Whiski News — 2021NOV

Today we shall be having a look at the Smokehead High Voltage, a cask strength Islay whisky released by the good people at Ian Mcleod Distillers ltd. The Smokehead series comes from an unnamed distillery on Islay (normally Caol Ila) and is normally bottled in a few expressions each year such as the sherry bomb, rum rebel and the high voltage.  Here we have the new version of the Smokehead High Voltage, we are not told anything other than the AVB of this dram, which is 58%. The nose opens with musty cloves, iodine and peat smoke. Small hints of...

Today we shall be having a look at the core release 12 year old from Loch Lomond distillery. One of the more recently constructed distilleries in Scotland, A product of the 1960s distillery building boom. Loch Lomond was built in ’66 by a joint partnership between Duncan Thomas, the American owner of [now demolished] Littlemill, and Chicago-based Barton Brands. The American firm took full control in 1971, but closed it in 1984 when that boom turned to bust.  The distillery was handed around a few companies till it was sold in 2014 for an undisclosed sum (believed to be in the tens of...