Whitlaw 5 yo 2014-2020 (60.1%, SV)
Glencadam 9 yo 2011-2020 (46%, SV)
Caol Ila 8 yo 2011-2020 (46%, SV)
Deanston 13 yo 2007-2020 (46%, SV)
Ledaig 9 yo 2011-2020 (60.2%, SV)
Glen Elgin 13 yo 2007-2020 (55.4%, SV)
Edradour 10 yo 2010-2020 (56.9%, SV)
Edradour 10 yo 2010-2020 (46%, SV)
Ballechin 10 yo 2010-2020 (58.9%, SV)
Bunnahabhain 5 yo 2014-2020 (59.2%, Daily Drams)
Glen Elgin 12 yo 2008-2020 (46%, Daily Drams)
Royal Brackla 11 yo 2009-2020 (Daily Drams)
Cragganmore 20 yo 1999-2020 (55.8%, OB, 2020)

As you may know the Massen 2020 festival still takes place but the usual tasting is of course cancelled. I managed to get my hands on some samples from different bottlings that should have been present at this event.

Ben Nevis 21 yo 1996-2018 (55.5%, OB for LMDW)
Ben Nevis 23 yo 1996-2019 (52.2%, Thompson Bros.)
Ben Nevis 19 yo 1996-2015 (50.1%, Whisky-Fässle)

Everyone hears about some new or old Ben Nevis 1996, that millésime seems to be really good and the number of cask nearly infinite! So I will grab some of those fantastic BN’s and see what happen!

Clynelish 22 yo 1995-2018 (56.7%, Daily Dram)
Benrinnes 21 yo 1997-2019 (56.3%, Daily Dram)

Let’s try some drams from the Belgian independent bottler « Daily Dram ». Those are in fact not chosen blindly since it reminds me of the Massen festival of 2019. The 2020 edition was cancelled for obvious reasons this year so let’s get those DD’s like back in the days, should we?

Kilkerran 15 yo 2004-2019 (51.8%, OB, Italy)
Kilkerran 15 yo 2004-2019 (51.2%, OB, Denmark)
Kilkerran 15 yo 2004-2019 (51.5%, OB, Germany)
Kilkerran 15 yo 2004-2019 (52.6%, OB, France)
Kilkerran 15 yo 2004-2019 (51.5%, OB, USA)

Here we go! Today we gonna try five more Kilkerran 15yo and try to find some good booze!

Kilkerran 15 yo 2004-2019 (53.1%, OB, UK)
Kilkerran 15 yo 2004-2019 (53.5%, OB, Austria)
Kilkerran 15 yo 2004-2019 (53.2%, OB, Distillery)
Kilkerran 15 yo 2004-2019 (51.1%, OB, Taiwan)
Kilkerran 15 yo 2004-2019 (51.6%, OB, Holland)
Kilkerran 15 yo 2004-2019 (52.1%, OB, Belgium)

For their 15th anniversary, the Glengyle distillery realeased a bunch of 15yo Kilkerran bottlings. There are lot of cask type and every bottlings are country-specific. Let’s try most of them!

William Larue Weller 12 yo 2006-2018 (62.85, OB)
George T. Stagg 15 yo 2003-2018 (62.45, OB)
Two Worlds « La Victoire » – batch 1 (54.7)

I’m not a fan of bourbons to be honest but the ones I tasted in the past were cheap and reduced. A really good friend told me this « Two World » small batch is worth a try, so I grabbed two samples of well known top-notch bourbons I had on the back of my shelves. Let’s try those now!

Bunnahabhain 7 yo 2008-2015 (58.6%, OB)
Bunnahabhain 14 yo 2004-2018 (53.2%, OB)
Bunnahabhain 36 yo 1975-2011 (56.8%, The Perfect Dram)

At first, I just chose two young Bunnahabhains to test but I couldn’t resist to the call of that ’75 one!

Port Charlotte 16yo 2001-2017 (59.7%, Archives)
Port Charlotte 2001-2013 (59.2%, Malts of Scotland)
Bruichladdich 19 yo 2988-2007 (58.5%, OB)

Here is the second part of my tasting dedicated to making me forget about wine cask Bruichladdich/PC. For the moment, it works pretty well, let’s see if continues that way.

Port Charlotte 14yo 2004-2019 (53.4%, Dramfool)
Port Charlotte 12yo 2003-2016 (65.9%, SMWS)
Port Charlotte 11 yo 2002-2013 (54.7%, Maltbarn)

The last time I reviewed some Bruichladdich/PC bottles it didn’t finished that well, so today I’ll give them another round without any wine cask around!

Bruichladdich 22yo 1992-2014 (50.7%, OB)
Bruichladdich 8yo 2009-2018 (63.6%,S. Eldvatten)
Port Charlotte 6yo 2007-2014 (62.9%, OB « Palaemon »)
Port Charlotte 14yo 2004-2018 (58.9%, Pvt. bottling)

When the moment came to choose what to test today, I felt brave and decided to grab two samples I tried to hide for a long time. I’m really not a fan of wine cask maturation in most cases (to say the least!) but when I started in the whisky world I didn’t knew about it. So let’s be brave and try those!