Widely available Highly-ish recommended For the details… Located in the northeastern coastal Highland village of Brora, Clynelish (pronounced to rhyme with “wine” and “leash”) was built by the Marquess of Stafford in 1819. He later became the Duke of Sutherland, and was instrumental in the Highland clearances, which forced tenant farmers off the land to …
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Ardnamurchan AD 03.21:02
Similar expressions are fairly widely available Highly recommended For the details… Ardnamurchan is one of the newer distilleries in Scotland, part of a general distilling and building boom in the industry. Located on the remote Ardnamurchan peninsula along Scotland’s west coast, Ardnamurchan is roughly due west of Fort William, and northwest of Oban. It was …
Mortlach – The Wee Witchie – 12 year old
Fairly wide availability Decent, but not great For the details... The Speyside town of Dufftown was once known as Mortlach. The town’s first legal distillery, founded in 1823, took that earlier name as its namesake. Over the years, as distilling boomed on Speyside, numerous other distilleries joined Mortlach in the town, leading to the saying …
Lagavulin 9 Year Old – Game of Thrones Edition (House Lannister)
Fairly wide availability A choice pick For the details... With the popularity of the long-running HBO fantasy drama, crossovers were inevitable. Diageo got into the arena with Game of Thrones themed releases from many of their regularly bottled distilleries, with Lagavulin becoming the stand-in for the cunning and proud House Lannister. Lagavulin was founded in …
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Ardbeg 10 year old
Widely available Highly recommended For the details... I have a love-hate relationship with Ardbeg. On the one hand, the distillery’s cult status annoys me, the association with stablemate Glenmorangie annoys me, and the gimmicky committee bottlings simultaneously entice and…you guessed it…annoy me. I also went through an odd phase of buying bottles of Ardbeg and …
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