Naturally, I've hired the best lawyers in New York and we are about to sue them in court, but In a pretty Cosmo-Kramer kind of move, I now say send me a miniature of Talisker 10 years old every year for life, and we'll be square. Or you'll face the consequences of your most...
Laphroaig 10 yo 'Original Cask Strength Batch 011' (58.6%, OB, 2019) I must confess we haven't been following the 10 C/S for years, but this green stripe reminds me of those glorious times when you could find its ancestors in travel retail, which ancestors used to just blow us away...
Please help me to remember that I need to try a recent batch of the regular 10 before I forget… But that won’t happen today, I’m afraid (or not)… Laphroaig 19 yo 1996/2016 (53.3%, Douglas Laing, Old Particular, Taiwan, refill hogshead, cask #DL10720) Colour: dark amber. Nose...
Now if you would excuse me, I’ll call you back once I’m rich and famous, which will happen in the very near future I am led to understand, since I’ve already got Nicola Sturgeon’s Sub-Sub-Sub-Secretary Of Scottish Rural Entrepreneurship on the phone for ten seconds last night.”...
Or is it me? Say lime juice, say green chartreuse and say tar liqueur. It’s not the cleanest old one ever, but it is different. And very excellent, as dirtiness is often an asset. With water: gets very salty, this is almost seawater. Fun stuff. Finish: lemon juice and seawater ...
Nose: I have to confess we’re nowhere near the stunning 1965, this is much more on ginger tonic and lemonade, which is extremely bizarre. Funny notes of wild herbs, moss, fern, then unusual flowers (unusual in whisky, that is) such as… maybe lilies? Also green oranges and rubbed ...
Yes, it’s near Balmoral. Royal Lochnagar 10 yo 2002/2012 (46%, Milroy's, bourbon hogshead, cask #640, 387 bottles) Colour: white wine. Nose: it’s one of these very naked and pretty immature young ‘Speysiders’ (we’re frankly south of Speyside here, that is to say not in ...