#BTC32 #BlindDrams Tasting Notes

 These are my tasting notes from the Blind Tasting Consortium's 32nd #BlindDrams evening.

These drams were picked by Duncan @whiskytip

#BTC30 #BlindDrams Tasting Notes

 These are my tasting notes from the Blind Tasting Consortium's 30th #BlindDrams evening.

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

Side by side: Fettercairn's Warehouse 2 Batches

Over the last couple of years @FettercairnWh have been releasing bottlings labelled as "Warehouse 2" - a selection of small batches featuring interesting combinations of the casks matured within its walls.

Let's try them!

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.

Whyte & MacKay #TweetTastings

@whyteandmackay shared four of their singe malts from their portfolio in a recent @TweetTastings

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

Virtual tasting: Fettercairn from The Spirit Embassy

The @Spirits_Embassy organise regular virtual tastings, with either their own or a distillery representative hosting.

For January this was a @FettercairnWh tasting hosted by Andrew Lennie @lennie_ba

A.D. Rattray @TweetTastings

@ADRattrayWhisky Whisky celebrated the release of their 65th Cask Collection with a @TweetTastings with @TheWhiskyWire

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

Whyte & Mackay @TweetTastings #WhyteChristmas

Recently Whyte & Mackay celebrated their 175th Anniversary and released a 50yo Blend... but with a difference! It wasn't available to buy anywhere, if you bought a bottle of the normal blend you could enter a draw to win a bottle of the 50yo - a brilliant idea. Or if you were really lucky and got selected for the #WhyteChristmas @TweetTastings you received a 50ml sample!

I was lucky and received the set but struggled to wait until the night of the tasting!

Fettercairn 12yo PX

Just before Christmas last year I got to try 4 drams from a little known, to me anyway, Highland distillery called Fettercairn - you can read all about it here. Located halfway between Dundee and Aberdeen it properly out of the way!

After the tasting I contacted the distillery to ask a few questions and clear up a few points on their website. I got the impression they weren't quite switched on to social media.

Review of my whisky year - 2018

First of all thank you to all the people who have read my blog (c29,000 up from 16,500 last year) and followed me on Twitter (c1,680 up from 900 last year).

My highlights of 2018 were:

Fettercairn @TweetTastings

Fettercairn is a distillery you might not of heard of, it's tucked away in that little category of 'hard working distillery making malt for blends'. In this case it's been around since 1824 with the malt going into Whyte and Mackay's blends. Some single malts have been released over the years, the most recent around 2009 with 2 NAS releases named Fior and Fasque (the name of the Fettercairn estate).

The distillery, which is open to visitors, is located halfway between Dundee and Aberdeen.