#BTC58 #BlindDrams Tasting Notes

These are my tasting notes and results from the Blind Tasting Consortium's 58th #BlindDrams evening.

These drams were picked by Andy @RoyEasing

#BTC55 #BlindDrams Tasting Notes

These are my tasting notes and results from the Blind Tasting Consortium's 55th #BlindDrams evening.

These drams were picked by John @jwbassman.bsky.social

#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

Review of my whisky year - 2024

Firstly thanks to all of you who have read my blog (c296,000 up from 228,000 last year) and followed me on social media.

This blog has been going for 8 years now and this is the 759th blog post! In that time I've reviewed over 2,060 whiskies! Let's review 2024!

#BTC44 #BlindDrams Tasting Notes

These are my tasting notes and results from the Blind Tasting Consortium's 44th #BlindDrams evening.

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

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.

#BTC42 #BlindDrams Tasting Notes

These are my tasting notes and results from the Blind Tasting Consortium's 42nd #BlindDrams evening.

These drams were picked by Patrick @LeaskPatrick

#BTC38 #BlindDrams Tasting Notes

These are my tasting notes and results from the Blind Tasting Consortium's 38th #BlindDrams evening.

These drams were picked by Andrew @PadWhisky

#BTC37 #BlindDrams Tasting Notes

 These are my tasting notes and results from the Blind Tasting Consortium's 37th #BlindDrams evening.

These drams were picked by John @jwbassman_

The Whisky Cellar @TweetTasting

@whisky_cellar chose a @TweetTastings to launch some of their new 7th series Private Cellars Selection and Pintail bottlings.

Here's my thoughts and those of a few friends!

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:

#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 - Other distilleries

As well as the four main warehouse tastings we also visited Caol Ila, @Ardnahoe, @LagavulinWhisky, @Ardbeg and Port Ellen.

Where we took the obligatory photos!

Virtual tasting: Firkin Whisky Company

A conversation with  @FirkinWhiskyCo led to a zoom tasting with the #RatFans #WolfPack #BlindPack #RaasayPossie #FirkinDrammers

Lets see what they 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!

TBWC Advent Calendar 2021 - Dram reviews

Those great people at @DrinksByTheDram sent me an Advent Calendar for the run up to Christmas! For the whisky fans amongst us this makes much more sense than a chocolate one!

Now the idea with an Advent Calendar is that you open 1 door each day from the 1st December through to Christmas Eve... But please enjoy your whisky responsibly! Sometimes it may not possible to open a dram each day, you could share with mates or save a couple to enjoy at the weekend?

Side by side : Caol Ila Palo Cortado from James Eadie

Palo Cortado has been building a reputation over the last year or so as the 'new' thing in sherry cask matured or finished whisky.

In this blog I'll be looking at two Caol Ila's finished in Palo Cortado casks.

Core Range: Caol Ila

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

This time looking at Caol Ila