Ledaig 14 2005 Single Malts of Scotland

What was the occasion: Still at a whisky tasting. We’re through “peat with sherry but not intense” and we’re onto “heavy peated”. Fun thing: Since it’s a BYOW tasting, no one at the tasting has had each whisky. As such we have to collaborate to figure out the order, all while grossly sober. I’m suffering for […]

Highland Park 30 1989 The Kinship 2020 Hunter Laing

What was the occasion: A store that I know of had a tasting for the Kinship Collection 2020, and between my life being chaotic as hell, I haven’t gotten to them. So every so often, when I get a chance, I pick out one of them and review them. And it’s been taking awhile. What whisky […]

Highland Park Magnus

Thanks to my buddy Foster for pouring me this dram… I think. A few centuries ago, one Magnus Eunson, a butcher and church officer, decided he would start running an illicit still and become a bootlegger. He worked out of High Park in Kirkwall, Orkney. This would eventually all become Highland Park. Thus in order […]

Arran 21 1997 Limited Edition The Green Welly Stop Exclusive

Arran. We recently discussed my need to feel “not old” by having more of it, and then being an old man whisky drinker as I throw canes at children on my whisky lawn because I don’t like it as much as them. Caught up? Short version: I’m old. Actually I just don’t love Orange notes […]

Tobermory 23 1994 Sansibar The Clans Label

Thanks to throzen for pouring me a dram of this. If you look through my reviews and compare the amount of Ledaig to Tobermory, you should probably find a new hobby because that won’t take long: 42 Ledaig versus 12 Tobermory. I may enjoy the odd subtle whisky, and even the even subtle whisky, but I prefer […]

Arran 9 2012 North Star Spirits [Mystery]

Thanks to /u/devoz for sharing a sample of this dram. You giant pile of poop who I’m glad to call a friend. I try my best to avoid situations that make me feel out of touch and old. Personally I feel like Generation Z is amazing and alright. I try my best to look up new music […]

Ledaig 19 2001 The Whisky Agency Heads & Tails, Canada

Thanks to /u/devoz for the sample poured as part of the “end of year” tasting we had. It’s in quotes as we didn’t mean the end of the lunar year, which we were also late for, thus I haven’t properly explained the quotes. To the next subject! As it’s our “special” tasting for the year, and we’re […]

Talisker 8 2021 Special Release

My recent picks of whisky have dove into ideas of what I know about whisky, where we might be now, where we have been, and what changes may have happened. Since my life seems to be an exercise in slowly reacting to something external and seeing how my particular set of genes handles it, one […]

Ledaig 12 2008 Amarone Cask Finish

Another Ledaig? Sure, another Ledaig. For a distillery I consistently mention as being too expensive and that I have to get over because it’s hard to find, I certainly have been reviewing it a bunch, eh? I’m a peat head, what can I say. So I’m a hypocrite, we’ve cemented that, however with whisky bars […]

Ledaig 16 2005 Single Malts of Scotland

Thanks to /u/devoz for pouring me this dram. Last whisky of the tasting. Not going to lie: This was an exciting, terrible idea. If I didn’t have the breaks these notes would be “whisky” repeated about 12 times. I even was worried about some of them, taking extra time. Don’t be like me: Stop at 5 for […]