A 12 Years old single malt with 40 % alcohol is by many considered the best tasting single malt there is.

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2013-12-31 The 21st edition to the bottle and last in 2013 will be Bunnahabhain Darach, this name is Gaelic and means new oak.

It packs a punch with its 46,3 %, has natural colour and is not chillfiltered. From smell it doesnt seeem to be smoky but the taste is very smoky.

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2013-12-27

The 20th edition to the bottle is Glenfiddich Solera 15 Year old. One of the better Gleniffich iv tested with a lot of taste, very fruity long round and not as oily as i experience glenfiddich normally.

The Solera process is a process used to age “liquids” such as Wine, Beer, Vinegar, Brandy and even Rum. From my research the solera process was introduced to whisky making by Glenfiddich and i understand they are still alone in doing this.

A Solera is the actual barrels or a vat holding the liquid to later tap on bottles and the process aims at mixing yonger barrels with older barrels as you bottle from the solera vat. In a whine solera depicted there are 3 steps used where a base whine is wintaged for 1-2  years for selcted barrels to move in to a Nursery.  From the Nursery then the top of the pyramid in the Solera is filled as these barrels are filling the second layer and the second layer is fulling the 3rd and the 3rd is filling the bottom or a vat.

Gleniffich solera is produced from Second fill bourbon casks going to new oak casks (min 3-6 months) and spanish oak which in turn then is transferred to a solera vat never drained to less than halv its 50 000 liters in the filling process to ensure enough “old” whisky is left when they add new whisky (never younger than 15 Years though).

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The 19th edition to the bottle is Scapa Orcadian 16 yo. Distilled on the same island as the more known Highland park.
This whisky is very smoth and not smoky at all as many other island whiskys, its produced from a non peated barley.

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2013-07-19

The 18th edition to the bottle and the first irish contribution hence the spelling in the header.

This whiskey is distilled in the cork distillery on ireland and is distilled 3 times as most if not all Irish whiskeys.

Originally it was called Cork Distillery Company Old Irish Whiskey. But was in 1920 renamed to paddy old Irish whiskey after a sales person from the distillery who with such great success travelled the local area and sold the whiskey his name became synonymous with the whisky.

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The 17th edition to the bottle.

This whisky blend is from another bottle with the same consept as the sofiero whisky blend. It has not been tracked in the same manner so exact content is not possible to determine.

its was estimated to contain about 50 different brads when a part was added.

This lagavulin was bought at the distillery during the trip to islay.