There are plenty of things to avoid at an airport. My number one obstacle, of course, is people, along with their screaming offspring. And yet, there are treasures (pleasures?) to find at a nearby duty-free shop, which could make it all worthwhile. Or at least for a moment or two. You see, the duty-free shops […]
I’ve been on some kind of a 21-year-old Speyside sherried kick lately. And although I’m mostly a self-proclaimed peat-head, since I’m enjoying this particular style of Scotch, let’s just keep going! But first, let’s review the last week of tastings. First, I compared the Glengoyne 21-year-old distillery bottling against a Douglas Laing single cask (same […]
I admit, I am more than a bit impressed with the Glengoyne distillery, particularly its 21-year-old bottling from the core range, which I have compared against a same-aged single cask pour from an independent bottler Douglas Laing, in the last round. In that writeup, I also dropped a “sherry-bomb” reference, so that got me thinking […]
To get some confusion out of the way, I want to clarify the title of this write-up. This is a side-by-side comparison of Glengoyne‘s 21-year-old distillery bottling next to Glengoyne’s 21-year-old single cask independent bottling by Douglas Laing from their Old Particular range. The latter is a single cask from 1997 distillation (REF – DL12817). […]
All this talk of Oloroso made me want to go out and buy a bottle. And so I did. I got myself a La Bota no°94 “Más allá del NO” from Equipo Navazos which was bottled from a single butt of a very old Oloroso sourced from Eduardo Ojeda in Jerez. This is an exceptional […]
Two Drams A Day 