Content with the tag: spicy

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

Port Ellen Distillery

Port Ellen Dis­tillery was based on the isle of Islay, Scot­land and founded by Alexan­der Mackay.

The dis­tillery was built in the 1825 by, and was acquired by Dis­tillers Com­pany Lim­ited in 1925. The dis­tillery closed in 1983, although supplies…

Springbank 1997, 11YO (Madeira Wood)

This whisky is fully matured in Madeira wood and is a new release from Spring­bank. It is matured in Madeira Wood for 11 years and bot­tled in Jan­u­ary 2009. Rich, sweet, spicy. One of the big hits at 2009 year’s…

Clynelish 14 Years

A delight­fully com­plex spicy and per­fumed nose, with some flo­ral and malty hints. 

The palate is multi-layered too, with some slight cit­rus hints on a honey back­ground with peat and deli­cious spices before a honey fin­ish with a trace of brine.

The…

Dalwhinnie 15 Years

Strik­ingly clean flavours. Salt and malt in the nose. Clear High­land malt char­ac­ter with sub­tle peati­ness. Aro­matic. Del­i­cately spicy. Unshake­able grass– and grain-type veg­e­ta­tive asso­ci­a­tions: cut grass, wheat, fields of grain. Refreshing.

A good intro­duc­tion to the delights of single…