With names like Alligator and Snow Phoenix you know straight off the bat that these are no ordinary whiskies. Both have been out for a while now, and both are rather hard to come by. I’m a sucker for a good story, and here we have two. The first, the Ardbeg Alligator derives it’s name […]
Tasting Grant’s Sherry Cask Finish Whisky
Grant’s includes a couple cask finish whiskies in it’s line-up, namely the Ale Cask Finish, which I reviewed a short while back in my “Is South Africa Ready For Ale Cask Whisky?” post, and the Sherry Cask Finish – neither of which is available in South Africa unfortunately. Luckily for me, the people at Grant’s […]
Whisky tasting with South African flavour
In the past few weeks I’ve made a concerted effort to track down a bottle of Three Ships 10 Year Old Single Malt, after reading good reviews and hearing about it’s recent awards at the IWSC. Scouring local bottle stores proved fruitless, so I turned to the web. After some deft keystrokes I found myself […]
Our inaugural whisky club meeting
Isn’t it amazing how the simplest ideas are often the best ones? In this case it was Ryan saying a few months back that we should formalize our love of whisky a bit by forming a small whisky club. Seeing that we usually ended up having a few drams whenever our families got together it […]