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"You can't stand on one leg," they must have thought at The Nectar. In addition to the Teeling on a rum cask, Belgian importer The Nectar also selected this cask at Teeling at the beginning of 2021 to…

The Nectar, one of Belgium's major importers, recently celebrated its 15th anniversary. In that context, quite a few casks were bottled to celebrate that. This is one of them, a 16-year-old Teeling on…

For their sixth anniversary (because it was founded in 2015), Teeling launched a so-called Double Cask in 2021. Only 600 bottles were prepared, imagine that. The Double Cask refers to the fact that it…

If I'm not mistaken, I was able to taste it in preview at the Spirits in the Sky whisky festival in Brussels last November. Chris Hayes then treated us to a dram of an umarked bottle (because the whiskey…

Grand Cru Edition? Is that a new series from Teeling? This is certainly the first release in the Small Batch Series to be labeled 'grand cru' and that may have everything to do with the fact that this…

The most recent release in Teeling's popular Renaissance series – each time their 18-year-old malt finished in a different type of cask – dates from August 2021. This time the malt got a finish on bar…

Teeling's first Renaissance was an 18-year-old finished in Madeira and I found it to be nothing short of brilliant. The second on Australian Shiraz Casks was absolutely not inferior. The expectations for…

The third and for the time being last edition in the so-called Sommelier Selection is a Teeling that got a finish on Amarone barrels. I'm curious about that now. Amarone is an Italian wine that takes its…

Aha! The Sommelier Selection. I already tasted the Margaux Wine release, but Teeling launched this Sauternes Wine Cask version in 2021. I confess, I was looking forward to that. The whiskey consists of…

For St. Patrick's Day – the national holiday in Ireland – Teeling launched a distillery exclusive last year that finished on Irish oak after a regular maturation in bourbon casks. This whiskey is a…