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Single Cask Nation Undisclosed Islay 7 Year 2008, 2nd Release (Refill Bourbon...
Tasting notes: The nose here reveals the vegetal part of the peat: the grasses, the soft mosses and heathers. There is no iodine here, and it is exceptionally clean. We also got notes of charred green...
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The newest flight arrives from the Whisk(e)y Explorers Club
We’ve covered the Whisk(e)y Explorers Club from ForWhiskeyLovers.com before, and I’ve noted most recently that I suck at the Whiskey IQ game associated with it. But the idea is simple: offer...
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The Chieftain’s Fettercairn 19 Year Old (Oloroso Sherry)
Tasting notes: I’m in steerage in a very musty ship. But the must is of a species I’ve never encountered before. Rather than typical moldy, perhaps even fungal, notes, it produces an odor more like a...
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The Glentauchers 8 Year 2008 (57.9%) from The Exclusive Malts
Tasting notes: On the nose, there’s a weird note right off the top: the best way to describe it is that it seemed that the cask held the Guinness World Record for bung holes. Bung holes all the way...
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The Dimensions Tormore 24 Year 1990 (Duncan Taylor)
Tasting notes: In the wild, the nose on this dram is a defense mechanism to protect the delicious mouth: it’s new lures in the bottom of a tackle box being courted by palmetto bugs. And those bugs are...
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The Westland Garryana 30 Months Old Native Oak from Oregon
Tasting notes: The nose on this whiskey is vibrant and wonderfully wild: it’s a smoldering crib that firefighters carry out of a burning home, only to find that the child had already been saved and it...
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The Macallan Edition No. 1
Tasting notes: In Churchillian fashion, I relay this sesquipedalian missive to my amanuensis while I luxuriate in my bath. This imperishable distillation swirls languidly in my tumbler, actively...
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The Port Ellen 32 Year 2015 Limited Edition
Tasting notes: I’m going to walk you through a meditation on this whisky. Breathe deeply and slowly. You’re sitting in an opium den in London around the time in which the original Sherlock Holmes...
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The Arran The Bothy Quarter Cask Batch 1
Tasting notes: The nose opens with a great old winey smell that quickly evolves into notes of a swimming pool used for making large batches of crabapple cider, at the edges of which are random people...
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The Laphroaig Cairdeas 2016
Tasting notes: The nose here is delicate, wistful, and slightly edgy, like a piece of hyacinth petal paper inscribed with the names of your prospective paramours. Nose it more and you get something...
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The Bunnahabhain 2006-2015 Gordon & MacPhail “the wood makes the whisky”
Tasting notes: The nose on this dram is wild with celery salt, za’atar, and promiscuous fruits: a tiny, concentrated blueberry on a date. With a date. Imagine artisanal “everything” crackers dusted...
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The Scottish Glory Blended Scotch Whisky
Tasting notes: This blend is a bit like going in to watch a movie you heard nothing about: it opens on a new pair of brown shoes with graham cracker soles, cinnamon and all, approaching an automatic...
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The Dimensions Longmorn 21 Year 1992
Tasting notes: …note a bit like an after burp, like having eaten a whole can of artichokes and having them repeat on you during your first Pre-Cana class. The withering stare from your bride to be...
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The Dimensions Glentauchers 21 Year 1992 (Duncan Taylor)
Tasting notes: I nose my way into the back of a dark, deep closet, and find pages of vellum aged to the point of gentle ripeness, each one marked with arsenic ink with the word: What does it mean? Is...
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The Cally 40 Year Old 2015 Limited Edition
Tasting notes: The Caledonian Grain Distillery closed in 1988. If the nose on this dram is any indication, the kiln room must have also dried flowers to be placed in a high school yearbook. The still...
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The Kilchoman Sanaig
Tasting notes: You’d be forgiven if you thought the name of this dram would more aptly fit within a video game: In Escape from Mordor, the final level is called “Kill Choman: Vanquish the Sanaig,” in...
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The Port Dundas 25 Year 1991 from The Exclusive Malts
Tasting notes: On the nose, this one presents with witch hazel used to whet a bit of celery-top pine bark woven into netting for catching hedgehogs (fools them every time!). There’s round sweetness...
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The Compass Box Three Year Old Deluxe
Tasting notes: -Hiya. I’d like a really old Clynelish with a much younger Clynelish chaser. -Well, if you’d like that, you’d really love this whisky instead. It’s got dark jam, like from an exotic...
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The Exclusive Malts “Islay” 8 Year 2007 (57.1% abv)
Tasting notes: This whisky is, eponymously enough, an “Islay.” As if there is more than one Islay. As if Islays grow on trees. There is only one Hebridean dreamscape so dotted with distilleries....
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The Caol Ila 17 Year Old Unpeated 2015 Limited Edition
Tasting notes: On the nose, we got honey aged in a burgundy cask, then put into a dragonfly wing chalice. The woodiness/resin note is so high register, it’s either from a Dragon Blood tree or it’s half...
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