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 …
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Annandale Man o’Sword – Founders’ Selection
Somewhat hard to find Recommended For the details... Annandale is part of a renaissance of whisky-making in the Scottish Lowlands. The complex regulatory history of Scotch whisky meant that the Lowlands ended up being the forgotten whisky-making region. Malt whisky was made in the Lowlands, but the region was better known for industrial grain distilling …
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Lagavulin 9 Year Old – Game of Thrones Edition (House Lannister)
Fairly wide availability A choice pick For the details... With the popularity of the long-running HBO fantasy drama, crossovers were inevitable. Diageo got into the arena with Game of Thrones themed releases from many of their regularly bottled distilleries, with Lagavulin becoming the stand-in for the cunning and proud House Lannister. Lagavulin was founded in …
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Glen Mhor 1980 (Gordon & MacPhail)
Hard to find Only for true enthusiasts and completionists For the details... Inverness, considered to be the capital of the Highlands, might be expected to be a thriving distilling hub. It is not. Even in the midst of the current whisky boom, not a single malt distillery operates in Inverness, nor–at least as of this …
Ardbeg 10 year old
Widely available Highly recommended For the details... I have a love-hate relationship with Ardbeg. On the one hand, the distillery’s cult status annoys me, the association with stablemate Glenmorangie annoys me, and the gimmicky committee bottlings simultaneously entice and…you guessed it…annoy me. I also went through an odd phase of buying bottles of Ardbeg and …
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