Thanks to /u/devoz for sharing a sample with me. If you haven’t read about the marking issue here, please go to this link and read up. They do an amazing job of writing. So there you have it. If you didn’t click the link above, I’ll say it quickly: There’re two different wineries in France with a name Lafitte. One is Lafite and one is Lafitte. I’m thinking of… Continue reading Glengoyne 21 1996 Cadenhead’s Small Batch
Thanks to /u/Davyj0ne5 for this dram. I recently figured out I had a couple Glengoyne samples around. So I finally got around to trying Glengoyne 12 for the last review. Skipping over the other middle child at fifteen years, we have Glengoyne 18. How has it changed, save for six more years? Well, I’m glad I asked myself just now. I’m great. Instead of using ex-bourbon casks, like… Continue reading Glengoyne 18
Thanks to /u/Davyj0ne5 for this dram So here’s an issue. Each year, there are standard whiskies that come out. And the same ones come out time and time, which makes sense. And then independent releases changeup. So as a whisky reviewer you end up starting with the standard, OB releases. Which is fine. It’s a good place to start. It’s easier to do. It’s less expensive. And… Continue reading Glengoyne 12
Thanks to /u/twiddleDD for this sample. Here we are. The finale of my series that I called “Scotch Malts, Wife’s Selection”, in which my wife went through my backlog of SMWS (Scotch Malt Whisky Society) samples that I hadn’t reviewed yet, poured them blind, and then I reviewed them blind. It’s in past tense because this is the last one, you see. Oh, and because I kinda… Continue reading Glengoyne SMWS 123.10 “Sweet treats on deck”
If you enter into our apartment, you first notice that we have lots of bookshelves. My wife’s still have room on them, and my smaller ones are packed to the brim. As you venture into the main living room, you’ll notice the shelves that have the whisky. Bulging out, the samples take up a few rows, the glasses a few more, and the bottles. On… Continue reading Glengoyne 25
Glengoyne is the one distillery in the Highlands that doesn’t let me down. It doesn’t run me around. And dessert me. I’m going to have a tough time giving it up, to say the least. Not that I need to. I just somehow had to write a start and I’m on the last SMWS I’m going to review for a bit. I say a bit… Continue reading Glengoyne SMWS 123.8 “In the Spanish mountains”
Friends of mine have different tastes in whisky. One is the person who gave me the plan to use the Munsell Colour chart. She doesn’t like Speyside whiskies, and we recently determined it was due to the sheer amount of oak in them. The other is my oldest friend and the man who was my best man. He likes alcohol of all types, and we… Continue reading Glengoyne 21
So you review and review and review, right? Basically it’s what you do beyond class, trips, work, sex, and whatever is on TV. And you end up thinking you’re pretty hot shit. Then you walk into a bar that you haven’t been in for 2 years (as it’s in the UK and you live in Canada, so the commutes a bitch) and see not 1,… Continue reading Glengoyne 1998 (Malts of Scotland #1131)
Nearing the end of our trip, and wanted to try something different. We were in Birmingham, and the hidden away Neo-Tudor building seemed to be calling us from the ultra modernistic mall (where I stupidly passed up buying Kilchoman 100% Islay 2nd release).. The bar itself was really nice, and looked old, especially for us New Worlders. The whisky selection was a little random, at… Continue reading Glengoyne 10
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