Review #100: Highland Park 30
We ended up doing the HP 30 in a very fancy flight: Bruichladdich 25, Bruichladdich 1990 26 year, and Highland Park 30 rounding it out.
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Rusty Nail
The Rusty Nail's signature ingredient is Drambuie, a scotch based liquor, sweetened with heather honey, and infused with herbs and spices.
Review #98: Bruichladdich 1990/25 Travel
As I mentioned in our Kavalan Manzanilla sherry cask review, my overwhelming cheapness resulted in San Francisco to Tokyo tickets that had us flying over Japan 3 hours to Taipei, Taiwan for a layover before returning the 3 hours …
Dalmore #97: Dalmore 18
The final dram of our Dalmore flight at OneUp in San Francisco (Dalmore 12 review at 7/10 here and Dalmore 15 of 5.5/10 score here) was the Dalmore 18. I had been toying with the idea of buying …
Review #96: Dalmore 15
As mentioned in our Dalmore 12 review, the reddit community does not like Dalmore much. There are some good points: they’re a bit watery (and a bit pricey). But the broader market likes Dalmore; some because of the shiny …
Review #95: Highland Park 2005 Octave
Vancouver is fun to visit, but there is a 90% chance it will rain at some point and then one needs an indoors activity contingency plan. For us, this typically involves liquor stores. In particular, I was very keen on …
Review #94: Dalmore 12
The /r/scotch community kind of has a thing going against Dalmore. I agree with a lot of the qualms. For one, it's relatively pricey. The biggest gripe seems to be because it is typically bottled at 40% and chill filtered, which reduces a lot of the strength that whisky aficionados enjoy. "Watery palate" is a good descriptor.
Review #83: Eades Anticipation Double Malt Highland
The contrarian in me truly wanted to hate this whisky. The label pronounces “handcrafted for the American Connoisseur”. This ruffled me a bit, because secretly I hope to a bit more than what a bunch of scotsmen define as the …
Review #79: Dalmore King Alexander III
Dalmore King Alexander 3 is aged in 6 different types of barrels (this is getting a little silly), including bourbon, Marsala, Madeira, Cab, oloroso and Port
Review #78: BenRiach 21 Temporis Peated
BenRiach, besides being a fun name to say, turns out some underrated excellent whiskies. They’re known mostly for their experimental approach to cask types. Most of their line-up has focused on unpeated offerings.
Our local Glendronach/BenRiach representative (Rory Glasgow) turned …