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Well-aged whisky with Balblair, Old Pulteney and AnCnoc

Posted on 30 December 2015 by Billy

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For our final tasting of 2015, we welcomed Inver House Distillers to showcase some of their whiskies, focusing on an aspect of whisky that most companies are not talking about much these days: long ageing….

anCnoc 18 Year Old and 1975 – Modern Tradition

Posted on 3 June 2015 by Billy

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Knockdhu is a strangely anachronistic distillery. Founded in 1894, at the time it was a thoroughly modern facility, with a steam engine, railway sidings, and all mod cons. However, not much has changed since then,…

Peaty AnCnoc – Rutter and Flaughter

Posted on 23 April 2014 by Billy

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Peat smoke. To many it’s the key flavour in whiskies and for others it’s the reason they don’t drink whisky. While only relatively few whiskies are actually noticeably peaty, it’s become one of the best-known…

A trip to Knockdhu

Posted on 24 August 2011 by Billy

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[This is Part 4 of Billy’s trip around the Inver House distilleries. If you haven’t already, you should check out his scribblings from Balblair, Pulteney and Speyburn] After leaving Speyburn we hacked back over to…

Billy on No more peaty whisky from Islay:
This post is the gift that keeps on giving :)
Posted on: 1 April 2021
Mike Bloxham on No more peaty whisky from Islay:
Had me suckered in to the very last drop! I was practically running out to several cases of the peatiest Islay I could get my hands on!
Posted on: 1 April 2021
Billy on New Japanese Whisky Labelling Standards:
And they will both be categorised as Japanese whisky on our website – we are just waiting for our tech team to finish changing the categorisation.
Posted on: 18 February 2021