The 1983 Tasting Series #1: St. Magdalene
The year: 1983. Then, as now, it was a tumultuous time. The globe had been in the grip of recession, the middle east was unstable, and if you wanted to take a Tylenol to just deal with the headaches...
View ArticleThe 1983 Tasting Series #2: Banff
The 1983 tasting continues! Thanks to everyone who came for the first installment. I’ll be trying to publish these on Fridays or Saturdays, depending on scheduling. This week we’re looking at Banff. If...
View ArticleThe 1983 Tasting Series #3: Dallas Dhu
In the two weeks since this tasting series began, almost as if on cue, there have been new rumblings about the Dallas Dhu distillery. As I said in the first piece in this series, the 10 distilleries...
View ArticleThe 1983 Tasting Series #4: Glen Mhor
It’s the fourth entry in the trip through the closed distilleries of 1983. If you’ve been following so far, we’ve hit some interesting ones so far; my personal favorite to date being Banff. Unlike last...
View ArticleThe 1983 Tasting Series #5: Brechin (aka North Port)
It’s easy to look at the 1983 closures and say they were an unfortunate necessity, or perhaps (as I read elsewhere recently) an overreaction to a slump in the sector. However, that misses one point...
View ArticleThe 1983 Tasting Series #6: Brora
At last, the mighty Brora. If you’re a follower of Serge over at Whiskyfun, you know that Brora occupies a spot somewhere near “holy sacrament” in his whisky preferences. It’s certainly in the upper...
View ArticleThe 1983 Tasting Series #7: Glen Albyn
Glen Albyn is one of the lesser-seen 1983 distilleries. According to Oliver Klimek’s interesting reference, Glen Albyn falls under the “Endangered” category, like many of the other 1983s. I can’t say...
View ArticleThe 1983 Tasting Series #8: Glenlochy
If there was a bottle that was a complete pain to procure for the 1983 tasting series, it had to be Glenlochy. It’s inevitable that some of these old distilleries that produced whisky almost completely...
View ArticleThe 1983 Tasting Series #9: Glenugie
The 1983 tasting series has its penultimate entry in Glenugie. Glenugie was an unknown for me coming into this tasting. It hasn’t seen a tidal wave of single cask releases a la Port Ellen, or garnered...
View ArticleThe 1983 Tasting Series #10: Port Ellen
I almost hate putting “Port Ellen” in the title of a blog post; it’s the cheapest trick available to whiskey bloggers. Some twitter bot will retweet your link-tweet; people will click because – OH MY...
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