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Five missing samples: Ben Wyvis, Glen Flagler, Inverleven, Kininvie, Kinclaith

Lot No. 40 (43%, 2012 Edition) – 75/100

Whisky bar: Oishii Hasselt (Belgium)

Best whiskies of 2012

Redistilled Talisker 10 yo (45,8%, Master of Malt 2012, experiment)
Redistilled Glenfarclas Movember 2011 (53%, Master of Malt 2012, experiment)
Redistilled Glenmorangie Nectar D’Or (46%, Master of Malt 2012, experiment)

Grant’s Stand Fast – 1912 blend remake

Whisky sale: selling around 80 bottles from my collection

Mo Òr is a whisky collection of single casks bottlings released by The Whisky Talker

La Maison du Whisky – update

In case you haven’t got a ticket yet for the upcoming Whisky Festival in Gent this weekend, just send an e-mail to info {at} whiskynotes.be. Be sure to include your postal address. Since it’s 2012, the 12th person who responds will get the ticket. I won’t be able to go there myself, so I will [...]

Happy 2012

Cutty Sark: The making of a whisky brand – book review

Malt Whisky Yearbook 2012 (ed. Ingvar Ronde)

I’m hosting the September edition of the Whisky Round Table. Here’s what I asked my fellow Knights: If you could reopen a mothballed or demolished distillery, which one would it be and why?  

Holiday season

Ten days of accessible anti-crisis whisky (50 euros or less)

A series of Japanese whisky reviews. There’s a Hakushu and Yamazaki bottled for Whisky-Live Japan, a Karuizawa 1991, several Nikka bottlings, the highly praised Yamazaki 18yo, a Mizunara wood finish etc.

Whisky Round Table – April 2011

The Spirit of Unity is a special blend released to support Japan. Seven Scotch whisky distilleries are donating a cask of its single malt that will be expertly blended to create a limited edition whisky.

Balvenie Whisky Academy

Head over to Whisky4everyone (by Matt & Karen) for this month’s Whisky Round Table. The twelve of us are answering this question: What is your whisky ‘dirty little secret’?  That’s the whisky that you always enjoy but would never let your ‘whisky connoisseur’ friends know that you do (apart from us!).  It is the big [...]

Jefferson’s Reserve (45,1%, OB 2010) – 80/100

Happy new year 2011

Whisky Round Table – December 2010

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Lindores Whisky Fest 2010

Duchy Royal Deeside (0,0%, OB 2010, still water)

Scotch Whisky Aroma Nosing Kit – review

Win free tickets for the Whisky Festival Gent (6-7 February 2010) or a sample of this year’s festival bottling (a peated Connemara)

2010 – A new whisky year, with an overview of the 2009 highlights

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  • WhiskyNotes: Thanks for your reply Selim. IMHO you don't pour a 1977 whisky into a Sauternes cask unless something was wrong with it already. So I'm not surprised
  • S.: Hello Ruben, I am writing to you concerning the point you made on this post about batch 9 of Benriach Single Casks not being a big hit and I just wan
  • Degustazione “Whisky dal Sol Levante” | whiskyfacile: [...] che è un blended giapponese! La mia valutazione è di 83/100, e Ruben ad esempio la pensa così. Ottimo modo di iniziare questo percorso nel mo

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  • Bowmore 1996 (TWA Faces)
  • Braeval 1994 (Liquid Library)
  • Laphroaig 2000 (Perfect Dram)
  • Glen Moray 1995 (Carn Mor)
  • Longrow Rundlets & Kinderkins
  • GlenDronach Cask Strength (batch 2)
  • Glenfarclas Chairman's reserve 175
  • Balvenie Tun 1858 (batch 1)

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