Live Tastings

Get to know four gins and three tonics in the Gin Live Tasting. Our Master Taster Ben Lüning and gin professional Petra Milde invite you to taste the fruity and spicy Amarula African Gin, the classic Isle of Harris Gin, the well-known Tanqueray No. Ten Gin and the Botanist 22 Islay Dry Gins, which are not only popular with connoisseurs. Also included in the tasting are the tonic waters from Mistelhain in Regensburg, which bring out the flavours of the gins particularly well without pushing themselves to the fore.

Tune in to the live stream at WHISKY.DE/LIVE on 02.06.2023 at 7pm or join us on YouTube via our Whisky.de channel and discover the Gins and Tonic Water with Ben Lüning and Petra Milde.

On the occasion of the Japanese cherry blossom festival Hanami, we filmed a Miniature Live Tasting with whiskies from the Suntory distillery. Together with Ben and Horst Lüning, taste two bottlings from the core range of the Japanese distillery. You can find the video free of charge here in the article!

Suntory Chita 43% vol.

Suntory Hibiki Harmony 43% vol.

Are you interested in whisky and don't yet know which one is best to start with? In our Beginner Live Tasting, we present four Single Malts that offer the right introduction. The fruity 'The Bothy' from Arran is matured in particularly small quarter casks, which increases the contact between whisky and oak and makes the malt particularly aromatic and full-bodied. The 12-year-old Aberfeldy, on the other hand, is a particularly sweet Highlands Single Malt. Matured 100% in sherry casks, Glendronach 12 year is particularly rich. Talisker Skye from the island of the same name is spicier and is partly matured in freshly burnt oak casks, giving it a particularly peppery and slightly smoky aroma.

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Taste four different Scottish Single Malts together with Ben and Horst Lüning. You can find the video free of charge here in the article!

Glendronach 12 years 43% vol

Talisker Skye 45.8% vol

Arran Quarter Cask 'The Bothy' 56.2% vol.

Aberfeldy 12 years 40% vol

#WeStayHome - We have also taken this motto to heart and want to make your time at home as pleasant as possible. Therefore, we have filmed a Miniature Live Tasting with Laphroaig for you. Together with Ben and Horst Lüning, taste two Single Malts from the core range of the Islay distillery. You can find the video for free here in the article!

Laphroaig 10 years 40% vol.

Laphroaig Quarter Cask 48% vol.

Lowlands whiskies are known for their soft character and floral notes such as heather. The Auchentoshan distillery is also one of the few distilleries to use triple distillation. The distillery often works with sherry cask maturations to give the whisky sweeter and fruitier notes.

Join Ben and Horst Lüning in tasting three Single Malts from the Lowlands distillery. You can find the video for free here in the article!

Auchentoshan American Oak 0,7 litre 40% vol.

Auchentoshan 12 Years 0,7 Litre 40% vol.

Auchentoshan Three Wood 0,7 litre 43% vol.

Bowmore is a typical Islay whisky. In the island distillery, the smoky malt is still classically spread on its own malt floors and dried in its own kiln over peat fires. As a result, the Bowmore whisky shows a distinct peat smoke note, but at 35ppm, the malts are moderately smoky by Islay standards. Maturation in Oloroso sherry casks gives the whisky a very fruity character. Taste your way through Bowmore's standard range and experience the complex interplay of medium smoke and fruity Oloroso sherry casks. The large bottles are also available as miniatures!

Taste three Single Malts from the Islay distillery together with Ben and Horst Lüning. You can find the video free of charge here in the article!

Bowmore 12 years 0,7 L 40% vol.

Bowmore 15 years 0,7 L 43% vol

Bowmore 18 years 0,7 L 43% vol

Take a tasting journey through Scotland in our Live Tasting! This time, we're heading to the Scottish West. There we taste three top whiskies of the smoky Islay faction. The 10-year-old Ardbeg Ten, the 16-year-old Lagavulin and the 10-year-old Port Charlotte.

Join Ben and Horst Lüning in tasting the three giants of smoky Single Malt. You can find the video for free here in the article!

Ardbeg TEN 10 years 46%

Port Charlotte 10 years 50%

Lagavulin 16 years 43%

With the Live Tasting Set for advanced tasters, you can dive even deeper into the complexity of whisky. The Glenfarclas matured for a proud 25 years in sherry casks to become a multi-layered Single Malt. A variety of aromas can also be found in the smoky Islay malt Laphroaig 16 Years. The two Single Malts are joined by a Single Grain Whisky: Greign 20 years comes from the Macduff distillery and was partly matured in sherry casks.

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Join Ben and Horst Lüning in tasting three Single Malts from the Highlands distillery. You can find the video free of charge here in the article!

Smoky whiskies also exist outside the island of Islay. Beam Suntory summarises its most popular smoky whiskies in the series 'Peated Malts of Distinction'.

Experience the different facets of peat smoke together with Ben and Horst Lüning. You can find the video for free here in the article!

Ardmore Legacy 40% vol

Connemara 40% vol

Bowmore 12 years 40% vol

Laphroaig 10 years 40% vol

Have you ever tried Japanese whisky? In our Japan Live Tasting, we present three whiskies that have found their way to us from the land of the rising sun. On the tasting menu are: Yamazaki, matured for 12 years in various oak casks, which is one of the best international whiskies from 25 years of Whisky.de, the Suntory Hibiki Harmony, which was created as a blend of the best Malt and Grain whiskies from the Suntory distilleries and bottled in a special bottle design, and the popular Suntory Toki Blend with Highball glass, which focuses on the Single Malt from Hakushu and the heavy Chita Grain.

Ben and Horst Lüning invite you to the live tasting of the three Suntory bottlings on 23.09.2022 at 19.00 for the German version and at 20.00 for the English version. You will find the video of the tasting free of charge here in the article after publication!

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Three distilleries from three Scotch whisky regions where independence is writ large: The distilleries Glenfarclas (Speyside), Kilchoman (Islay) and Springbank (Campbeltown) stand on their own two feet. With local water, regional barley and their own cask management, they traditionally produce Single Malt whiskies. The live tasting gives an insight into the Independent Malts Collection with the malty-sherry Glenfarclas, the fruity-smoky Kilchoman and the medicinal-sweet Longrow from the Springbank distillery.

Taste the three Independent Malts together with Ben and Horst Lüning. You can find the video free of charge here in the article!

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Please also visit our Independent Malts Collection brand shop!

The Monsters of Smoke are three popular standard bottlings from the Islay distillery Ardbeg. As the name suggests, there will be a lot of smoke at our live tasting! An Oa (an:oh) is named after the small peninsula The Oa on the Isle of Islay, where only about 40 people live. Due to its partial maturation in PX sherry casks, the malt is sweeter and spicier than its brother TEN. The smoky notes, on the other hand, are distinct and full-bodied. Only half as old and therefore twice as smoky and intense is Wee Beastie, which is named after the small, biting monsters that roam the moors of Islay.

Join Ben and Horst Lüning in tasting three Single Malts from the Islay distillery. You can find the video free of charge here in the article!