Single malt from Wales
Partly to celebrate St David’s Day today – but mostly because it was long overdue, Clutch and I decided to try the samples of Penderyn that the Welsh Whisky company had kindly sent us.
Nose:
Custard, vanilla, tangerine, honey-roasted peanuts, tiny touch of smoke.
Palate:
Flumps. Seriously: Flumps. Also, condensed milk, cream toffee… Penderyn [...]
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Don’t call it a whisky
My housemate came back from the Isle of Man, and brought back a bottle of Manx. At first glance, we thought it was new make spirit – whisky that’s not old enough to be called whisky (3 years), but then we looked into it properly and were surprised to learn that [...]
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Photo by practicalowl
Hi – Compliments of the season and all that.
We’ve been having a bit of a hiatus from the online whisky tastings for a little while. I’ve been travelling rather a lot these last six months, and Clutch has been altogether too wrapped up in the whole new dadhood thing.
Plus, when we have [...]
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UK trumpeter Matt Halsall with Mario from Mario’s bar
Another tale of European travel.
I was in Genoa in the northern part of Italy a week or so back, and as is my way, I decided to go looking for a single malt. To my delight, it seemed that every bar in town had a genuine Scottish [...]
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I’ve been doing a little travel lately, and have found myself in some interesting places. And while the travel itself wasn’t whisky-related specifically, I did take it upon myself to at least inject a bit of a whisky theme into the proceedings.
I was in the North of Holland doing some (un)consultancy and was taken out [...]