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Speyside Hero Vol. VI Blended Malt

Johannes Lindblom — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 11:21:17 +0000

Speyside Hero is a series of blended malt expressions by an German independent whisky bottler called The Whisky Chamber (owned by Thomas Ide). I found this expression on my trip to Berlin, from Simply Great Whisky shop. SGW had a quite large selection of Whisky Chamber’s blended malt whiskies and […]

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The Latitude 55° Blended Scotch Review

Johannes Lindblom — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 12:08:40 +0000

The Latitude 55° Blended Scotch was produced for Nordic market, especially Sweden and Finland. Bottled by Vin & Sprit, also known for Grönstedts cognac. This blend contains unknown Islay whiskies, apparently matured in sherry casks. Swedish blending of Islay A blended whisky from Islay region, blended by Swedish blender Folke […]

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Smoky Scot Islay Single Malt

Johannes Lindblom — Fri, 19 May 2023 09:58:56 +0000

Smoky Scot is a 5 year old single malt by Islay region’s Caol Ila distillery, bottled by Aceo Spirits. Since we’re talking about a young indie bottling, it makes you uncertain about the quality. But coming from reputable Islay distillery set my hopes higher than with other similar type of […]

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Macleod’s Islay Single Malt

Johannes Lindblom — Wed, 25 May 2022 11:30:16 +0000

Macleod’s Islay Single Malt Scotch is a product by independent bottler Ian Macleod Distillers. They’re probably most famous for Smokehead brand which also contains unknown Islay whiskies. I owned a bottle of Smokehead 18 year old single malt, which was fairly good. My expectations for this one weren’t high, though. […]

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Williamson 6 year old by That Boutique-y Whisky Company

Johannes Lindblom — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 08:31:43 +0000

Review of Williamson 6 year old single malt by That Boutique-y Whisky Company. That Boutique-y Whisky Company is an independent bottler. Their range includes limited edition single malts, single grains and bourbons from various renowned distilleries. They also produce blended malts and blends. That Boutique-y Whisky Company (TBWC) is owned by […]

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Braeval 20YO Cask Strength by Hart Brothers

Johannes Lindblom — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 11:14:37 +0000

This Braeval 20 year old cask strength single malt comes from the independent bottler Hart Brothers. I was fortunate enough to have a sample at Turku Beer and Whisky Festival. Needless to say, this whisky is something you’d definitely have to have full bottle in your cabinet. Distilled at Braeval […]

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Mossburn Blair Athol 10YO 2007 Cask Strength

Johannes Lindblom — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 11:08:08 +0000

This 10 year old Blair Athol single malt comes from the independent bottler Mossburn’s cask strength collection. This small batch whisky was distilled in 2007 and bottled 30th of November 2017. The bottler is called Mossburn – Distillers & Blenders (MBD). They have Vintage Casks collections from various distilleries, this […]

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Glenburgie 10 year old by Gordon and MacPhail

Johannes Lindblom — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 19:16:47 +0000

WhiskyRant conclusions Tasting notes Glenburgie is also known as Glenburgie-Glenlivet, Glen Burgie or Glenburry. The distillery is located near Alves, Moray in Speyside region. Their whisky is mostly used for blends. Ballantine’s and Old Smuggler are famous blends with Glenburgie malt whisky in them. When the distillery was acquired in […]

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Benrinnes 1997 Signatory 18 year old review

Johannes Lindblom — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 12:03:16 +0000

Benrinnes 1997 18 year old single malt whisky by independent bottler Signatory comes from a single cask like Signatory’s products tend to do. This is a malt from Speyside region, from Benrinnes distillery, but the casks are picked by Signatory company who also bottle the products. So the bottling is […]

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Compass Box The Lost Blend review

Johannes Lindblom — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 06:20:40 +0000

Compass Box The Lost Blend is a continuum to their first blended malt called Eleuthera, released in 2001. First whisky ever by Compass Box was Hedonism by the way, a blended grain whisky which I got a chance to taste in 2016. Eleuthera was a blended malt containing approximately 80% […]

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Compass Box Flaming Heart 15th Anniversary Whisky review

Johannes Lindblom — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 19:43:28 +0000

Celebrating Compass Box’s fifteenth anniversary, the 2015 edition of Flaming Heart is another fine example of top notch blending by John Glaser and his company. Glaser has been named “Innovator of the Year” four times by Whisky Magazine and “Pioneer of the Year” twice by Malt Advocate. He has stated […]

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Compass Box Hedonism Blended Grain review

Johannes Lindblom — Sat, 22 Oct 2016 19:27:21 +0000

Compass Box Hedonism was first released in the year 2000, and it was the first of its kind – a blended grain whisky. Another innovation by the tireless innovators from Compass Box. This small independent bottler has really been a pioneering facet in whisky industry, they’ve even managed to upset […]

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Compass Box Enlightenment review

Johannes Lindblom — Sun, 02 Oct 2016 09:53:16 +0000

Compass Box Enlightenment was made in the spirit of Compass Box’s Campaign for Scotch Whisky Transparency. You can read the backstory of this campaign from my Spice Tree review – long story short, production of Spice Tree had to be stopped because of Scotch Whisky Association’s ridiculous regulations (Fortunately they […]

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Compass Box Spice Tree review

Johannes Lindblom — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 19:18:39 +0000

Compass Box Spice Tree gained much reputation because of Scotch Whisky Association and its regulations. Making Compass Box Spice Tree “illegal whisky”. I’ll get to that later on but first: some basic information about this vatting of Northern Highland malt whiskies. Clynelish malt is the core of this blended malt […]

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Classic of Islay Jack Wieber 2015 review

Johannes Lindblom — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 19:12:04 +0000

Friend of mine told me about a German importer from Berlin, who has released bottlings under the name of Jack Wieber since 1998. Jack Wiebers Whisky World is a wholesale business operating in Wiener Strasse, Berlin. Owned by Lars-Göran Wiebers, the whisky shop is specialized in independent and rare bottlings. And they do release […]

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Scallywag blended malt review

Johannes Lindblom — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 21:00:25 +0000

As a big fan of Big Peat, I had to try out Scallywag by Douglas Laing as soon as it was launched. Scallywag is a vatted malt made from Speyside whiskies, such as Mortlach, Macallan and Glenrothes. Most of the whiskies in this small batch release come from Spanish Ex-Sherry […]

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The Ultimate Glenrothes 1995 17YO review

Johannes Lindblom — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 17:45:09 +0000

The Ultimate Whisky Company is an independent bottler founded in 1994 by Han and Maurice van Wees. Since then they have released over 500 malt whiskies, the list of products can be found here along with distillation and bottling dates, ages, cask types and numbers. All of The Ultimate whiskies […]

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Longmorn 12YO 1994 by Murray McDavid review

Johannes Lindblom — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:32:52 +0000

This is a whisky from the independent bottler Murray McDavid and it is part of their “turquoise series”. I had a chance to try it on our way to Teerenpeli distillery tour in Lahti, Finland. It is Longmorn 12 year old single malt from 1994 and it has been matured in a bourbon but. Finished on […]

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Elements of Islay Bn4 review

Johannes Lindblom — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 18:54:02 +0000

Elements of Islay Bn4 is the fourth batch from Bunnahabhain distillery, bottled by the independent bottler Speciality Drinks. This dark and sweet character felt like a nice addition into the Elements of Islay series, even though I only had a chance to take few sips of it on our way to Taivaanranta […]

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Smokehead Extra Black 18 year old review

Johannes Lindblom — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 17:13:00 +0000

Smokehead 18 year old single malt is a 6000 bottle limited release by Ian Macleod – a mystery dram from Islay. There’s also a non age statement whisky under the Smokehead brand, launched in 2006. It is much cheaper and presumably, better available than this 18YO Extra Black. The name, […]

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