Thursday 17 May 2018

#BlindTasting Series 3 - Review


Series 3 of #BlindTasting has recently finished and as usual I'll post a summary. Following on from fantastic Series 1 & 2 - this one was brought up a few surprised with the five of us trying to identify 15 mystery drams through smell and taste, having #NoPreconceivedIdeas or #MarketingBullshit to sway our opinions.





Hopefully you've read through the blogs for Part 1Part 2 and Part 3, this blog is pulling it all together and revealing our overall favourite where @jwbassman_, @SpiritAndWood, @GentlemanGrimm and @WhiskyWings swapped some samples and blind tasted them!



We had another three brilliant evenings, drinking lots of whisky and more importantly sharing lots of laughs! This post gives an overview of the 15 whiskies we tried with some geeky stats and some final thoughts!



Strength wise all but 1 were over the standard 40% ABV





This time our drams spanned most of the regions of Scotland and a few from around the world!


After the final session I asked the guys to vote for their top 3 for each of the three sessions, in each case first got 3pts, second got 2pts and third got 1pt. Only one of our drams didn't register a point.



It was pretty close but as you can see the winner was Grimm's Infinity Bottle followed closely by Forgan's Corn Whisky, CWC's Islay MS011 and CA's Glen Ord 2004. None of us were keen on the surprise Brandy!


Some highlights:
  • None of the drams were bad! I think a lot can be said of marketing and word of mouth putting you off a whisky which if you blind tasted you might like!
  • The Forgan coming in joint 2nd wasn't even 3 year's old
  • John's whisky photography is fantastic!
  • Alistair tried to con us with a brandy.....
  • We had a laugh and loads of fun!
  • We still haven't found that elusive Mongolian dram......
  • Part 2 was a wet the baby's head for Charlotte Victoria!


If you want to organise your own #BlindTasting, here's some hints!

Once again many many thanks to @jwbassman_@SpiritAndWood@GentlemanGrimm and @WhiskyWings for joining me for a fantastic third series and you for reading the blog!