ARDBEG CORRYVRECKAN TASTING NOTES Peated.Around 55 PPM – parts per million phenol – the concept we use to compare peatiness in Scotch whisky57.1% abv.Day for Tasting is Tuesday 29 August 2023.Weather is dry, really blustery day with sunshine, but low...
Ritual and Ceremony in Whisky Drinking I know many whom upon cracking open a fresh bottle of Scotch, throw the cork in the fire…However, this hopeful ritual and opening ceremony seldom happens nowadays – mainly, it must be said, because few people still have a real...
BOWMORE ~ The CHANGELING 22 YO Tasting Notes The Changeling BOWMORE 22 YO20 and a half years in bourbon cask, and 18 months in white port casks.Casks are from the 80s – the famous era! giving it a more floral note. (French Whore’s Perfume Look it up… 😉)PPM 25 -30...
A Trip to Aberfeldy Islay Whisky Academy Kinship Host, Neill Murphy, reflects on a visit to Dewar’s Aberfeldy Distillery in Highland Perthshire. Scotch whisky is at its finest when it reflects something of the place it comes from. The landscape, the climate, the...
Tasting Notes - Caol Ila Moch 8 – 10 Years Old All refill casks Around 38 PPM – parts per million phenol – how we quantify the peaty flavour of the whisky. 43% abv ~ alcohol by volume. How strong the whisky is – 43 % is not that strong, in...
BIBLEGATE & SCOTCH IS SEXYI believe there are many strands of intention at play in the JM/BP saga. Or Biblegate, as I’m now calling it. We need to differentiate between talking about whisky as sexy and/or talking about whisky and women as being...
