Content with the tag: cask strength

Malt Mission 2010 #382

Glen­fid­dich 102 Dis­tillery Edi­tion 15 Year Old Spey­side Sin­gle Malt Whisky 51% abv£38 $59.99 (USD)Naturally, the world’s favourite sin­gle malt isn’t used to play­ing sec­ond fid­dle. But in the USA, the world’s #1 Sin­gle Malt Scotch Whisky lives in it’s …

Malt Mission 2010 #377

Con­nemara Cask Strength Peated Irish Sin­gle Malt Whiskey 57.9% abv £44 $65 (USD)$95 (CAD)Don’t yet know if this will be a string of all Irish whiskies (couldn’t have waited til mid-March, Doc?), but we will just take it one dram at a time.We tasted th…

Laphroaig 25 YO, Cask Strength

This is a new cask-strength bot­tling of Laphroaig 25yo. The whisky is a very dif­fer­ent beast to the old 25yo. It has a rich and smoul­der­ing taste, with a big coal hit and a lin­ger­ing sea­weed char­ac­ter. Lovely stuff

Clynelish 1974 / 23 YO

The Rare Malts are a now-discontinued series of cask-strength releases designed by Dia­geo to show­case some of the hid­den trea­sures in their port­fo­lio. This is a clas­sic Clynel­ish orig­i­nally released in 1997, so stocks are now under­stand­ably very low.

Accord­ing to…

Lagavulin Distillery

Lagavulin Dis­tillery is located on the island of Islay. It has a pow­er­ful, peat-smoke aroma. Described as being robustly full bod­ied, well-balanced and smooth with a slight sweet­ness on the palate.

The stan­dard Lagavulin sin­gle malt is 16 years old…

Aberlour Distillery

Aber­lour is a dis­tillery of sin­gle malt Scotch whisky, located on Aber­lour town, Spey­side, Scot­land at the cross­ing of rivers Lour and Spey near Ben Rinnes. The Spey­side region is the most pro­lific whisky pro­duc­ing region in Scot­land, account­ing for…

Balvenie 15 years Single Barrel

Bal­ve­nies 15 years old is a bot­tled 50,4% Cask strength. It is a so called sin­gle bar­rel which means that the whiskey comes from a sin­gle bar­rel (bourbon).

Because a Bal­ve­nie 15 always comes from one bar­rel the strength and…