When tasting it’s not always about the destination, sometimes it’s all about the Journey
Tristan
Sailor’s Home are a distillery based near Limerick.
Where their whiskey batches are limited.
They’re big on inclusion.
Their expressions are cask fusions
And strangers are friends you haven’t met yet.
After Dark, Another Dram, A D Rattray
Tristan
There are a number of indie bottlers out there. It is becoming quite a sport to buy up casks, draw up artwork and then package the whisk(e)y as the best thing since sliced bread. However, there are five indie bottlers that are at the top of the tree and AD Rattray is one of them. Maybe it’s because they have been in the business for so long. Their founder, Andrew Dewar Rattray started selecting casks over 150 years ago and whilst we suspect he is not picking the casks now, he has passed on a wonderful passion and a keen eye for those who are now in charge.
For this tasting Tristan tried their 2007 Caol Ila which was from cask #313206.
Whats the hubbub around Huddart?
Tristan
Old Pulteney was founded in 1826 with this expression being part of a new core range that was released in 2018. When Sir William Pulteney decided to build a whole new town near to Wick (in the north or Scotland) I doubt he was under the illusion that the distillery, taking his name, would be a staple to so many whisky drinkers nearly 200 years later. This expression takes its name from the very street where the distillery sits, producing nearly 2 million litres of whisky each year.
The Who said it best in 1978… Who Are You ?
Tristan
Very little is known about the origins of Finlaggan bottlings. If you had Poirot, Miss Marple and Hastings in a room even they wouldn’t be able to give you the name of the distillery where these bottles come from. Maybe if you hunt through the internet for long enough, go to enough corners of the web or even find a dark hole somewhere then you may get the name. But where is the fun in that ? All I know is that these bottles are labelled as an Islay whisky and that it’s very difficult to find one that I don’t like. So, what was the Feis Ile 2017 bottling like?
Limber up for another Bimber
Tristan
A few months before the Amateur Dramaddicts came together two of the team went out for a whisky day in London. This was early 2020 (yes, that year) and the day started with a tour of the Bimber distillery. Tristan and Matt loved their time looking around and enjoyed the whisky on offer just as much. Very quickly they both became Klub members and enjoyed the initial releases. However, can there ever be too much of a good thing ?
The distillery was founded in 2015 and their first whisky release came in 2019. Quickly their name grew with clever marketing but, more importantly, a passionate and knowledgeable team. Don’t get me wrong, you don’t get the audience that Bimber has without being ruddy good at what you produce.
Let’s talk a distillery exclusive.