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This Port Charlotte was presented by Allan Logan at the Spirits in the Sky festival during his Bruichladdich Masterclass. It is Heavily Peated (40ppm) and distilled from 100% Scottish barley. It did not…

Glenglassaugh Evolution is a cask strength, first fill bourbon cask matured dram. 2nd release (following Revival) by the recently re-opened Glenglassaugh Distillery. We started our Speyside blind tasting…

Balvenie Single Barrel 15 year old was part of our Speyside blind tasting with batch number 8590. This dram started quite horribly but managed to get better while resting in my nosing glass.At first, the…

I picked up some whiskies, over this last year, off an auction house, in Scotland. I'd wanted to purchase an auction house whisky for a while and when I managed to pick up a 30 year old cask strength…

Sweet, herbal, honey, traces of vanilla, traces of oak, traces of spice. At mid-palate, flavors start to dissipate rather quickly. Not much else. Little alcohol burn. Here in Miami Florida, I picked up…

Smokehead 18 year old was like a smoke sauna in the middle of a swamp somewhere northerly. Immediately I smelled and felt burnt wood that quickly faded away and gave me strong peat. Wet forest peat by…

First of all, Van Winkle is not a distiller from what I understand. Van Winkle obtains its stock from distilleries but does not make its own any longer. Correct me if I'm wrong. I could be wrong, since…

I was pretty hard on PC6 a few months ago, and it has improved noticeably in the bottle with time and air. Here is my new amended sentiments:Nose: Sea salt, musty books, autumn leaves, sugar in the raw…

I was hard on a bottle of Amrut Fusion that I bought last month before Christmas. It's better now and I'm the first to admit that. Air has helped.Nose: a bit weak still, but not bad. rum raisins, brown…

APPEARANCE: Gorgeous, light yellow chartreuse. Lively and translucent. A pleasure to contemplate.BODY: Medium bodied. Oily.NOSE: Peaty, light smoke, hints of cream and honey. Not floral. Strong young…