If you’re into whisky enough to regularly check up on whisky websites or YouTube channels–especially those related to Scottish enthusiast Roy, better known as Aquavitae–there’s a good chance you’ve heard talk of “natural presentation” or "integrity presentation". Even if you haven’t heard those particular turns of phrase, you’ve probably heard single malt enthusiasts prattling on …
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Everywhere! A good introduction For the details… Few distilleries have the mystique and the pull of Glenlivet. There seems to have been illicit distilling in the vicinity from at least 1774, when Andrew Smith began running stills at Upper Drumin. His son George inherited the concern in 1817, and was one of the first on …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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