The 2020 Waffle Awards
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by Whisky Waffle
3y ago
Posted by: Nick and Ted Well. 2020. We’re not going to forget you in a hurry. In a year such as this sometimes the only thing you can do is pour yourself a dram. And, hey, to celebrate making it out the other side we may as well make it a good one. Perhaps, even an award winning one! So, ladies and gents, behold: Whisky Waffle’s top drops for 2020! The Isle of the Drammed Award for the best Tasmanian whisky We’re super proud of the drams coming out of our home state and so have an award for the best one. This year the Isle of the Drammed Award goes to… Heartwood A Serious Whisky Welcome to ..read more
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Hillwood Chardonnay Cask
Whisky Waffle
by Whisky Waffle
3y ago
Reviewed by: Nick Tasmanian = check. Single cask = check. Cask strength = check. Ex-wine barrel = check. From a small distillery you’ve probably never heard of = check. Surely I’ve written this exact review before, right? WRONG! Because this whisky is quite unlike anything going around at the moment! Hillwood Distillery, based just north of Launceston, is the creation of father and sons team: Paul, Ollie, Daniel and Joel Herron. Inspired by their love of creating things, they decided single malt whisky was a product they could all get on board with. Together, they began to lay down small barr ..read more
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Whisky Waffle Podcast Launches Patreon
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by Whisky Waffle
3y ago
Posted by: Nick Over the past two years we have brought our Waffling to the airwaves with our Whisky Waffle Podcast. It’s reached people all over the world and we’ve recently added an interview series with people in the industry. It’s all looking pretty exciting for the future of the pod – which is why we are trying to take things to the next level by launching a Whisky Waffle Patreon! www.patreon.com/whiskywaffle Patreon is an (completely optional!) service where you can pay as little as a few dollars a month to access bonus content, have a say on features for the pod and become part of an i ..read more
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McHenry Distillery: a sense of place
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by Whisky Waffle
3y ago
Posted by: Nick Terroir /tɛrˈwɑː (n) the characteristic taste and flavour imparted to a whisky by the environment in which it is produced Terroir is a divisive subject. How much impact can water, soil, air and climate really have on a whisky’s flavour in comparison to cask types when aging and cut points when distilling? I was in the camp that would claim ‘negligible’. And then I went to McHenry Distillery. Now I get it. Because when we drank a specific whisky in a specific location… it all lined up. It all made sense. McHenry is a distillery like no other in Australia. In fact, the only comp ..read more
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Welcome to the House of Lark
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by Whisky Waffle
3y ago
Posted by: Nick and Ted AWH is dead. Long live Lark Distilling Co. Recently there has been quite a bit of talk and speculation surrounding Lark and a couple of their new releases. The new Symphony No. 1 and the 3rd Wolf of the Willows collab both bear the Lark logo on their labels, however the former states that it is a ‘blended malt’, while the latter proclaims that it was distilled at their ‘Bothwell site’ (i.e. Nant Distillery). The fact that both releases contain spirit that was not distilled at Lark’s Cambridge site sparked controversy in some quarters – should the labels really still sa ..read more
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Dailuaine Flora & Fauna 16yo 43%
Whisky Waffle
by Whisky Waffle
4y ago
Reviewed by: Nick Goddammit, Diageo has some hidden gems! Diageo, for those who don’t know, is the largest spirit producer in the western world. Their whisky makers include heavy hitters such as Lagavulin, Dalwhinnie, Talisker and Caol Ila. However, these ‘classic malts’ only constitute part of their collection – there are a number of other distilleries whose spirit you probably would have only tasted mixed into a dram of Johnnie Walker. Dailuaine is one such distillery, a Speyside establishment known for its heavily sherried style. While you won’t find it in many mainstream bottle shops, it ..read more
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Milk & Honey Distillery Virtual Australian Launch
Whisky Waffle
by Whisky Waffle
4y ago
Posted by: Ted So, acting on a whim, I popped over to sunny Tel Aviv in Israel the other day to do a spot of whisky tasting and a distillery tour. Actually, that’s a lie. The government won’t let us leave Australia yet and I was sitting around freezing my tits off on a wintry Tasmanian evening. But, through the magic of the internet, I was still able to go venturing off into distant exotic lands to partake in a dram and a tour of Milk & Honey Distillery (M&H), Israel’s first whisky producer. Ready to Zoom with my M&H tasting pack, supplied by The Spirit Safe The Spirit Safe and Al ..read more
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Whisky Waffle Podcast Episode 22
Whisky Waffle
by Whisky Waffle
4y ago
This episode contains: – The Waffle, where we discuss/gossip about developments at Tasmania’s most famous distillery and speculate at the plans of their AWH overlords – The Whisky, where we review the TIB vatted malt 3, Tim Duckett’s cheapest release yet! and – Mystery Whisky, where Nick nearly figures out a duty free Bunnahabhain but fails at the final hurdle   ..read more
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Dadwhinnie
Whisky Waffle
by Whisky Waffle
4y ago
Posted by: Ted It’s my Dad’s birthday today. I suppose this day tends to make me a bit introspective because he died in 2013. Since then I’ve been finding my way through life in certain aspects without the guiding hand of a father, a fact that I regret more as I grow older and one that I didn’t appreciate enough as a callow youth. History and literature warn us of this condition of course, but I suppose it’s hard to understand at the time… and by then it’s too late. The reason I first started this musing, over breakfast, as you do, was that I was trying to decide what dram would be best to to ..read more
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Whisky Waffle Podcast Episode 21
Whisky Waffle
by Whisky Waffle
4y ago
Whisky Waffle · Episode 21 – Iso Waffle This episode contains: – The Waffle, where we discuss the state of the whisky world during the time of Corona; – The Whisky, where we review the cask strength classic sherry bomb: the Aberlour A’bunadh; – Mystery Whisky, where Ted struggles to identify a west coast wonder from the USA, partly because Nick gets muddled up between Westland and Westward; and – Dram in the box, where Ted produces a ground breaking whisky from Sweden ..read more
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