Woodrow’s Whisky – Woah!
OK, you might be thinking that this location doesn’t line up with your idea of a perfect whisky tasting… …but that’s where you’d be wrong! What it misses out on in romance, it gains in
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Springbank Society Tasting @ SWMS Vaults
Springbank has rapidly become a more and more exclusive distillery – they only produce up to 260,000 litres a year (compare to Caol Ila ~7m, Macallan ~15m and Glenfiddich ~20m) and their ethos and quality
Buckcask! Tonic Wine Whisky
I was at a tasting recently and we got discussing different cask finishes. Maybe a couple of drams had been had at this point, but it was jokingly considered if anyone had ever finished a
Cadenhead Club Tasting – Edinburgh
Quick review of an excellent tasting for Cadenhead Club’s (10th?) anniversary. It was an excellent night, with some amazing drams and held in a great space (the downstairs room at the Canon’s Gait). Some very
(My) 10 Years of Whisky Fringe
Just before the 2023 edition of Whisky Fringe kicks off, I realised I’d attended 10 previous editions of this excellent event, and this post is just a celebration of that fact. My first appearance (2011)
Ecurie Ecosse @ Merchiston Mews
During one of my many ‘Wednesday Wanders‘, I found another lovely Mews in Edinburgh. A Mews is a row of stables and carriage houses, but this one’s horsepower was upped somewhat… [link]
Edinburgh’s Lost Distilleries: Newington
There used to be so much more distilling happening in Edinburgh. Aside from the big North British grain distillery and a couple of ‘craft’ upstarts potentially about to appear, almost all of that heritage has