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This Glenlivet is of a whole other caliber. While also from a first fill sherry cask, this was a butt that yielded almost 700 bottles at drinking strength and matured for almost two decades. Rather pale…

Quite a few Glenlivet 2007 on first fill sherry have been bottled recently, all of them from the warehouses of Signatory. Van Wees bottled a few, including sisters casks #900148 and #900149 at cask…

I have only just tried cask #900136 from the same bottler and look here: two more bottles arrived on my desk: sister casks #900148 and #900149. These are at cask strength, though. Let’s put them head-to…

Ah, Glenlivet on a sherry cask. I’ve had quite a few and often they are heavenly. This is a bottling from last year, but the Dutch company Van Wees, albeit cut to drinking strength.Sweet nose on vanilla…

Glenlivet released two 13 year old versions for Taiwan. The Oloroso Sherry Cask at 40% and the same at cask strength. I will try the one at drinking strength, courtesy of my buddy tom. Will you look at…

A Glentauchers of only 4 years old? Matured on a sherry cask and bottled at 66.6% ABV. That sound devlish and I am not only referring to the alcohol percentage.As was to be expected, this is very spirity…

Rolf Kaspar GmbH is a liquor store in Essen and Düsseldorf, Germany. They select and bottle single casks under their own label ‘Black Corbie’ and this is one of them: a young Glentauchers on sherry cask…

I was fairly certain this came from the same cask as the one I just tried. Distilled and bottled at the same time, by the same bottler, with no mention of cask number or number of bottles. I was under…

Glentauchers is a lesser known Speysider – founded in 1897 – that produces primarily for the blenders. Their biggest customers are Black & White, Ballantine’s, Teachers and Chivas Regal. Official rele…

This is an older release of Glen Keith from the Old Malt Cask series, when it still belonged to Douglas Laing (before the demerger, now it belongs to his brother’s company Hunter Laing & Co). It was…