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In 2007 Talisker 18-year-old won "Best Single Malt In The World 2007" at the World Whiskies Awards. [11] and in 2015 Talisker 10 Year Old won a Double Gold Medal and "Best Single Malt Scotch up to 12 years" in the San Francisco World Spirits Competition. Talisker was the favourite whisky of writers Robert Louis Stevenson and HV Morton.
The region of West Highland was created to separate between Oban and Dalwhinnie. Talisker is the only distillery on the Isle of Skye, which has never been a whisky region unto itself, [6] but would be in the Island subregion; though this categorisation enabled UDV to include both Talisker and Lagavulin, strongly flavoured malts with strong ...
Scotch whisky is divided into five distinct categories: single malt Scotch whisky, single grain Scotch whisky, blended malt Scotch whisky (formerly called "vatted malt" or "pure malt"), blended grain Scotch whisky, and blended Scotch whisky. [6] [7] Many Scotch whisky drinkers refer to a unit for drinking as a dram. [9]
Preshal More overlooks Talisker from the south. In 1820 Donald Macleod, 6th of Talisker, a major in the 56th Regiment, sold his interest in Talisker and emigrated to Van Diemen’s Land (financed by his father-in-law, Alexander Maclean of Coll). He travelled with 36 Highlanders of his connection and secured a grant of 2,000 acres (800 hectares ...
The supermoon of 14 November 2016 was 356,511 km (221,526 mi) away [1] from the center of Earth. Supermoons occur 3–4 times per year. [2] As the Earth revolves around the Sun, approximate axial parallelism of the Moon's orbital plane (tilted five degrees to the Earth's orbital plane) results in the revolution of the lunar nodes relative to the Earth.
United Distillers was a Scottish company formed in 1987 from combining the businesses of Distillers Company and Arthur Bell & Sons, both owned by Guinness. [1] The company owned six single malt Scotch brands, which were relaunched as the Classic Malts range.
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Talisker is a settlement in Skye, Scotland Talisker may also refer to: Talisker (band), by the Scottish percussionist Ken Hyder; Talisker, Western Australia, in the Shire of Shark Bay#Towns and localities, Australia; Talisker distillery, a whisky distillery near Talisker, in Carbost, Skye, Scotland; Talisker Conservation Park, Australia