, Little Brown Dog has quickly made a ...

Whisky Review: Little Brown Dog Ardmore Single Cask

A powerful little PX single cask finish with a label that celebrates the late, great Colin McRae.

A decent little dram this.

#whisky #scotch #singlemalt @LBDspirits

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Decent. Not as good as the 8yo port one from Kilkerran from a few years back

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What I’m drinking this month.

43%

It’s a classic. It’s 10 years old. It’s a bit of a sherry bomb. And it’s under 46%.

Hard to go wrong with Edradour.

I was forced to use face recognition to access a whisky review this week.

Government overreach through the bad drafting of legislation continues.

yeah we had the side by side and there's really no difference.

Tamnavulin Sherry Cask The MakerTamnavulin was established in 1966 by Invergordon Distillers Ltd but had little success or notoriety given its primary focus on producing malt at scale for blending. As such, few mourned its ...

A new #whisky review on the blog. This time it's the Tamnavulin Sherry Cask.

You've seen it on many supermarket shelves, but is it good for the price?

#singlemalt #scotch

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This month’s review: Adelphi Caol Ila 12yo.

A great whisky from a great independent bottler. Cask strength refill sherry butt. And all the joy that brings

#whisky #whiskey #singlemalt #islay #scotch

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I could not resist this multi-pack offer online. Yes it worked out about £20 more for the CS than normal retail prices, but getting hold of it at RRP seems near impossible these days.

Nine years ago the godfather of Brexit, Lord Daniel Hannan, predicted life in Brexit Britain in June 2025. Roll the tape…
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Oh dear. The bottle is empty. I blame the wife.

Just arrived in Majorca. When in Spain do as the Spanish to and get yourself some brandy.

For my money the Grand old Duke of Scotland never fails to hit the spot.

Shame it’s relatively hard to get in the UK.

Ardbeg An Oa The MakerIf you ever visit Ardbeg on the rocky and beautiful southern coast of Islay the first thing they will tell you is that the distillery was founded in 1815. The second thing they’ll tell you is...

This month's #whisky review is the Ardbeg An Oa.

It's a core range with lots of PX maturation. It's a decent and accessible malt at a fair price. I'd say Ardbeg has the best core range on Islay, shame about the marketing at times...

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Islay Whisky Classics No.65 – Bunnahabhain 18yo Pedro Ximenez Finish Another Feis Ile Bottling from Bunnahabhain , this one from 2010 , 6 years in the PX casks , turn out was 384 bottles and bottled at 51.4% . There is one thing for sure , you can’t go wrong w…

Just posted my thoughts on the recently opened Bunnahabhain 18yo PX Finish . Have also added a page listing all the previous Islay Whisky Classics .
#bunnahabhain #whisky #IslaySingleMaltWhisky

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Hope it’s better than last year’s at least.

Thanks!

Hope it gets to you soon. Prices and availability in the UK has been decent of late so maybe that’s a good sign

Kilkerran 16 [2022 Edition] The MakerKilkerran is produced at the Glengyle distillery in Campbeltown. It was originally founded in 1872 by William Mitchell, brother of John Mitchell who set up the Springbank distillery which now...

There’s been so much Campbeltown on the interest over the last week, so what’s one more post?

The Kilkerran 16 is easily one of the best things to come from that region.

It’s simple, yet refined, and always great,

#whisky #scotch #singlemalt #whiskey

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Longrow Peated The MakerLongrow is a brand rather than a distillery. One of the three brands housed at the much coveted Springbank distillery in Campbeltown. The internet is full of reviews and articles praising Spr...

#Longrow might well be my favourite of the #Springbank family. It’s heavily peated, twice distilled classicism appeals to me above more complex production methods.

This is the core range NAS version. Cheap, available, yet still brilliant.

#whisky #scotch

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Murray McDavid Benchmark 9yo Glencadam The Maker Murray McDavid is the 1994 brainchild of established whisky and wine merchants Gordon Wright, Mark Reynier and Simon Coughlin. While quickly successful on the independent bottling scene, thi...

A sherry bomb Glencadam from Murray McDavid.

I’ll be honest, I wasn’t a huge fan of this. Too much cask influence and rather hot. Took a lot of work to get it to a better place.

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Hepburn's Choice Caol Ila 10yo Port The MakerHunter Laing remains a family business having been established as a whisky blender in post-war Glasgow. Much like similar companies such as Cadenhead’s and Gordon and MacPhail, Hunter Laing h...

You can’t go too long between bottles of Caol Ila.

This one spent ten years in two Port barrels. It’s decent, but not great compared to others.

#whisky #scotch #singlemalt #whiskey #islay

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yeah, i'm not going back at those prices. maybe then there's a 8/10yo out.

Lagg Corriecravie The MakerWhat do you do if you’re running a highly successful and respected distillery on the Isle of Arran? If you’re Arran Distillery the answer is simple: you start another one! Yet there’s little ...

After the great successes of Arran, Lagg was established on the south coast to specialise in heavily peated malts

This is the inaugural sherried release that’s very good, but far too expensive for what it is.

#whisky #scotch #singlemalt #whiskey #islands

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Tonight I’m curating a tasting to mark Five years of Cardiff Whisky Group using the six distilleries that have received the best scores in that time.

That’s over 450 whiskies from ~120 identifiable distilleries. And we’ve only scratched the surface.

#whisky #scotch #singlemalt

Thompson Bros Bunnahabhain (Moine) 11yo The MakerPhil and Simon Thompson are well known to whisky nerds as the managers of the Dornoch Castle Hotel in the northern Highlands - about an hour up the road from Inverness. After a successful ‘ki...

Today on the blog is a ‘challenging’ peated Bunnahabhain from Thompson Bros.

It’s intense stuff and not for everyone like much of their output.

#whisky #whiskyreview #islay #scotch #singlemalt #whiskey

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Deception Distilled? The Unravelling Of A Whisky Cask Investment Scheme And Its Links To Dekantā by Andrew Lui, Ph.D., C.W.S.   Who really is dekantā's Makiyo Masa?   With the boom in the global whisky industry over the past few decades, fraudulent activity may be more widespread than we’ve care...

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Simply Whisky Memories [Blair Athol] The MakerSimply Whisky is the passion of two business partners who have been running whisky related events since 2006. These events range from tasting sessions for minor European royalty and corporate...

Blair Athol is often an underrated #whisky. So much sweetness and depth for something which mostly ends up in blends.

This one from Simply Whisky is a particularly good example.

#scotch #singlemalt #whiskyreview #whiskey

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