Series 5 Part 2
After a short break over Christmas the team have swapped more drams and tonight we need to try and work out what they are, but more importantly tell us what we think of them without knowing where they are from. #NoPreconceivedIdeas! If you haven't followed us before you can catch up with all the previous series here.
Due to postal issues and our revised lineup for Part 1, Part 2 was a little strange : C13 from @SpiritAndWood, B14 from @JWBassman_, D14 from @GentlemanGrimm, E14 from @WhiskyWings and finally C14 again from @SpiritAndWood
First our pre-tasting photos:
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| Brian's photo |
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| Grimm's photo |
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| Mike's photo |
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| Alistair's photo |
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| John's photo |
So the first dram of the evening was C13 from Alistair....
Mike was straight in with the peat but I wasn't getting it....
John shared Mike's thoughts...
Maybe it was just different experiences #EveryNoseIsDifferent ?
Alistair put me right...
Obviously I wasn't feeling well....
No sympathy from my mates!
Grimm was in with the distillery guesses...
A sip and my senses were working again!
Alistair had given to much of a clue!
It reminded me a of great dram I'd tried recently...
Which was unpronounceable to us mere mortals, but luckily we had an expert on stand-by!
Another clue from Alistair, from Islay but not from Islay?
Alistair's C13 turned out to be Bunnahabhain's Moine!
Next up was John with B14....
Mike was in love!
Alistair thought he recognised it...
John wanted to know what we thought....
But where was it from?
We weren't getting anywhere so John offered a clue...
Alistair picked up on this straight away!
But we were all looking in the wrong place...
So another clue was offered...
Grimm wasn't sure, but Mike had it!
So what was the dram?
John's B14 was Flaming Heart from Compass Box
Next up was Grimm with D14
We all got loads of sherry - Speysider right?
John had been really close with the ABV
But not with the country...
Maybe it was the elusive Mongolian whisky we'd been searching for since Series 1?
But Grimm wasn't going to dignify that with an answer!
We all seemed to like it except John
Grim put us right on a few points...
With all them sherry notes it had to be from Speyside right?
But we were wrong....
Mike had it though!
D14 was Highland Park's Dark Origins
Fourth dram of the evening was Mike's E14
An easy one to guess?
It's American surely.....
Alistair had some ideas on maturation...
Mike told us which continent...
The only distillery I knew in Canada wasn't right...
John had some ideas on maturation...
But as it was getting late Mike put us out of our misery, E14 was Gretzky Estates Ice Cask Whiskey
Not one many people would have heard of
Final dram of the night was back to Alistair with C14
John was the only one of us who got an 'O' level in Geography!
Not Alistair had recently been on a visit to Islay, where exactly had he been?
We we're going for Caol Ila...
But we were wrong....
A little clue...
And we got it!
But which bottling?
Mike was straight in there....
John and I had the same idea...
But Alistair put us out of our misery! C14 was Ardbeg's Uigeadail
John and I have our own bottles of this but didn't recognise it....
Another great evening of whisky #BlindTasting
It was a little late so John finished with some closing comments....
You may have noticed a lack of comments from Grimm towards the end of the evening....
We got this message the following morning!
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