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An Orkney Distillery 2008 13y Parcel No. 8 (EID)

 WhiskybaseEnglish Text-VersionElixier Distillers gehört neben Meadowside Blending und Signatory Vintage zu den drei unabhängigen Abfüllern wo ich aktuell am meisten zuschlage. Bei Elixier Distillers, Sukhinder Singh gehörend, dem ehemaligen C...

Secret Orkney 2002 18y The Maltman

 WhiskybaseEnglish Text-VersionIch muss gestehen, es ist nicht mein erstes Tête-à-Tête mit diesem geheimnisvollen Single Malt von den Orkney Inseln. Ich erstand die Flasche vor ein paar Monaten bei meinem Händler der Wahl in Wien. Die Flasche ...

Secret Orkney 2009 14y - Spirits of the Forest VIII (whic)

 WhiskybaseEnglish Text-VersionWie schon beim Secret Speyside von letzter Woche ist das "Secret" bei diesem Secret Orkney kein wirkliches Geheimnis. Denn auch bei dieser Abfüllung beginnt die Fassnummer mit "DRU" und somit ist klar, dass das Fass...

Good Bye Orkney

It was time to say bye to Orkney and to island life, for now, it was a hard goodbye but the views from sailing away from Stromness made it easier. I always wondered how it must feel to live on that little island in the bay of Stromness. The Pelican of ...

Stromness

Stromness – my last stop in Orkney – is a very lovely town and my little cottage had the best views of the harbour and the boats going in and out. The ferry was a constant visitor, but there was also a very special boat coming in and stayin...

Earls Bu and Church

Back on “mainland” Orkney I made one more stop before going back home and visited the Earl´s Bu and Church in Ophir. During the early period of Norse ruling, Ophir was a centre of power. The Orkneyinga Saga, dating to about 1136, tells of ...

More about Hoy

One more look at the beautiful Rackwick Valley in Hoy and then I started my journey back towards the ferry port. Hoy is the second largest island in Orkney and has the highest hill of all the islands that form Orkney. It somehow looks more like the Hig...

Isle of Hoy

Hoy – the island that always had a cloud on top. I was late booking a ferry and only got a return in the afternoon, so I didn´t have that much time to explore it and just have to come back another time to walk to the Old Man of Hoy and also visi...

Ness of Brodgar

It´s been a dreich day when I came back to the Ness of Brodgar, again – but I still wanted to take a closer look at the ongoing excavations of the Ness. Ring of Brodgar I parked the car at the Ring of Brodgar and started my walk along the Ness f...