April 2009
5 posts
Youth to Power or Too Powerful?
Here’s an article we liked about the new prevalence of younger whiskies among distillery expressions: Four Year Old Whisky Comes of Age.
I think this is a great trend. Laphroaig is on top of it with the genius of the Quartercask bottling (a vatting of whiskies 5-9 years of age). These younger, (sometimes) cheaper bottles balance out the trend toward rising prices in general.
But I think...
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Two Indie Highland Park 13 years
During my run of HP tastings, I decided to indulge in a couple of independent bottlings of the stuff. The first is from Signatory’s Un-chillfiltered series. The second is by an excellent bar in Chicago, Delilah’s, done specially for their 13th anniversary (and, thusly, only available to you if you visit the Windy City’s northside).
Highland Park Signatory Un-chillfiltered 13...
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Highland Park 12, 18, and 25 year olds
There had been some debate between friends at the Whisky Party whether Highland Park, the northern-most distillery in Scotland, produced scotch that is good, great, or (imagine this), average. I am personally an HP apologist, and I sat down over the last week to taste a handful of their Orkney-born products. One thing that became even more apparent than usual is that HP is anything but usual. ...
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10 Cheap Scotches to Get You Started
A number of people here at the Whisky Party have been discussing some cheap, quality bottlings to recommend to folks just getting into drinking single malt scotch whisky. Here’s what one of us came up with. Let us know what you think:
Jura Superstition (young peated casks vatted with 23 yo unpeated casks from a unique Island distillery; $40-45)
Highland Park 12 yo (one of my favorites, a...
