Three Teaninich

Three Teaninich

I hesitated for a moment to call this review “Threeninich”, but, in the end, these three Teaninichs deserved something a little more dignified. This set brings together a Teaninich 10-year-old Flora & Fauna, an 11-year-old bottled by Chorlton, and a 1983 Signatory Vintage bottling from 2011, three very different snapshots of a distillery that has spent most of its life working quietly in the background.

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The Whisky Cellar Tweet Tasting

The Whisky Cellar Tweet Tasting

As I had the chance to do many times before, I participated in a Tweet Tasting organized as usual by Steve Rush from The Whisky Wire on Wednesday the 23rd of September. This time, it was not a distillery, but a “new” indy… No, not Indiana Jones. As I was saying, this time it was not a distillery, but a quite new Independent Bottler called The Whisky Cellar. We received a really nice package with five samples, a notebook and a beautiful pen made with oak from a cask stave by Andrew from miawoodcrafts. By the way, if you didn’t know what he does, go check him out, what he makes is brilliant. I do already have a pen made from a Glenfarclas stave and I love it. But let’s get back on track and talk about today’s subject: The Whisky Cellar Tweet Tasting. And let’s start by having a chat with Keith Bonnington to know more about The Whisky Cellar!

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Quick review: Teaninich 11yo batch 2 TBWC

Quick review: Teaninich 11yo batch 2 TBWC

Behind the fourth window of That Boutique-y Whisky Company’s 2019 Advent Calendar we will be reviewing each day until the 24th of December was hidden a a Teaninich 11 year-old batch 2. Bottled at 47.9% abv, this single malt bottled by that Boutique-y Whisky Company is matured in ex-bourbon casks. Teaninich is a little-known and dull-looking Highland distillery owned by Diageo and mostly used for blends north of Inverness. While little known, it has a big capacity of production of 10.2 million litres of pure alcohol per year. I could find a German website selling the 50cl bottle for around 40€ but not shipping to UK.

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