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Glen Elgin is one of Speyside’s quieter distilleries (and another proof is we haven’t reviewed many yet), but it has a style that rewards a closer look. In this article, we’re tasting four Glen Elgin whiskies, three of them independently bottled (by That Boutique-y Whisky Company, Chorlton and Lady of the Glen), and using them as a way into a distillery that deserves more attention than it usually gets.
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Glasgow Distillery has become one of the interesting names in Scotch whisky, doing so many things right (nice people, nice whisky, nice prices) and this line-up shows why. From the core range to the small-batch releases, these six whiskies give a good sense of what the distillery does best and how far it is willing to push things.
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We conclude our celebrity and whisky week (after the Laphroaig Willem Dafoe and the Glenmorangie Harrison Ford) with a Lagavulin 11-year-old Nick Offerman 3rd edition, and we compare it to the 12-year-old Special Release 2021. Nick Offerman, as I’ve mentioned in the review of the 4th edition, is a known big fan of Lagavulin distillery. It first appeared as some kind of joke in the (brilliant and very fun) TV show Parks & Recreations, but in fact it was based on a true love for this Islay distillery. And since it’s our first Lagavulin dedicated blog post here, let’s introduce the distillery first, as we have not done it yet!
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Glenmorangie Harrison Ford takes the spotlight after Monday’s Laphroaig 14-Year-Old Willem Dafoe review, as our celebrity-and-whisky week continues with another heavyweight pairing. It makes for a neat contrast with Dafoe’s wonderfully eccentric Islay turn, and it sets the stage for Friday’s final collaboration as the week’s closing act.
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There are so many distilleries now in Scotland that it’s hard sometimes to remember if some of them have been covered at least once on More Drams or not. For instance, I was sure, having tried a few Torabhaig these last couple years, that I had reviewed their inaugural release and a couple of the next expressions they released. And I was wrong. So, let’s at least repair that mistake, by introducing Torabhaig distillery and reviewing their first core range expression, Torabhaig Taigh House Style.
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Pour yourself a dram or a coffee (or whatever you fancy), as today we’re having many whiskies reviewed, with 7 + 1 Springbank Local Barley. We’re tasting all but one of the recent Local Barley expressions released since 2019 (so we’re starting with one bottled in 2018), plus as a bonus, a vatting sample from one of them, tried before its final bottling and release, during my Eat, Sleep, Dram, Repeat tour at Springbank back in July 2023.
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We’re flying at high altitude today with two very high-level secret Speyside whiskies bottled in 2017 by Antique Lions of Spirits (ALOS). Antique Lions of Spirits is an independent bottling collaboration based in Italy, but we’ll learn more about it below. In our glasses today are two very old Speyside single malts, distilled in 1973 and 1975, and both bottled in 2017.
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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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Chain Pier and Bonnington are two names linked by Edinburgh whisky history, with the former acting as the short-lived precursor to the latter. In this review, we’re looking at a Chain Pier 2019 bottled by Hogshead Import and a Bonnington 2021 bottled by The Caskhound, two releases that help trace that transition from experimental beginnings to full-scale production.
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