Four weeks minus three days - Maltstock time !!!

On 9, 10 and 11 september 2011 #Maltstock will be held !!

Enjoying #whisky, #company, #friends, #stories and all that together for a whole weekend.

Looking forward for the detox-walk (if I can make it with my ankles...).

Please have a look here: www.maltstock.com

BTW: Irritating, those hashtags, aren't they.... ??

Hakushu, heavily peated - 78/100

Distillery bottling
Abv 48%

nose: peat, light fruit, cookie spices
taste: peat (again), cookies
finish: little tickling, little spice

Hmm, i'm a fan of peated whiskies, but this one could not really get to me. Maybe because i didn't get any deeper level of taste below my first impression. Maybe I should say that for my taste it is not complex enough, should I improve my taste? Definitely, will try it in a few years again....

78 points

Bowmore 1999, Queen of the moorlands - 90/100

distilled 1999
bottled 2010

bottler: queen of the moorlands
bottle 20 of 199
cask 352
Abv 53,5%

nose: peat, flowers, marshland, vanilla
taste: surprisingly sweet, tickling, warm, Dutch "speculaas"
finish: just delicious

To be honoust,this was a present. But, boy, what a present indeed!!! This is a VERY nice dram. This is going to be one of my favourite bottles to sip from - maybe even maltstock or a 90-points tasting worth... And many thanks to the giver again!!

90 points

Glen Scotia 18yo by Kintra - 85/100

Distilled 02/1992
bottled 11/2010
cask 141
bottle 35 of 62
Abv 52,6%

nose: cherries, cookie spices, sherry
taste: whammie, Dutch black&white candy, peppery
finish: spicy, smokey

This is a reallynice whisky, i tasted it before at the WFNN this yearin Groningen, but believed it deserved a nice re-tasting, so did that last week together with thenext two drams. And it was worth it, finally a small independent Dutch bottler that finds it ways into very nice stock. Still curious what his own new make tastes like....

85 points