Lagavulin 8 Y.O. (48%, OB, 2016)
Lagavulin

Lagavulin 8 Y.O. (48%, OB, 2016)

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Those 16 years of the classic Lagavulin made it beloved in the whole world. Why in the Hell then did the distillery decide to halve the age of this iconic bottling? Originally this Lagavulin 8yo was launched as a special edition for the 200 years of the the distillery. Well, at least they did not invent absurd stories about some idiotic new gimmicks (paging Dr. Ardbeg?), and instead they decided to declare its age. The young lad here looks good from a merely conceptual point of view, and I do hope that it’s gonna rock soon all my organoleptic points of view! So actually this edition had an enormous success, a bit like the Sega Mega Drive console in the Nineties. And I looooved the Sega Mega Drive. Anybody else here spent months with Sonic the Hedgehog? Or did you all have a life?

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Inganess Bay 2000 (52.7%, MB, 2018)
Undisclosed distillery

Inganess Bay 2000 (52.7%, MB, 2018)

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Maltbarn, the German independent bottlers lead by that knight without fear and with a lot of malt who is Martin Diekmann, has recently bottled this eighteen-years-old from the Orkney Islands. Unfortunately we don’t really know the distillery, but on Orkney there are only two distilleries and this baby here apparently doesn’t come from Scapa. Distilled in 2000 and bottled after 18 years in a bourbon cask, it owes its name to the nice bay in front of Kirkwall Airport. It’s a good looking (I think?) single cask who promises an overbearing (overbearing? overbearing.) drinking experience, and it is listening to such promises that, in collaboration with my calabro-bavarian friend Francesco that a bit foolishly I bought this bottle. Was it a good deal or an abnormous fuck-up not? Continue reading “Inganess Bay 2000 (52.7%, MB, 2018)”

A Song of Ice and Whisky
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A Song of Ice and Whisky

Hi! This is Fabio, and I started my trip in the whisky world fairly recently – in the summer of 2013. I’m not an expert by any means, nor I have a great nose or a particularly refined palate. I just simply like to talk and blabber about whisky. Some can say that this blog is my way to annoy an imaginary virtual audience instead of my friends in the real life.

In reality I’m a climate scientist from Italy, but I’ve been living in different places in Europe: after spending almost six years in Germany, I moved back to Ispra, on the Lake Maggiore in the North of Italy, and now I’m in the City of Light. I started my trip in the whisky world, I was saying (as you have probably noticed, I’m a convoluted writer), with a trip to Scotland (the first of many), where I fell in love with the whisky lore visiting some distilleries. Continue reading “A Song of Ice and Whisky”