Limited - UK or EU specialty shops Worth a try for the enthusiast For the details… Most of the distilleries in Scotland’s remote northern Highlands lie a stone’s throw from the A9, which winds its way along the North Sea coast before ducking inland to make its final jaunt to Thurso, on the north coast. …
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Octomore (Bruichladdich) 13.1
Specialty shops in UK, EU and major US cities Highly recommended For the details… Islay’s Bruichladdich distillery produces three distinct varietals: the core Bruichladdich range, using unpeated malt, Port Charlotte, using heavily peated malt, and Octomore, using super heavily peated malt. Port Charlotte is the nearest town, and also the name of a now defunct …
Gordon & MacPhail to shift away from independent bottling
Per The Herald, Gordon & MacPhail, one of Scotland's oldest independent bottlers, has announced recently that, starting in 2024, it will no longer fill casks from distilleries it does not own. The firm has been in the whisky brokering business for most of its existence, and has been bottling single malts from distilleries both widely …
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Rosebank 12 (Flora and Fauna)
Mostly gone Recommended, if you can find it for a halfway reasonable price For the details… Rosebank's fate has historically been closely linked to the Forth and Clyde Canal, which linked Edinburgh and the Firth of Forth in the east with Glasgow and the Firth of Clyde in the west. The canal was built in …
Rosebank rises from the ashes!
If you're well-versed in the history of single malts, you're probably well aware that the Scotch whisky industry has had a boom-to-bust cycle over the years. One of the worst busts in recent history was the "whisky loch" of the early to mid-1980s (so-called because there was enough surplus whisky to "fill a loch"). With …
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