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My whisky reviews (67)

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  Hellyers Road Distillery Slightly Peated - Serious drinkers dram

  By jdcook on 31st Aug 20102010-08-31T11:50:00

  This is the third of the three drams my wife and newborn daughter purchased for my first fathers day. I've slowly worked my way through the Glengoyne and then this dram this evening, writing notes as I… read more

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  Rating:

  8.5 / 10
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  Glengoyne 10 Year old - Thinking persons drinking malt

  By jdcook on 31st Aug 20102010-08-31T08:19:00

  This is the second of the three drams my wife and newborn daughter purchased for my first fathers day. The selling point of Glengoyne is that all their barley is malted using air from a natural fire, not… read more

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  Rating:

  8.5 / 10
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  Macallan 10 Year old Sherry Oak - Beautiful dram for a beautiful girl

  By jdcook on 24th Aug 20102010-08-24T13:37:00

  My wife and I have been parents of our little girl Zoe for a grand total of 6 days now, and I've been trying to decide on a dram to toast her birth. So when I got a newsletter from my usual retailer, and… read more

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  Rating:

  9.0 / 10
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  Ardbeg Blasda - Intriguing Session Whisky

  By jdcook on 15th Aug 20102010-08-15T13:59:00

  A friend of mine recently bought a bottle of this and was kind enough to let me have a dram. The wording around the traps on this bottle has been a little mixed. Even those who quite like it tend to say… read more

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  Rating:

  8.0 / 10
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  Glenfiddich 15 Year old - A little heart-warmer...

  By jdcook on 16th Jul 20102010-07-16T12:41:00

  This was a slightly belated (but much welcomed) birthday gift from my Sister-in-Law. I get the feeling there was supposed to be some conniving going on behind my back between my wife and her sister as… read more

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  Comments (2)

  Rating:

  8.5 / 10