Side by side : 21 Glen Scotia Single Casks

As with most distilleries @GlenScotia release their whisky after it's matured in oak casks - peated or unpeated spirit matured full term or finished in 1st fill or refill ex-bourbon, ex-sherry, ex-port or ex-wine.

If you ask @Iainmca67 the distillery's Master Distiller, he'll tell you to "keep it simple!" you get his best whisky from unpeated 1st fill ex-bourbon,  I decided to take a trip though some of my single cask bottlings to see if he was right!

More Loch Lomond Chardonnay Wine Yeast

One of my favourite @LochLomondMalts distillations is using Chardonnay Wine Yeast in a straight necked pot still, huge citrus effervescence on the tongue.

The last release was a Whisky Exchange bottling in 2020, this time Royal Mile have got in on the act!

The Whisky Cellar @TweetTastings

@whisky_cellar chose @TheWhiskyWire to launch their 5th Batch with a @TweetTastings - those who were successful received a lovely package of samples through the post.

Five bottles from the new range - let's see what the drams were like!

Core Range: Glenmorangie

Continuing the series of posts showing a distillery's core range of bottlings.

This time looking at Glenmorangie

Loch Lomond 2022 Open Golf Special Edition

The 150th Open Golf Championship starts today at the Old Course, St Andrews. @LochLomondMalts are the Official Spirit of The Open.

Here I try their 2022 Special Edition release.

#BTC23 #BlindDrams Tasting Notes

These are my tasting notes from the Blind Tasting Consortium's 23rd #BlindDrams evening.

These drams were picked by Duncan @socialdrammer

Side by side: Four Distell Finishes

Distell own three distilleries in Scotland and four in South Africa producing whisky and brandy.

A recent sample swap delivered four cask strength drams from three of these distilleries.

Virtual tasting: Firkin Whisky Company

A conversation with  @FirkinWhiskyCo led to a zoom tasting with the #RatFans #WolfPack #BlindPack #RaasayPossie #FirkinDrammers

Lets see what they were like!

Side by side: Bain's 18yo Single Grains

I've written about Bain's Single Grains before comparing the standard 5yo against it's 15yo old brother, now thanks to a whisky mule I'm able to try two of the 18yo!

Huge thanks to @DistilleryBikes for bringing these back from a recent trip to South Africa!

Side by side: A pair of Loch Lomond Single Casks

Over the last few years it's been more and more difficult to get hold of single cask releases from @LochLomondMalts in the UK, but in the last month 2 have been released!

Let's see what they are like, as good at my all time favourite Cask #40?