The Islays have always been known to be punchy; impalpable and unorthodox with the merkiest, unfathomable of flavours. Tell me, who in their right minds would lick their lips and salivate over cigarette ash and cardboard boxes, or perhaps earthy, maritime, leather like flavours. Funny enough, a handful of headbutts with a few peated drams…
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Review : Grand Old Parr 12 YO
A bottle that got me almost nostalgic! This not because I’ve had the Old Parr before, in fact I had never heard of it and was surprised to see such an expression. The real reason was because the bottle drew several parallels with the wildly famous Old Monk (see below), a dark rum that garnered…