#BTC29 #BlindDrams Tasting Notes

These are my tasting notes from the Blind Tasting Consortium's 29th #BlindDrams evening.

These drams were picked by Paul @pswhisky

Duncan Taylor @TweetTastings

Duncan Taylor @dtcwhiskies recently held a @TweetTastings with @TheWhiskyWire featuring the Black Bull range and a couple of single casks.

I was lucky enough to be picked - here's my thoughts and those of a few friends!

Side by side : A GlenAllachie flight

Sometimes you connect with a distillery and sometimes you don't @TheGlenAllachie is one of the latter for me.

Sample swaps, over the last few months, have delivered a number of their drams so let's try them side by side.

Duncan Taylor An Iconic Speyside Octave

Established in 1938, Duncan Taylor is an independent whisky merchant with one of the largest privately held collections of aged single malt and single grain Scotch whisky casks.

One part of their range is Octaves, let's find out a little more:

Side by side : An indie Royal Brackla flight

The largest of Bacardi's John Dewer & Son's distilleries sees most of it's maturation taking place off site and is used mainly for Dewar's blends.

There aren't too many distillery bottlings (although recently they released three aged sherry cask bottlings) but there are quite a few indies - here I'll try 3.

Side by side : Independent Linkwood

On today's Side by side we're looking at two independently bottled Linkwoods. It's not a whisky you see very much, I can only think of one distillery bottling I've tried, all the rest I've tried or seen have been indies.

Let see how they compare side by side!

Virtual tasting: All Hail The Grain with Duncan Taylor

"Do you fancy another tasting?" seems to be a constant question during this period of lockdown and there seems to be a whole lot more around.

This time around I think it was @TheWhiskyNovice who asked the question, "What are we drinking?" was my reply....