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Recent Posts

  • The 2020 Waffle Awards
  • Hillwood Chardonnay Cask
  • Whisky Waffle Podcast Launches Patreon
  • McHenry Distillery: a sense of place
  • Welcome to the House of Lark

Reviews

  • Tasmanian Whisky
    • Adams Distillery Pinot Noir Slosh Cask 46%
    • Belgrove Brown Rye
    • Heartwood Calm Before the Storm
    • Heartwood Convict Resurrection
    • Heartwood Dare to be Different
    • Heartwood Vat out of Hell
    • Hellyers Road Original
    • Hellyers Road 12 Year Old
    • Hellyers Road 15 Year Old
    • Hellyers Road Peated
    • Hellyers Road Pinot Noir Finish
    • Hillwood Chardonnay Cask
    • Killara Single Malt
    • Lark Classic Cask
    • Lark Distillers Selection
    • Lark Double Sherry Cask
    • Nant Port Wood 43%
    • Nant Sherry Wood 43%
    • Nant Homestead Reserve
    • Old Kempton First Release Solera Cask
    • Overeem Port Cask Matured
    • Overeem Sherry Cask Matured
    • Overeem Red Wine Cask Matured
    • Sullivans Cove French Oak Cask
    • Tasmanian Independent Bottlers RD 001
    • Trappers Hut
  • Other Australian Whisky
    • Archie Rose Rye Malt Whisky
    • The Big Black Cock Single Malt
    • Fossey’s Single Malt Whisky: Port Cask & Peated Sherry Cask
    • Great Outback Rare Old Australian Single Malt
    • Limeburners Infinity Solera Cask
    • New World Projects Ginger Beer Cask
    • Starward Single Malt
    • Timboon Single Malt Whisky
    • Whipper Snapper Project Q Batch 1 46.5%
  • Islay
    • Ardbeg 10 Year Old
    • Ardbeg Perpetuum
    • Bowmore Darkest 15 Year Old
    • Bunnahabhain 12 Year Old
    • Bunnahabhain 18 Year Old
    • Caol Ila 12 Year Old
    • Kilchoman Machir Bay
    • Lagavulin 16 Year Old
    • Laphroaig 10 Year Old
    • Laphroaig Quarter Cask
    • Port Charlotte Scottish Barley Heavily Peated
  • Islands
    • The Arran Malt Amarone Cask Finish
    • Highland Park 12 Year Old
    • Highland Park 18 Year Old
    • Highland Park Svein
    • Ledaig 10 Year Old
    • Scapa 16 Year Old
    • Talisker 10 Year Old
    • Talisker 57˚ North
    • Talisker Dark Storm
    • Talisker Port Ruighe
  • Speyside
    • Aultmore of the Foggie Moss 12 Year Old
    • Balvenie 12 Year Old DoubleWood
    • Balvenie 14 Year Old Caribbean Cask
    • Benromach Sassacaia Wood Finish
    • Cragganmore 12 Year Old
    • Glen Grant The Major’s Reserve
    • Glen Moray 12 Year Old
    • Glen Moray 16 Year Old
    • Glen Moray 10 Year Old Chardonnay Cask
    • Glen Moray Port Cask Finish
    • Glenfarclas 105
    • Glenfiddich 12 Year Old
    • Glenfiddich 15 Year Old
    • Glenfiddich 18 Year Old
    • Glenlivet 12 Year Old
    • Glenlivet 18 Year Old
    • Glenfiddich Select Cask
    • Glenlivet 12 Year Old
    • The Glenlivet Founders Reserve
    • The Glenlivet Master Distiller’s Reserve
    • Glenlivet Nadurra 16 Year Old
    • Glenlivet Nἁdurra Oloroso
    • Glenrothes Select Reserve, 1995, 1998
    • Glenrothes Alba, 2001, Select Reserve
    • Linkwood 20 Year Old Côte-Rôtie Finish
    • The Macallan Fine Oak 12 Year Old
    • Signatory Vintage Tormore 1995
    • Strathisla 12 Year Old
    • William Cadenhead Single Speyside Malt Scotch Whisky Aged 40 Years
  • Highlands
    • anCnoc 12 Year Old
    • anCnoc 16 Year Old
    • anCnoc Peter Arkle Limited Edition: ‘Bricks’
    • Balblair 2000
    • Dalmore 12 Year Old
    • GlenDronach 12 Year Old
    • GlenDronach Peated
    • The Pot Still Exclusive Invergordon 26 Year Old Single Grain Whisky
    • Oban 14 Year Old
    • Oban Little Bay
    • Old Pulteney 12 Year Old
    • Old Pulteney Navigator
    • Royal Lochnagar Distillers Edition
    • Speyburn 10 Year Old
  • Lowlands
    • Auchentoshan 12 Year Old
    • Auchentoshan Three Wood
    • Auchentoshan Classic
    • Auchentoshan Heartwood
  • Campbelltown
    • Longrow Cabernet Sauvignon Cask
    • Springbank 10 Year Old
    • Springbank 15 Year Old
    • Sprinkbank Gaja Barolo Cask
  • Scottish Blends
    • Big Peat
    • Blue Hanger 9th Release
    • Catto’s Blended Scotch Whisky
    • Eriskay
    • Inver House Green Plaid
    • Johnnie Walker Red Label
    • Johnnie Walker Black Label
    • Johnnie Walker Double Black
    • Johnnie Walker Gold Label Reserve
    • Johnnie Walker Platinum Label
    • Johnnie Walker Blue Label
    • Johnnie Walker Green Label
  • Irish Whisky
    • Bushmills 10 Year Old
    • Bushmills Black Bush
    • Connemara Peated Single Malt
    • Green Spot
    • Jameson Irish Whiskey
  • Japanese Whisky
    • Akashi White Oak
    • Hakushu Distillers Reserve
    • Iwai
    • Miyagikyo 12 Year Old
    • Nikka from the Barrel
    • White Oak Tokinoka
    • Yamazaki 12 Year Old
    • Yamazaki Distillers Reserve
  • American Whiskey
    • Abomination, The Crying of the Puma 54%
    • Booker Noe’s Special Barrel Bourbon
    • Buffalo Trace Kentucky Straight Bourbon
    • Eagle Rare 10 Year Old
    • Hudson Single Malt
    • Jack Daniel’s Old No. 7 Tennessee Whiskey
    • Jim Beam Kentucky Straight Bourbon
    • Kings County Bourbon 43%
    • Knob Creek Single Barrel Reserve 120 Proof
    • Makers Mark
    • Pappy Van Winkle 20 Year Old
    • Russell’s Reserve
  • Canadian Whisky
    • Collingwood Toasted Maplewood Stave Finish
  • Indian Whisky
    • Amrut Fusion
  • Icelandic Whisky
    • Flóki Single Malt
    • Flóki Icelandic Young Malt
    • Floki Young Malt Sheep Dung Smoked Reserve
  • Sri Lankan Whisky
    • Mendis Old Arrack

Whisky musings

  • The 2020 Waffle Awards
  • The 2019 Waffle Awards
  • The 2018 Waffle Awards
  • The 2017 Waffle Awards
  • The 2016 Waffle Awards
  • The 2015 Waffle Awards
  • The 2014 Waffle Awards
  • How we drink our whisky
  • The Fault in Our Stars
  • Four reasons Archie Rose will take over the (Australian Whisky) world:
  • What you could buy for the price of the record-breaking Macallan
  • Whisky Waffle Does March Madness
    • March Madness Round 2
    • March Madness Round 3
    • March Madness Quarter Finals
    • March Madness Semi Finals
    • March Madness Grand Final
  • The Ultimate Top Three Introductory Whiskies
  • Irish Whiskey: a cartoon history
  • A musing on single barrel releases
  • A whisky identity crisis
  • An ode to Islay
  • Lagavulin: 200 years of peated perfection
  • Reflections on a visit to Islay
  • Queries from a first time Waffler
  • Confessions of a Geriatric Whisky Newbie Part 2
  • Rye Reflections: my visit to Belgrove
  • Four must-visit Scottish whisky distilleries
  • Whisky Waffle celebrate Tasmanian whisky
  • No Age No Good? WW look at NAS whisky
  • NAS Week: A bad wrap
  • A Brave New World: Diageo invest in Australian Distillery
  • The day my head exploded in a cloud of smoke: a whisky memory
  • Distilled not Diluted: a rebuttal by a cynical Scotsman
  • A whisky book review: Kudelka and First Dog’s Spiritual Journey
  • Big Peat or The Perks of Random Conversation at the Bar
  • Ardbeg: A Journey Through Time – the beginning
  • Ardbeg: A Journey Through Time – the coming of age
  • Tasmanian Whisky Tours: a story worth telling
  • Whisky Waffle Present: Whisky World!
  • Whisky Waffle Present: American Whiskey Week
  • American Whiskey Week: what we’ve learned
  • The Coming of Age of a Non-Whisky Drinker
  • Johnnie Walker: the Verdict
  • An elegy to the Johnnie Walker Green Label
  • The Greatest Whisky in the World (conditions apply)
  • My Trip to Talisker
  • Top 5s
    • Top 5 Islay Distilleries
    • 5 Whisky Waffle Winter Warmers
    • 5 whiskies I would like to try in 2015
    • 5 drams to have at Christmas
  • The 25 days of Aussie whisky
    • The 25 days of Aussie whisky – Day 1: Upshot Whiskey 43%
    • Day 2: Hellyers Road Distillery 10yo Original Whisky 46.2%
    • The 25 days of Aussie whisky – Day 3: Starward Wine Cask 41%
    • The 25 days of Aussie Whisky – Day 4: 23rd Street Distillery Hybrid Whisk(e)y 42.3%
    • The 25 days of Aussie whisky – day 5: Limeburners Port Cask 43%
    • The 25 days of Aussie whisky – Day 6: Dobson’s Old Reliable 40%
    • The 25 days of Aussie whisky – Day 7: Bladnoch 10yo 46.7%
    • The 25 days of Aussie whisky – Day 8: Fleurieu Whisky Kisses 55%
    • The 25 days of Aussie whisky – Day 9: Tiger Snake Sour Mash Whiskey 43%
    • The 25 days of Aussie whisky – Day 10: Iniquity Batch 10 46%
    • The 25 days of Aussie whisky – Day 11: Deviant Distillery Anthology Batch 12 44%
    • The 25 days of Aussie whisky – Day 12: Tasmanian Independent Bottlers TIB??005
    • The 25 days of Aussie Whisky – Day 13: The Grove Distillery American Style Spirit 40%
    • The 25 days of Aussie whisky – Day 14: Timboon Distillery Port Expression 41%
    • The 25 days of Aussie whisky – Day 15: Castle Glen AWC 4yo Single Malt Whiskey 40%
    • The 25 days of Aussie whisky – Day 16: Starward Solera 43%
    • The 25 days of Aussie whisky – Day 17: Hellyers Road Distillery Pinot Noir Cask Finish 46.2%
    • The 25 days of Aussie whisky – Day 18: Limeburners American Oak 43%
    • The 25 days of Aussie whisky – Day 19: Fleurieu Distillery Atlantic Crossing 52%
    • The 25 days of Aussie whisky – Day 20: Belgrove Rye Whisky 42%
    • The 25 days of Aussie whisky – Day 21: Nant Distillery Sherry Cask 43%
    • The 25 days of Aussie whisky – Day 22: Dobson’s Distillery Empire 8 60%
    • The 25 days of Aussie whisky – Day 23: Launceston Distillery Tawny Cask 46%
    • The 25 days of Aussie whisky – Day 24: Joadja Distillery Single Malt Release No. 2 48%
    • The 25 days of Aussie whisky – Day 25: Iniquity Batch 11 46%

Whisky Adventures

  • McHenry Distillery: a sense of place
  • Heartwood: striving for consistency
  • Sawford Distillery: Welcome to the family
  • White Label: contract to distil
  • Scotland 2018: The Ultimate Whisky Adventure – Part Four
  • Taking it slow at Sandy Gray Distillery
  • Scotland 2018: The Ultimate Whisky Adventure – Part Three
  • Adams Distillery: Go Big or Go Home
  • Scotland 2018: The Ultimate Whisky Adventure Part Two
  • Scotland 2018: The Ultimate Whisky Adventure – Part One
  • An evening with Laphroaig’s Dan Woolley
  • An Evening with the Tasmanian Moonshine Company
  • Investigating Iron House Distillery
  • Down the Track to Timboon Railway Shed Distillery
  • A Tranquil Trip to Yamazaki Distillery
  • Spending Time at Sullivans Cove
  • A Stopover at Starward
  • Whisky Waffle Taste Success(fully)
  • Fannys Bay Distillery launches its whisky
  • Larking about at Lark
  • Welcome to the Southern Wild
  • Sheltering at Shene Estate
  • Return to Redlands
  • A Rye look at Belgrove
  • Fiddlers: A (Loch Ness) monster of a whisky bar
  • The Bruny Island House of Whisky
  • Landing at Launceston Distillery
  • Having fun at Fannys Bay
  • An afternoon at The Angel’s Share
  • Whisky Tales: Stories you can drink to
  • Bakery Hill Tasting
  • Waffling at Whisky Live 2015
  • Moseying on over to Mt Uncle
  • Navigating to the New World Distillery
  • William Grant & Sons Come to Burnie
  • Hanging out at Hellyers Road
  • An evening at Hellyers Road: 12 years in the making
  • Jim McEwan: the Rock-Star of Whisky
  • Rambling at Redlands
  • Whisky Appreciation and Nosing Collective – Night 1
  • Whisky Appreciation and Nosing Collective – Night 2
  • Blind Tasting: Hellyers Road
  • Blind tasting: Johnnies Night
  • Whisky Business: Whisky and Chocolate
  • Whisky Business: Night One

Whisky News

  • The North Unites for Tasmanian Whisky Week
  • Return to the Southern Wild
  • Whisky Waffle presents: EuroWaffle
  • Whisky Waffle Launch Irish Whiskey Week
  • Whisky Waffle host Christmas drinks at the Chapel
  • Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible 2018
  • Whisky Waffle Launch Podcast
  • Deviant Distillery: this is not whisky
  • Ardbeg add An Oa to the Family
  • Tas Whisky Week comes to the North West
  • Whisky Waffle to Waffle around the world
  • Whisky Live 2017 to be Hobart’s last
  • Whisky Waffle Sell Out
  • Whisky Waffle to host tasting event in Burnie
  • Troubling revelations emerge about embattled Tasmanian distiller Nant
  • Southern Wild: open for business
  • Jim McEwan joins Ardnahoe Distillery
  • Delving into Dark Valley: the launch of Tassie’s latest dram
  • Whisky Waffle launch Islay Week
  • Tasmanian Whisky Academy reveal their map of Tassie
  • Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible 2017
  • Tasmania and Whisky Waffle launch Tas Whisky Week
  • Whisky Live comes to Hobart
  • Trouble at Old Mill: Tasmanian distillery rocked by bankruptcy
  • A Brave New World: Diageo invest in Australian Distillery
  • Distilled not Diluted: a rebuttal by a cynical Scotsman
  • Happenings at Hellyers Road
  • Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible 2016
  • Hellyers Road release Saint Valentines Peak
  • Whisky Live to hit Melbourne this weekend
  • Whisky Business post-Easter get-together
  • Tasmanians on top of the world at the London World Whiskies Awards
  • The Glenlivet introduce the Founders Resever
  • William Grant masterclass: in Hobart
  • Jim Murray Rates Tasmanian Whiskies as Liquid Gold
  • Whisky Waffle announce: Johnny Walker Week
  • Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible 2015
  • Inaugural young whisky enthusiasts event
  • Hellyers Road Launch 12 Year Old
  • Jim McEwan comes to Tasmania
  • Ardbeg returns from space

Categories

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