May 2, 2015
Salute for Jim McEwan, this guy is an industry veteran - former cooper and innovative distiller – living whisky encyclopedia. Last year Mark Reynier left Bruichladdich to set a new distillery in Ireland, Laddie Ten was replaced by some NAS as a core expression, and now McEwan retires, too bad, and it’s concerning me a lot. It was so brave and innovative squad, outstanding visionaries who gave us a lot of fun with their whisky, and brang some freshness to very conservative industry. Octomore is an extreme thing, personally I do enjoy it, but it's rather late fall/winter dram, so these things has to wait a bit ;)