At the 26th of august 2017 Christer Lagestig at Gammalsbygården, Öland, hosted a tasting to be remembered, led by Magnus Fagerström, a well-known name in whisky business in Sweden. Christer is a whisky lover with a special preference for Highland Park and this evening he picked up some special bottles from his collection that he offered to the tasting. How… Read more →
Category: Tastings
Warehouse tasting with Cadenhead´s Mark Watt
On our trip 2016 to “Campbeltown and Lowland” during our stay in Campbeltown KWA went on a warehouse tasting arranged by the independent bottler Cadenhead’s. Cadenhead’s is Scotland’s oldest independent bottler. They were established in 1842 and are still releasing fantastic whisky every year from their whisky stock and they are never ever use or uses chill-filtering or coloring. The… Read more →
Our kind of Easter eggs, live from KWA tour 2016
KWA is right now attending our tour in Campbeltown and Lowlands. After a four hour long bus ride from Glasgow began our Easter Monday with Double Distillery Tour led by Jim, who introduced us to Springbank as well as Glengyle. Very nice and educational. At noon we visited Cadenhead’s where Fraser Milloy guided us through a range of good whiskies.… Read more →
Whisky-expo on Saturday the 30st of January
Saturday the January 30st is KWA going to travel north and visit the Linköping whisky-expo for the fourth year. We are ready for the expo and two whiskey tastings are on the schedule. One is led by Martin Magnusson named Ultimate Selection Single Malts where we will get a taste of: Imperial 1996 Ultimate Edradour Dark Sherry Cask Strength 2003 Glenlivet 1998 Highland Park… Read more →
August 12th 2015, Report from BOX tasting at Gammalsbygården
At the 12th of august 2015 KWA went to Gammalsbygården at Gammalsby on Öland for a BOX whisky tasting. BOX is one of the newly established distilleries in Sweden and maybe that one that has been proceeding with the best advance assessments. The tasting we were booked on was a tasting with five different BOX whisky’s (or soon whisky) and… Read more →
April 10th Douglas House, Glasgow
After having met Fred Laing of Douglas Laing and Co at Whiskyexpo in Linköping, Sweden in February of 2015 where he made a great impression upon us we decided that we really would like to visit him in the Douglas House for a tasting during our trip to Northern Highlands and the Orkney Islands in April of 2015. When we… Read more →
Report from Whiskyexpo in Linköping Febuary 7th
We started the expo with an “Imperial 1995” from ”The Ultimate”. A very nice acquaintanceship, both fruity and tasteful. The second touchdown were a Teeling 21y. The Irish guys have some good stuff here. Twenty years in bourbon casks and finished with one year in sauternes wine casks. The result was not bad at all. Robust nose with a fully… Read more →