The Basics: Do I recommend it?: Yes! Availability: Widespread ABV: 47.4% Presentation: Unchillfiltered General information: Heavily peated Bottling type: Proprietary Character: Smoky, maritime and surprisingly…Mexican? Score: 94/100 The details: I try to mix it up with my reviews; review some obscure stuff that you’ll only be able to dig up at auction, if even there, …
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Lochside 1991 (Gordon & MacPhail/Connoisseur’s Choice)
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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Teaninich 14 (Alistair Walker Whisky/Infrequent Flyers)
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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Buffalo Trace
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 …
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 …
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