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Port Askaig 12, 45.8% – Speciality Drinks Ltd.
I recently got a small parcel of samples from The Whisky Exchange, including yesterday’s Midleton 1991 and this new Caol Ila Port Askaig 12. A not too new addition to their Port Askaig series which...
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Port Askaig 19, 50.4% – Speciality Drinks Ltd.
The follow up bottling of the 12 year old I did earlier, and in another way the follow up to the Port Askaig Harbour 19 year old from about two years ago. That one wasn’t bottled at cask strength...
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Port Askaig 30, 51.1% – Speciality Drinks Ltd.
The last of the three new Port Askaig releases that have recently been let loose on the market. I tried this one last because I wanted to build up in age. I didn’t taste them on the same day, then...
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A Surprise tasting at De Whiskykoning (2/2)
The second half of the surprise tasting write-up at De Whiskykoning in Den Bosch. Tasting twelve whiskies in a row in just over two hours is taxing. The glasses were properly covered with glass lids so...
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Caol Ila 27, 1983-2011, 53.1% – Whiskybroker.co.uk
This is one of those samples of which I had totally forgotten it existed. Recently when we moved some furniture around I had to shift some boxes and decided to go through a bunch of samples. This is...
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The annual ‘Islay’ Tasting at De Whiskykoning – part 2
Yesterday I wrote about the first three drams we had at De Whiskykoning in November. Today I write about the rest of the evening. I might have to admit that were a tad rowdy during the tasting and Rob,...
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Two young Caol Ilas from 2007
Since the theme of the first bit of 2017 is to get through a boat load of samples, here’s two in one go. Both are from Caol Ila distillery on the eastern shore of Islay, and both are from 2007. The...
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Caol Ila 25, 1991-2016, 50.2% – Cadenhead’s Authentic Collection
A while ago I took the train to Den Bosch for a whisky tasting there, and with the other two guys I was on that train we decided to have a dram underway. This was interesting since it was rush hour and...
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