January 2011
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Tasting Notes: Old Pulteney 17 and 21
Old Pulteney is a Highland whisky, and the northern-most distillery on the Scottish mainland. Located in the coastal harbor town of Wick (and featuring a big-ass ship on its bottle), it is sometimes called the “maritime malt.”
The distillery uses non-peated malt in its production, and is distinguished from all but 4 other distilleries in that it uses dried, rather than liquid, yeast...
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Tasting Notes: Forty Creek Confederation Oak...
Just one of the advantages to knowing thoughtful, pretty Canadian girls: I received this rare whisky as a very generous present this winter. Furthermore, it is as-of-yet unavailble in the US (although I hear that the second batch will be coming here at some point).
Forty Creek Distillery, founded and run by the ex-wine producer John K. Hall, is only ten years old but has already become a...
The Whisky Bloggers Are Alright
Or, Why the Whisky Industry Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Embrace Digital Marketing
There’s a whisky blogger backlash brewing. Tim Forbes, of the Whisky Exchange, fired the first shot way back in November when he published an opinion piece in Whisky Magazine lambasting the whisky blogosophere. (You can read the full piece for free if you give Whisky Magazine your email address).
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40 Whiskies Under $40: Tamdhu 10 year old
In an unfortunate turn of events, The Edrington Group, owners of Macallan, Glen Rothes, Highland Park, and Tamdhu, mothballed the latter distillery earlier this year.
Although there are no immediate plans to reopen the distillery, their stocks will continue to exist (and age) for a while to come, and grocery store shelves will likely carry Tamdhu products for the forseeable future. Since...
Course Offering at the Oriental Institute at the...
Chicagoans: starting next week I’ll be co-teaching a class, open to the public, at the Oriental Institute entitled:
“Our Liver is Happy, Our Heart is Joyful:” Drinks and Drinking Culture in the Ancient Near East
Normally the OI doesn’t publicize these offerings, but we’ve still got space to fill and it might interest some of you drinking scholars out there. Here’s the...
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40 Whiskies Under $40: Macphail’s Collection...
It’s really great that the famous Gordon & Macphail shop and indie bottler has revived their Macphail’s Collection range of generally younger, cheaper, but high-quality single malts. Their Highland Park 8 year old was excellent (for the price; good either way), and I was excited to see this Islay malt for under $40.
Macphail’s Collection Bunnahabhain 8 years old
Price: $35.
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Mike, Mike and Dan's Favorite Whisky Party posts...
Instead of doing a top ten list for 2010 based on traffic (we didn’t think our regular readers were consistently hitting up our review of McClelland’s Single Malt), we each wanted to start off the new year by identifying our favorite Whisky Party posts from 2010. We hope that we can continue this wonderful whisk(e)y journey and consistently drink to the health of our friends, family,...
