This is a quick guide to understanding my reviews. The title of the review is just whatever bottling or expression I will be reviewing. The first part of the body of the review should be understood as a sort of “tl;dr”–a general sense of how easily you might find what I’m reviewing, and a general …
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 …
My Tasting Philosophy
What makes whisky so special? Well, for some people--poor, benighted souls!--nothing at all. They don’t drink, for whatever reasons, or if they do drink, they prefer wine or cognac or beer, or they drink anything that gets them where they’re going--a Jack and Coke, a shot of vodka, or copious amounts of the cheapest beer …
My tasting and scoring methodology
Tasting and rating whisky is an inherently subjective business. What one person may find wonderful, another may loathe; and where I may taste cinnamon, another may detect no such flavor. Bearing this in mind, the tasting experience may be, to a very considerable extent, untranslatable. And yet nonetheless, I’ve found the tasting notes of others …
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