The Basics: Do I recommend it?: Only to serious Scotch enthusiasts and completionists Availability: Auction ABV: 43% Presentation: Unspecified General information: Distilled 1991, bottled 2008, ~17 years old, matured in refill bourbon barrels Bottling type: Independent Character: Cereal, light fruit and herbal Score: 77/100 The details: Located in the East-Central Highland town of Montrose, Lochside …
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The Basics: Do I recommend it?: Yes Availability: UK-based specialty retail ABV: 55.6% abv (cask strength) Presentation: Unchillfiltered and natural color General information: Rye cask finish Bottling type: Independent Character: Honeyed, spicy, herbal and nutty Score: 92/100 The details: Diageo’s workhorse distillery in the northern highlands, Teaninich (pronounced chee-nin-nick), churns out over 10 million liters …
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Availability…It is, but it isn’t! Highly recommended For the details… I am, unabashedly, a single malt Scotch drinker first and foremost and a more general whisky/whiskey drinker only secondarily. I started drinking single malts in my late teens, and only came to other types of whisky/whiskey a little later, when I was in my early …
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 …
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 …
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