An Ode to the Islay Whisky Academy Islay Whisky Academy Kinship Host, Neill Murphy, reflects on a magical Spring Residential Diploma. The Islay Whisky Academy Residential Diploma for Spring 2024 has wrapped. It doesn’t quite seem real. Those six days spent on the...
Residential Diploma 2023 Islay Whisky Academy Kinship Host, Neill Murphy, previews the 2023 edition of the IWA Residential Diploma. Everyone at the Islay Whisky Academy is getting a little excited as we draw towards the end of October, and it’s not because...
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...
