First, I haven’t had the chance to maintain my whiskey blog for a while, and what would be better than pulling another release from Dràm Mòr out of my sleeve? Tonight’s pick is the 13-year-old Secret Orkney, a golden beauty of a dram. It has matured in a...
A couple of weeks ago, I had the absolute pleasure of joining a #tweetasting with Steve Rush (@thewhiskywire) and Walsh Whiskey (@walshwhiskey). It consisted of two expressions of The Irishman and two expressions of Writers’ Tears, and this particular review is...
Everyone who knows me knows how much I love and admire Teeling Whiskey. A few people have even called me an “unofficial ambassador of Irish whiskey in Norway” because I never miss a chance to share my love for Irish whiskey in general. Over the years since...
Wemyss Malts Velvet Fig is a blend consisting of five ex-sherry hogshead casks of 1994 vintage Speyside and Highland single malts and 15 ex-sherry hogshead casks of 1988 vintage unpeated Bunnahabhain single malt. All 20 casks were then blended and transferred into 14...
Balcones High Plains Texas Single Malt Whisky is made entirely from barley, grown and malted in Texas, and was born from a collaboration between Balcones Distilling and Blackland Malts (Texas’ first malthouse). Blackland Malts worked together with Texas A&M...
It is not every day one gets the chance to taste a real piece of Irish history, but tonight I am tasting a John Jameson 15-year-old from the Very Special Old Whiskey bottling series. It is one of the last blended versions from Bow Street Distillery in Dublin, which...
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