The Edinburgh Whisky Blog Book Club
“Jason! Move away frae there with your book. Your fireside tartan isnae gonna get any better if ye’ lie there like that!” Those words, bellowed from the hallway, was one of the sentences that defined...
View ArticleKilchoman 2009 Vintage & Red Wine Cask
Kilchoman have released two new whiskies in the past couple of months, both peated to 50ppm; one is their oldest whisky to date, and one has spent its entire life in ex-red wine casks. A rather...
View ArticleChristmas Competition with Shackleton Whisky!
Oh how we love to bask in the spotlight of altruism. We simply can’t help it sometimes. The season of goodwill is upon us and the Christmas spirits are flowing through us; mainly whisky with the odd...
View ArticleGlendronach Batch 16 – a trio of drams
Every few months since mid-2009, Glendronach have released a new batch of single cask bottlings. Each batch is more hotly anticipated than the last, given the distillery’s now-rock solid reputation for...
View ArticleBenriach Temporis 21yo
A few weeks ago I was invited to a very intimate gathering of whisky folks at The Scotch Malt Whisky Society Vaults in Leith, to be one of the first to sample Benriach’s new expression, Temporis 21yo....
View ArticleSingleton Malt Master’s Selection
You’ll have noticed we’re not the best at time keeping here at EWB. Meeting us for a pint at 7pm? We’ll be there at half past. Tasting starts at 8pm sharp? We’ll nonchalantly rock up at 8:05pm. Whisky...
View ArticleCrabbie’s Distillery & 8yo Single Malt
It seems as though there’s a bit of a race happening in Edinburgh at the moment as to who can be the first open a malt whisky distillery in the capital. The Holyrood Park Distillery project has been...
View ArticleAnCnoc’s 125th Anniversary: 16yo Cask Strength & Peat
This year marks 125 years since the Knockdhu distillery was established, nestled in the Black Hills in the Eastern Highlands. Since its inception in 1894, not too much has changed at the distillery –...
View ArticleArdbeg Traigh Bhan 19yo
Some very exciting news came out of Ardbeg a couple of weeks ago when they announced that, for the first time in 20 years, a new age statement expression will be joining the distillery’s core range....
View ArticleKininvie Works: a malt, a grain, and a blend.
Almost three years ago, I was fortunate enough to visit the elusive Kininvie distillery in Speyside. Set up in 1990 to take some pressure off the stocks at Balvenie, and provide liquid for Grants...
View ArticleIt’s Octomore, Jim, but not as we know it
I might just be getting old and becoming more sensitive to the cold, but the weather has taken a definite turn for the worse in Edinburgh. Early mornings now come with a dusting of light frost, my ‘big...
View ArticleEast London Liquor Company New Releases
Following on from the release of their inaugural London Rye Whisky which launched last November, the East London Liquor Company have now launched three brand new products. These three whiskies include...
View ArticleThe Amber Light – Ben Nevis 1996
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last few months, you’ll know that Dave Broom has released a fantastic documentary, The Amber Light, which looks at the culture surrounding Scotch whisky,...
View ArticleTamnavulin 2000 Vintage
A 2000 vintage from Tamnavulin? But wasn’t it closed between 1995 and 2007? You are indeed correct, well-learned reader. The distillery was mothballed for the vast majority of that period, however the...
View ArticleBunnahabhain Spiorad An Dòchais 30yo
A couple of weeks ago I participated in what seemed like a never ending train of virtual Feis Ile tastings (not complaining one bit) with each distillery taking their festival open day online....
View ArticleThe Single Cask: Heaven Hill, Tormore & Tobermory
I imagine, well-learned readers, that you’ll have heard of The Single Cask, an independent bottler which specialises in releasing… err… single cask whiskies. The company was founded by Ben Curtis, who...
View ArticleWhat was the last great core range whisky?
It’s official* – there’s more whisky than ever. Or certainly, it would appear that we’re living in a golden age of back bars that are bursting at the seams, laden with a literal bounty of liquid amber....
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