By Mike Lord
Old Malt Cask Littlemill 1991 19 Years Old
This Old Malt Cask Littlemill 1991 19 Yeas Old is full of citrus fruit and barley sugar and has some spices which develop on the pallet. 340 bottles were obtained from a refill hogshead. It’s getting rarer and rarer to see a Littlemill and this is [...]
the whisky shop dufftown
Lots of New Single Malts in from Douglas Laing
Sunday, December 19th, 2010The Whisky Experiments
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010By Mike Lord
During the Autumn Speyside Whisky Festival I ran a tasting looking at some of the perceived wisdom about whisky drinking. Here’s what happened.
Does the glass matter?
For this test we matched a wide mouthed tumbler against a copita (a sherry tasting glass). From both glasses a sample of Mackillop’s Choice Imperial 1990 was [...]
The Whisky Shop Dufftown’s Second Bottling – Caperdonich 1972 37 Years Old
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010By Mike Lord
Bottling No 2 is now ready to buy!
With the help of our inside man at Duncan Taylor we were able to liberate a small amount of Caperdonich from a single ex-Bourbon cask saving it from being Octaved. It certainly didn’t need it! This is one of the best Caperdonich’s I’ve had showing all [...]

