#BTC54 #BlindDrams Tasting Notes

These are my tasting notes and results from the Blind Tasting Consortium's 54th #BlindDrams evening.

These drams were picked by Patrick @whiskypatrick.bsky.social

Brave New Spirits - Cask Noir

Indie bottler Brave New Spirits @BNS_Whisky keep coming out with new releases!

Here's my thoughts on two recent ones from the Cask Noir series!

Signatory Vintage 100 Proof

Signatory Vintage have been releasing a series of 100 Proof bottlings over the last 6 months or so...

Let's find out a little more.

Review of my whisky year - 2023

Firstly thanks to all of you who have read my blog (c228,000 up from 147,000 last year) and followed me on Twitter (c6,350 up from 5,300 last year).

This blog has been going for 7 years now and this is the 682nd blog post! In that time I've reviewed over 1,810 whiskies! Let's review 2023!

Side by side : peated whisky from Bunnahabhain

Islay - home of peated whisky? We know that all of the distilleries on Islay produce peated whisky* - well all except one @Bunnahabhain! Well it turns out that they actually do!

Two entry level peated releases are Mòine and Toiteach A Dhà - let's see what they are like!

Chorlton Whisky - Four Peat Monsters

One of the smaller indie bottlers @ChorltonWhisky have released over 60 bottles each with a unique medieval style label.

Here I'm trying four of their peated bottlings:

Virtual tasting: Fib Whisky with NEWAS

The North East Whisky Appreciate Society @eastwhisky is a great little group based in the north east of England who organise regular virtual tastings, this one featured @fibwhisky

The tasting was hosted by @Iain_Mundy and @Fib_Aedan from Fib.

#BTC27 #BlindDrams Tasting Notes

These are my tasting notes from the Blind Tasting Consortium's 27th #BlindDrams evening.

These drams were picked by Duncan @whiskytip

Islay - Branded Glencairns

As well as distillery tours, warehouse tastings, meetings friends old and new and buying whisky there's one more thing you need to do on a whisky road trip...

Buy branded @GlencairnGlass glasses!

Islay - Bunnahabhain Distillery

The first distillery tour and tasting on our trip was @Bunnahabhain.

Where the legend @davidjbrodie led us on a Warehouse No.9 Tasting!

Islay - Planning

Each year our little gang gets permission from our wives for a few days away. This year, delayed by two due to Covid, we managed to get to Islay!

Our great logo designed by John @JWBassman_

As with any kind of road trip planning is very important...

Side by side: Two from Skene

A pair of drams from the same indie bottler arrived via a blind sample swap.

@SkeneWhisky isn't a name I'd heard of before - let's see what their whisky is like!

#BTC24 #BlindDrams Tasting Notes

 These are my tasting notes from the Blind Tasting Consortium's 24th #BlindDrams evening.

These drams were picked by Mike @WhiskyWings

The Whisky Cellar @TweetTastings

@whisky_cellar chose @TheWhiskyWire to launch their 5th Batch with a @TweetTastings - those who were successful received a lovely package of samples through the post.

Five bottles from the new range - let's see what the drams were like!

#BTC20 #BlindDrams Tasting Notes

 These are my tasting notes from the Blind Tasting Consortium's 20th #BlindDrams evening.

These drams were picked by Sam @ReviewsWhisky & Mike @whiskyrover

Review of my whisky year - 2021

Firstly thanks to all of you who have read my blog (c114,000 up from 78,000 last year) and followed me on Twitter (c3,800 up from 3,570 last year).

This blog has been going for 5 years now and this is the 500th blog post! In that time I've reviewed over 1,300 whiskies! Let's review 2021!

#BTC16 #BlindDrams Tasting Notes

These are my tasting notes from the Blind Tasting Consortium's 16th #BlindDrams evening.

These drams were picked by Ben @WhiskyWithMolly

Core Range: Bunnahabhain

Continuing the series of posts showing a distillery's core range of bottlings.

This time looking at Bunnahabhain

#BTC14 #BlindDrams Tasting Notes

 These are my tasting notes from the Blind Tasting Consortium's 14th #BlindDrams evening.

These drams were picked by Callum @glen_scotia & Kate @kccjf

#BTC13 #BlindDrams Tasting Notes

These are my tasting notes from the Blind Tasting Consortium's 13th #BlindDrams evening.

These drams were picked by Paul @derekcuster