Best in Blog #14: Tasting Notes and Whiskey News on the Web
The Holidays are coming up (for those of us states-side). What will folks be drinking? I’ve got a bottle of Buffalo Trace that I plan to infuse with bacon. I’ll have pics and maybe even some video of that early next week.
Tasting Notes From Bloggers We Trust:
- Dubber (of Dubber and Clutch) goes to Holland and tried the only Frisian single malt – the Frysk Hynder 3 year old.
- Scotch Hobbyist samples Laphroaig’s Cairdeas 2009 and Batch 001 of Laphroaig’s 10 Year Cask Strenth.
- Tasting in reverse? John Hansell of Malt Advocate wants your thoughts on Macallan’s “Fine Oak” line.
- Whisky Fun cracks open three very old Glenlivets and five independent bottlings of Caol Ila.
- Whisky Intelligence (as always) has multiple reviews of some great independent bottlings. Here are their thoughts on a Strathisla 48 from Gordon & MacPhail, as well as a Clynelish 10 Sherry Cask, Bunnahabhain 31, Glenturret 13, and Laphroaig 18, all from Dewar Rattry.
- And just before I posted this, he also released tasting notes on a new bottling from Springbank – an 18 year old matured entirely in Madeira Wood.
- Ruben at Whisky Notes takes a look at a third bottling of “Daily Drams.” This time it’s “Ciao All” (Caol Ila). He also tastes some MacDuff 1990 (Malts of Scotland) (aka Glen Deveron), and
Whisk(e)y News on the Web:
- Nonjatta tours Japan’s Nishinomiya Distillery.
- Whisky Cast is live with a new episode spotlighting Templeton Rye.
- The Glenrothes has two new vintages: a 20 year old from 1988 and a 10 year old from 1998.
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