Best in Blog: Port Ellens Cheap and Not, Laphroaig 18, and Abhainn Dearg
Time for another roundup of news and tasting notes from some of my favorite scotch blogs.
- Cask Strength gives a history lesson on the royal seal found on all bottles of Laphroaig (the 15 year is Prince Charles’ favorite single malt), along with tasting notes of the soon-to-be-released (stateside) Laphroaig 18. He takes a few swipes at the 15 year (un-justifiably in my view) along the way, but having tasted a pre-production dram of the 18 year just a few months ago, I can’t fault his review.
- Serge at Whisky Fun reviews four 26 year independent bottlings of Port Ellen and two Hazelburns.
- Scotch Hobbyist describes how he managed to drink some Port Ellen 7th Annual Release on the cheap.
- The Scotch Blog introduces us to Abhainn Dearg, a new distillery in the Western Hebrides. It is the first distillery in the region since the 1840s, and it will release its first legal (at least three years matured) single malts in 2011.
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