*A huge thank you to Master of Malt, not only for the sample, but for being a part of this in the first place! Starting in Australia over a decade ago and spreading around the globe like a sexy five-o-clock shadow, Movember is now an international, month-long awareness and fund-raising campaign focusing on men's health … Continue reading Master of Malt’s Glenfarclas Movember 2011 – Review
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Hart Brothers 1992 Littlemill 16 Year Old – Review
*Thanks to the good folks at Impex Beverages for the sample. Read enough about enough distilleries and you'll notice several claiming to be some version of the "oldest" distillery out there. Some are "the oldest Irish", some "the oldest Scottish", some "the oldest continuous something", some just plain "the oldest". Marketers tweak a few facts … Continue reading Hart Brothers 1992 Littlemill 16 Year Old – Review
Blackadder Raw Cask 1993 Tullibardine 17 Year Old – Review
*Thanks to the good folks at Impex Beverages for the sample. Though Tullibardine is a pretty young distillery, being built in 1949, whisky was not the first refreshing beverage produced on that particular piece of land. According to the distillery, it was built on the site of an ancient brewery that won no small amount … Continue reading Blackadder Raw Cask 1993 Tullibardine 17 Year Old – Review
The Dalmore 18 Year Old – Review
*Thanks to the good folks at the Baddish Group for the sample. Rising up on either side of the Cromarty Firth's narrow opening are two 400' promontories known as "The Sutors". Sutor...or more accurately "Souter" is Scots for cobbler or shoemaker, and according to local legend, these two facing bluffs act as the workbenches for … Continue reading The Dalmore 18 Year Old – Review
Isle of Jura Prophecy – Review
*Thanks to the good folks at the Baddish Group for the sample. According to the Isle of Jura's website, the prophecy for which Prophecy is named was levelled at the Campbell family by an old woman who had been rudely evicted from her home by the aforementioned ruling clan. This woman was apparently a "seer", … Continue reading Isle of Jura Prophecy – Review
Isle of Jura Superstition – Review
*Thanks to the good folks at the Baddish Group for the sample. (Had to do it...you can never hear that song too many times.) Superstitions are really pretty silly when you come right down to it. For example, there's almost no way stepping on a crack could break a mother's back, but they'd never come … Continue reading Isle of Jura Superstition – Review
Isle of Jura “Diurach’s Own” 16 Year Old – Review
*Thanks to the good folks at The Baddish Group for the sample. According to the distillery's legend, in 1781, Jura's Laird, one Archibald Campbell, being none too keen on the locals making their own hooch willy-nilly all over the island, enacted a ban on all distilling. As you might imagine, this didn't go over too … Continue reading Isle of Jura “Diurach’s Own” 16 Year Old – Review
Isle of Jura “Origin” 10 Year Old – Review
*Thanks to the good folks at The Baddish Group for the sample. I was going to start the post off by with a brief discussion about the Paps of Jura and how, if you're going to name your island's highest points after a female body part, "paps" is a much better name than, say, the … Continue reading Isle of Jura “Origin” 10 Year Old – Review
The Dalmore Cigar Malt Reserve – Review
*Thanks to the good folks at The Baddish Group for the sample. Ahhh, the fickle, occasionally brain-dead consumer...ok, "brain-dead" is perhaps going to far, how about the fickle, occasionally unimaginative consumer? The Dalmore, for years, had produced their well-loved "Cigar Malt", yet they had a bit of a marketing conundrum. The name, it seemed, was … Continue reading The Dalmore Cigar Malt Reserve – Review
Aberlour 12 Year Old, Double Cask Matured – Review
Let me just say right off the bat that I've never been to the quiet little village of Charlestown of Aberlour which lies just down the A95 from the Aberlour Distillery, so please don't take this as any sort of travelogue or destination review...or, for that matter, thanks to a very limited travel budget at the … Continue reading Aberlour 12 Year Old, Double Cask Matured – Review
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