Extremely limited Connoisseurs and completionists only! For the details… Speyside has Scotland’s highest concentration of distilleries, accounting for somewhere between one third and one quarter of the country’s operational facilities. Not all of them can be superstars, and Glentauchers is one of many Speysiders to barely make a dent in the popular imagination. Part of …
Jameson
Can’t miss it. Well…it’s fine. Not great, but not bad, and quite drinkable. For the details… My first non-Scotch was Jameson, consumed along with a dinner of fish and chips at a pub at the edge of a North Sea-facing beach in South Shields. I recall rather liking it, but evidently I didn’t love it …
Connemara
Widely available Tentatively recommended For the details… For a nation with the world’s best claim to being the birthplace of whiskey, Ireland still struggles to get its national spirit the same respect and recognition as Scotland, the United States, and arguably even Japan. Although Ireland is in the midst of a whiskey distilling boom that …
Macallan 18 year old, 1990 Edition
Auction only Recommended, with caveats For the details… Macallan. The ultimate luxury whisky, and for a while, beloved of whisky connoisseurs. An object lesson of being a victim of your own success? Macallan started its life as a farm distillery, and was licensed to one Alexander Reid in 1824, shortly after the passage of the …
Balmenach 2004 – Gordon & Macphail (Connoisseur’s Choice)
Highly limited Worth trying, if you come across it. For the details… Balmenach is unusual amongst modern malt distilleries in that it has had no official bottling in years, and is quite scarce even among independents. The whisky is well-known among aficionados as being a Speysider of the “older” style, producing a heavier spirit than …
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