…Once again, a huge thank you for all your support — I look forward to raising a glass of something suitably celebratory to you all! 🥃
Thank you for being part of the Dramfotainment!
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Well, how time flies when you’re having dramming-based fun! Today marks the 16th anniversary of The Whisky Wire and of my time in the industry as a whole…
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…Thank you for being part of the Dramfotainment!
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Catch up with all of this weeks copper-bottomed news stories from @thewhiskywire.bsky.social including stories from: Maker's Mark, Bulleit Bourbon, Oban, Glen Moray, Bruichladdich, Ardbeg, The Dalmore and Remus: thewhiskywire.com #TheWhiskyWire #Whisky #Whiskey #News
Catch up with all of this week's copper-bottomed news stories from: Compass Box, Virginia Distilling Company, Michter's, Starward, Bernheim, Yellowstone and Johnnie Walker, over on the website: thewhiskywire.com
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Massive thank you to Brave New Spirits and to Steve Rush for another great Whisky tasting with a rum addition.
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I thoroughly enjoyed the Glen Elgin, but who doesn’t enjoy a port finished whisky!
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Single Barrel Australian Rum
Palate: Sweet, thick & syrupy. Concentrated flavour needs water. Spicy and Hot alcohol. Golden syrup meets a ginger cake.
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Single Barrel Australian Rum
Nose:
Potent! Vegetal, damp hay & grass. Oak, some hints of walking past a nail shop. Golden syrup oat bars then golden syrup sponge pudding. Elements of grain whisky
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8 Year Old Inchgower
Finish: Bitter, Mike chocolate cocoa, hazelnut.
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8 Year Old Inchgower
Palate with water:
Apple & pear, cinnamon & cardamom. Wax, orchard fruit pie.
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8 Year Old Inchgower
Palate:
Sweet, sugary, honey nut cornflakes.
Apple & grape skin, dried hay. Orange oil.
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8 Year Inchgower
Nose With Water: More savoury, but still sweet. Dried herbs, candy floss, apple, cinnamon & ginger
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8 Year Old Inchgower
Nose: Fragrant & sweet. Sugar icing, floral, touch petrichor, camphor, cardamom, waxy,
kumquat skin.
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Glen Elgin 12 Year Old
Palate with water - sweet & sour, strawberry & cream boiled sweets, pear juice, cinnamon & nutmeg.
Dry and bitter finish.
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Glen Elgin 12 Year Old
Palate: Sweet & syrupy. Berry jam. Apple & blackberry pie. Orange & almond oil.
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Glen Elgin 12 Year
Nose with Water - Sherbet, summer berries & cream.
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Glen Elgin 12 Year Old
Nose: Dry sweetness & herbaceous: spices of liquorice, sarsaparilla & clove. Faint berry jam.
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North British 13 Year Old
Finish: oak, dried hay, chilli caramel.
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North British 13 Year Old
Palate: Sweet grain, Varnished wood, burnt caramel, maple & vanilla. Toblerone Chocolate Bar!!!.
Damp cardboard. Black Pepper
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North British 13
Nose With water there was an intense golden syrup that lingered in addition to the prior notes.
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North British 13 Year Old
Nose: Sweet grain, vanilla & caramel, Freshness of a Citrus mousse, then comes Dried Hay.
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Royal Brackla 12
Finish: dry, bitter & malt.
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Royal Brackla 12
Palate: Dry apricot, peach crème, malty biscuits, touch of a metallic copper tang.
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Royal Brackla 12
Nose: Herbal & spices. Faint lemon meringue, Carmel coffee latte, woody, hay & earthy.
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...along with getting reacquainted with cask strength variants of their SPEY Trutina and SPEY Fumare bottlings. Pure dramming class in a glass!
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...It was a genuine thrill to share a couple of their recent releases: SPEY Chairman’s Choice PX and SPEY 12 Year Old...
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The biggest of thanks to all those who took part and followed last nights epic Speyside Distillery Tasting, which managed to trend on both X and Bluesky...
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...but a whole wave of fresh, regularly updated content is on the way!
Once again, a huge thanks for all your support — I look forward to raising a glass of something suitably celebratory to you all! 🥃
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...After many years of hoping to do so, I finally managed to revamp and relaunch the website earlier this year. I’m still finishing off the final licks of paint and updating the last batch of historical content...
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