At this time of year choosing the right Whisky as a gift for a friend and loved one can be a trifling head strain without having first tried the Whisky. Normally you want to match the bottle to the gift receiver’s taste and you rely on independent reviews, tasting notes, past experience and more often…
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The Lady of the Glen November release will come from the unique Speyside distillery of Miltonduff The historic distillery has roots dating back to 1236 and the time of the Pluscarden Abbey although it was officially founded in 1824 by Robert Bain and Andrew Peary. The use of the term ‘official’ is important because the…
Wooden casks are interesting and they are an integral part of the creation of beautiful Whisky. With some arguing that 60% of the overall taste of the Whisky comes from the cask. Here are ten interesting things about wooden casks. 1. Rome stole the idea of casks from Celts In the third and second centuries BC…
I love a good Whisky festival and I’ve been fortunate to go to Whisky festivals in Germany and the UK which were both very different types of exhibitions. You can read about my experience at the Russelsheim in Germany, but specifically one of the main differences is that in Germany you pay per dram – no…
Over the past three years Lady of the Glen has grown and matured as an Independent bottler and with that the capacity to buy casks for maturation and to buy casks for bottling has increased. Since inception the acquisition of high quality casks has been the priority and this has been done through a variety…
This week Lady of the Glen was fortunate to feature in the first issue of the Whisky industry’s newest magazine, Cask and Still. Under the Rare Find section, our independent bottling is given a lovely mention about our up and coming activities. You can download and read the full magazine now to learn about six new exciting distilleries…
Sometimes there is no better feeling than getting a good review but when we received the latest review from @ChorltonWhisky we had no idea what to think especially after the interesting twitter chat… One thing is for sure the photography is great and the tasting notes are very expressive too. “very badly behaved whisky. It’s also enormous…
Jolly Topper tastings Uncanny, a mixture of familiar and unfamiliar that is experienced as being peculiar. That was my interpretation of Jolly Topper conducting a vertical tasting on the obscure Clyneilsh Distillery as I am coincidently releasing a 17 year old cask from the distillery very, very soon. I had to go to this tasting… Mark Davidson,…
Preview of Hannah Whisky Merchants ltd Anniversary Release About the distillery Re-opened in 2013 after being mothballed in 1999 this incredibly rare distillery was fairly recently founded in 1957. Located within Keith and sitting on the banks of the River Isla within the Speyside Whisky region, this distillery was originally a Meal Mill hence its…
Deanston front doors Visiting Deanston distillery was well overdue for me, considering how close Deanston is to Stirling and I went to Stirling University for four years there was really no excuse. So three weeks ago I drove up to Doune to visit and I was initially surprised by how urban the Deanston buildings looked in…
It’s great when Lady of the Glen is warmly received but when the review forms part of larger piece about history and processes in the Whisky industry it’s even better as the history of Whisky is, in my opinion, just as fascinating as the spirit itself! Independent bottlers seem to have an imaginary code of…
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