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Malt Mission 2010 #383

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The Macallan 18yo scotch whisky Spey­side Sin­gle Malt Scotch Whisky 43% abv£72$150 (USD)$289.95 (CAD)The Macallan is one of the most well-recognised malts in the world, and as such, often attracts a good deal of atten­tion, both pos­i­tive and negative.T…


Malt Mission 2010 #382

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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 #381

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Glen Moray 12yo Spey­side Sin­gle Malt Whisky 40% abv £22 $34.99 (USD)Built in 1897 out of the old West Brew­ery, Glen Moray has been a 4 still work­horse for blended whiskies for decades. Mac­don­ald and Muir, later to become Glen­morangie plc (1996), purch…


Malt Mission 2010 #374

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The Bal­ve­nie 17yo Madeira CaskSpey­side Sin­gle Malt Whisky 43% abv£67 $130 (USD)Dr. Whisky’s most recent post attracted a good share of atten­tion. This atten­tion took var­i­ous forms and lead to vari­able responses from var­ied cor­ners of this world wide w…


Malt Mission 2009 #373

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Ben­ro­mach 10yo Spey­side Sin­gle Malt Whisky43% abv £29 $50When I was in Scot­land in July I was in touch with Ian Chap­man at Ben­ro­mach and after a short vol­ley of emails he very kindly invited me to see their dis­tillery. Upon arrival, I was greeted by I…


Benriach Distillery

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The Ben­Ri­ach dis­tillery is a sin­gle malt Scotch whisky dis­tillery in the Spey­side area of Scot­land. It is oper­ated inde­pen­dently by the Ben­Ri­ach Dis­tillery Com­pany Lim­ited, formed by two South African whisky enthu­si­asts Geoff Bell and Wayne Keiswet­ter and Scotch…


Aultmore Distillery

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Ault­more Dis­tillery lies sev­eral miles north of the town of Keith on the east­ern fringe of Spey­side. The dis­tillery was estab­lishedby Alexan­der Edwards and build­ing com­menced in 1895. The dis­tillery ini­tially did very well and pro­duc­tion was dou­bled in the…


Ardmore Distillery

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Ard­more dis­tillery was founded in 1898, on the East­ern edge of Spey­side at Ken­neth­mont. Just one year after it was built, the whisky mar­ket col­lapsed due to over sup­ply but Ard­more sur­vived. This was mainly due to the fact that…


Glenglassaugh Distillery

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The Glen­glas­saugh Dis­tillery is a 133 year old whisky dis­tillery located in a pic­turesque site just out­side the Spey­side region in North­east Scot­land, close to the small town of Port­soy, Banff­shire some 54 miles North­west of Aberdeen. The Dis­tillery was…


Tormore Distillery

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Tor­more dis­tillery is located approx­i­mately 1 km south of the River Spey.

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The Tor­more is one of the younger Scot­tish whiskies, the dis­tillery being com­pleted in 1960. It was the first new dis­tillery to be built in the coun­try in…


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