Holyrood Arrival
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by Single Malt Snob
An Arrival review
Back in September 2022, I did a small Scotland trip with some friends.
And when we were in Edinburgh, we visited the Holyrood distillery for a tour.
Back then, we were notified that no whisky could be tasted yet, so we had to do with new make. Which was a fun tasting!
I truly enjoyed that afternoon in Edinburgh, in the large building that housed a brewery once, learning and having fun with friends.
(Fun fact, did you know the shape of the bottle is a quiet reminder of the brewery? So basically a beer bottle?)
When we walked away in search of dinner, I poked Drambuddie Michiel and told him I would try to get the first whisky edition that they would bring out.
Little over a year later, Arrival was bottled. And I did my very best to get a bottle. I even had direct contact with some Scottish stores but I missed out. Either because it was out of stock, or when it was in stock, due to not shipping to the EU mainland. (You got to love Brexit.)
Years later, we are talking spring 2025, Drambuddie Martijn popped in for a visit and presented me and my wife with a bottle of Arrival. Because we were expecting an arrival ourselves. I was over the moon, but had to wait for the actual arrival of our newborn before I could open it.
So, mid May, our daughter arrived. And it was time to open this bottle.
(Next to another that had been waiting for exactly this occasion.)
And I have to be honest, I had some doubts opening this one, since I had been looking for it for a while. BUT HEY! YOLO!
The whisky was bottled at 46,1%. When pouring the first dram [lees verder].
