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May
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SMWS Cask no 25.47 This is the first tasting note from my recent visit to the Scotch Malt Whisky Society’s rooms in Queen St in Edinburgh. The Society has a tradition of not referring to their bottlings by name, but…
May
3rd
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Tasting excellence in the Hallowed Halls In midweek I had the great pleasure of attending a tasting given by the Scotch Malt Whisky Society for invited whisky bloggers at their lovely premises in Queen Street in Edinburgh. While I had…
May
2nd
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Ledaig - Mulling over the island differences Although I’ve still to finish off the first sweep of the standard Islay malts the only remaining one was heavily mentioned in my recent book review so I think it’s time to venture further afield on…
Feb
20th
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Glenmorangie ‘Cellar 13′ I just got a message from one of the girls in my office that she is looking for a bottle of the Glenmorangie ‘Cellar 13′ urgently - needs to be available in Glasgow PDQ.The Glenmorangie ‘Cellar 13′…
Oct
5th
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Northern spirit and Spanish warmth - The Lasanta Like the earlier tasting of Blair Athol, this Glenmorangie expression arrived via my father and a good friend who knows his tastes. The Tain distillery have been in the forefront of special finishes…
Aug
29th
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Whisky Dreams - book review No whisky enthusiast needs to be told about Islay, the island that is so steeped in our favourite spirit that it seems to run in the very blood of the inhabitants. Equally we are all aware of the…
Jul
30th
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No longer a compromise - Bowmore Bowmore used to be regarded in some quarters as piggy-in-the-middle; a bit of a compromise between the two extremes of the Islay tastes, but certainly in recent years this seems to me to be rather…
Jun
10th
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Rediscovering a class act - Lagavulin I remember, many years ago, trying Lagavulin a few weeks after finding Laphroaig too medicinal for my young palate, and quite liking it. However for some reason our paths have hardly ever crossed…
May
1st
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Yoichi better than Talisker? That strange whirring noise you can hear is old Scots stillmen spinning in their graves. A Japanese whisky has been named Malt Whisky of the Year by Whisky magazine. Yoichi 20 year old from Hokkaido…
Apr
30th
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The Discover Whisky Webjam I’m going social media mad today and have set up a webjam - nick ; http://www.iamnickduddy.co.uk, said it was the place to be - now how do I set up a squidoo and more to the point WTF is Squidoo anyway