Teeling 21 yo 1998-2020 (52.6%, OB)
Single Malt Irish Whiskey 24 yo 2017 (46.8%, TBWC)
Ireland 26 yo 1989-2015 (49.8%, DD)
Irish S. Malt 1991-2015 (52.2%, The Whisky Mercenary)
Gelston’s 26 yo 2018 (54.2%, OB)
Irish S. Malt 26 yo 1988-2015 (45.6%, Whisky Doris)
Redbreast 19 yo 1998-2017 (55.7%, OB)

Irish whisky from the 90’s have quite a reputation. So I decided to finally try a big bag of those, I hope you guys loves exotic fruits!

Glenallachie 5 yo 2014-2020 (52.3%, LGA)
Secret Highland 9 yo 2010-2019 (53.3%, LGA)
Ardmore 22 yo 1997-2020 (50.6%, LGA
Blended Malt 18 yo 2001-2019 (46.4%, LGA
Croftengea 10 yo 2009-2020 (53.5%, LGA


I once heard some positive feedback about « Les Grands Alambics » (LGA), a good french independent bottler. Today I try their new « Birds Serie », a release of five different bottlings. It’s the first time I taste something from LGA and I was looking forward to try it so let’s get started!

Ben Nevis 23 yo 1996-2019 (51.3%, Elixir Distillers)
Ben Nevis 21 yo 1996-2018 (52.9%, Cadenhead)
Ben Nevis 22 yo 1997-2019 (48.8%, EVWC)
Ben Nevis 21 yo 1998-2019 (50.3%, EVWC)

Today I’ll test two nice Hogshead ’96 Ben Nevis and I added two bonus bottlings to the dance which are not from ’96 because… why not?!

Mortlach 25 yo 1995-2020 (45.8%, Le Gus’t)

The french independent bottler « Le Gus’t » releases another bottling and it’s a Mortlach 25 yo with a pretty fair price tag to say the least. I can’t wait to try it to be honest and I heard it’s not a typical Mortlach profile so we will see.

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!