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Dalmore The Trio lends its name from the fact that three different types of casks were used to finish this single malt, namely ex-bourbon, tawny port and Matusalem sherry. It was released to the trave…

Nothing is as nice as to fill your own bottle after a distillery visit. And at Clynelish we could taste it in advance, thanks to our lovely tour guide Valerie. The malt was excellent, so it took exactly…

On Tuesday, September 20, 2022, Manny, Dearly Beloved and I were visiting Clynelish. For me, this had to be the highlight of the trip. And fortunately it was. Although the first half hour of the tour had…

Les Grand Alambics is a whisky shop in Chambéry, France (about 40km north of Grenoble and halfway between Lyon and the Swiss border). With the regularity of the clock they bottle something exclusively…

My favorite vintage for Clynelish is without a doubt 1997, but this is close enough. Bottled in that beautiful but clumsy decanter by Signatory in 2016, we are talking about a malt that matured for 20…

Ah, look, a somewhat older bottling of The Nectar, from the series where they made anagrams of or puns on the name of the distillery. This is their Shiny Cell, a Clynelish from 1995, bottled in 2008. I…

Although it is not explicitly mentioned on the label, the drawing of the distillery (the old Brora) is enough to realize that we are talking about a Clynelish here. It concerns a distillate from 2010…

Our good friends at Liquid Art have found another single cask that they considered bottle-worthy. And it must be, for this is a Linkwood from 2008 that was allowed to spend it’s hibernation on a bourbon…

Berry Brothers & Rudd is of course very well known, so no intro needed. For years, the royal supplier with headquarters in London, they of course also bottle whisky themselves. This young Linkwood was…

Two years ago, Signatory Vintage bottled this young Linkwood in the so-called Small Batch series for the German Kirsch Import. It is a vatting of three barrels that together yielded just under 1,500…