This is a bottling from a few years ago – around 2008/9 I think – when it was bottled at 40%, as opposed to the current bottling’s 43%. There’s a few of these bottles still kicking around Dan Murphys’ shelves, and as they’re still at ’08 prices, worth a look. Let’s see… Longmorn 12 Year
A Lowland malt this time, a region that I recently realised was embarrassingly lacking on my shelves. I’m not entirely sure what the story is with Bladnoch at the moment – is it definitely closed, or will someone snap it up and revive production? It certainly seemed to be a startling – and frankly almost
I’ve written before about my aversion to, and unwillingness to get caught up in, the marketing bullshit that surrounds and supports whiskies/brands like Ardbeg. Not that I don’t drink nor enjoy them at all, of course, just that I try to remain resolutely impassive in the face of the (rarely convincing or interesting) PR bombardment
I picked up this Highland Park 21 for around $100 AUD – about a third of the original asking price for it here in Oz – after an extremely welcome tip-off on Twitter. I’m assuming this is the later, non-Duty Free, release of this particular HP OB. I was extremely curious as to the provenance
It’s been a while between posts. A ridiculously relentless and stubborn cold (my espresso tasted like soil and my malts like metal – something ferrous, bizarrely enough), a (seemingly) increasingly energetic and demanding son (and another on the way very soon – what was I thinking? I blame the booze), together with an ailing relative
An old Polish mariner went to the same bar every day and ordered two big glasses of vodka, one for him and one for his friend at sea, and drank them both down. One day he walked into the bar and said “One glass of vodka please.” The bartender, surprised asked: “Only one? What happened
The Moon Under Water is an essay written by George Orwell that was published in The Evening Standard on the 9th February 1946. I came across it the other day and was struck by how many writers from the mid-twentieth century seem to have been so particular about the nature and surroundings of their booze.
The Glenlivet 16 year old Nadurra, particularly the early batches, gets a lot love from whisky geeks. While I’ve not had too many different examples, those I have tried I have enjoyed. It’s about 100 bucks here in Australia, so while that doesn’t make it quite the bargain it seems to be in the US
“This is the kind of morning that requires a leg up. The depth and nature and quality of the leg you have given me, however, leaves me all but speechless. A wondrous find. Vegemite toast and “Milano Fernet” really is the solution.” I am looking at a bottle. It tells a story, though more like
Not being an adept in the sometimes mind-bendingly complex (for me anyway) world of Hanyu/Ichiro bottlings and releases, I got myself all confused trying to work through the apparent discrepancies in accounts and details of this one, having purchased a sample from whiskysample.nl. Long story short (and as I’m sure many are well aware), there were