We’re excited to announce that we’ll be doing a couple of tasting events in St Andrews during the golf open this week. Two nights of the very best of Scottish culture, taking in the history and folklore surrounding some of Scotland’s finest drams.
Thursday 15th July:
This evening presents a wide selection of stunning malts from throughout [...]
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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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