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Nose is sea air, iodine and butterscotch. Hot, and oily flavours. Rubber. Drop of water and it turns minty. Shoe peppermints. Wishes it was licorice. Simple flavours, soft smoke and then some heat to…

Ardmore can be found in the Highlands. There was once an Ardmore Distillery on Islay, truly. Maybe that explains why the whisky is so peaty? That you can easily confuse it with an Islay whisky? I am only…

After putting the labels on our very own Save Lars Whisky, we were offered a few things in the shop. Apart from a great Talisker 24 Year Old Talimburg for the Whisky Fair and an out of this world Glen…

Did you know that Ardmore is still an important component of the popular Teachers blend? But it is quite nice as single malt as well. This 17 Year Old from 1992 was bottled by Ian MacLeod Distillers…

A few years ago, Signatory bottled this 20 Year Old Ardmore with a label that sported Wine Treated Barrel. This merely means that an old cask was revitalized and infused with sherry to impregnate the oak…

My first scotch grain whisky. Since I've never been much of a blend kind of guy, I thought I was about to discover the reason behind my usual dislike for blends. But my oh my was I in for a surprise!The…

So tonight I was out as a film industry conference (discussing the state of Canadian feature films being sold to our nation's broadcasters - or lack thereof), then out for dinner with a film producer …

It's Christmas time and that means all the morons come out to play if you work in retail. Bosses scream that a million things need to be done last week, even if the problem has just arisen, customers…

SO I've been looking forward to cracking this bottle open for quite a while. Its been sitting on my shelf for four months glaring at me... willing me to open it and give it a try. Unfortunately I had…

Dalmore Distillery was founded in 1839 by Alexander Matheson, who then sold it to the the Mackenzie Bros. in 1891. They were very actively involved, making their family motto the Dalmore's ("I shine, not…