#BTC48 #BlindDrams Tasting Notes

These are my tasting notes and results from the Blind Tasting Consortium's 48th #BlindDrams evening.

These drams were picked by Damian @newdramrising

Side by side : Initial trio from Saltire Rare Malt

Established in 2022, @MaltRare1494 Saltire Rare Malt Whisky Company are a new Independent Bottler out of Falkland in Fife.

Their first trio of releases include Glen Moray, Aultmore and Tamnavulin bottlings.

A Claxton's flight

I'm sure everyone knows @ClaxtonsSpirits an indie bottler who's bottles really mess up the spacing on your whisky shelves!

Their unusual square bottles really standout but they take up a lot of shelf space!

DrivenByDrams Speyside Tour - Benromach

The first day of the DrivenByDrams gang Speyside trip had us heading for Benromach.

We passed a few distilleries on the way!

#BTC35 #BlindDrams Tasting Notes

These are my tasting notes from the Blind Tasting Consortium's 35th #BlindDrams evening.

These drams were picked by Duncan @newdramrising

#BTC33 #BlindDrams Tasting Notes

 These are my tasting notes from the Blind Tasting Consortium's 33rd #BlindDrams evening.

These drams were picked by Ben @WhiskyWithMolly

#BTC23 #BlindDrams Tasting Notes

These are my tasting notes from the Blind Tasting Consortium's 23rd #BlindDrams evening.

These drams were picked by Duncan @socialdrammer

Core Range: Glen Moray

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

This time looking at Glen Moray

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!

World Problem Polls (#DingleDilemma)

Once upon a time there was a small distillery in Speyside distilling some lovely whisky which went by the same Glen Moray. In 2019 their Master Distiller decided he was working too hard and needed a change.... he retired to the west coast of Ireland.

His equally hard working wife took the job of Master Distiller at a nearby distillery by the name of Dingle.

Whisky 'machinery' - the Malt Mill

A new series looking at some of the 'machinery' used in a distillery to create whisky - this time the Malt Mill.

Glen Moray's Porteus Malt Mill

I've covered the basic process of creating whisky here, but I'm going to explore the machinery a little more in this series.

Side by side: Battle of the Tawny Ports

I'm a sucker for Tawny Port cask finished whiskies, and if the spirit is peated you can just take my money!

In this blog I'm comparing five of my favourites, lets see which comes out on top!

Peated Port Blind Tasting with @TheWhiskeyChaps

A message from @TheWhiskyChaps arrived asking if I'd like to run a #BlindTasting session for them - how could I say no?

I picked my favourite style of whisky - Peated Port Cask Finish and invited them to guess what they were!

BTC6 #BlindDrams Tasting Notes

These are my tasting notes from the Blind Tasting Consortium's 6th #BlindDrams evening.

These drams were picked by Chris @chris_f74

#BlindTasting Series 6 Episode 2

Series 6 Episode 2

After a winter hibernation the #BlindTasting team were back to continue Series 6, trying to work out what the 5 drams they'd swapped were and to tell what we thought of them without knowing where they were from. #NoPreconceivedIdeas! If you haven't followed us before you can catch up with all the previous series here.

Glen Moray @TweetTastings

An annual favourite amongst the @TweetTastings fraternity is the one from @GlenMorayDist, not only is it great whisky, great presentation and great staff, they also give you huge sample bottles!

This year the box contained four 100ml bottles, two recent additions to the core range and two single cask bottlings.

End of an era? - Glen Moray

I first heard the news back in July, but it wasn't made public until August, @Graham__Coull and @Fay_Coull would be leaving @GlenMorayDist and travelling across the Irish Sea to @DingleWhiskey

Just in case you aren't aware Graham has been Master Distiller at Glen Moray for 14 years, only their fifth Master Distiller.

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:

#BlindTasting Series 4 - Review

Series 4 of #BlindTasting has recently finished and as usual I'll post a summary. There had been a bit of a gap from Series 3 and this one extended longer than we thought it would - pressures of work!
This one, like all the rest, has brought up a few surprised with the five of us trying to identify 15 mystery drams through smell and taste, having #NoPreconceivedIdeas to sway our opinions.

Mini-reviews: Orchard delight!

This was a sample from @iheartwhisky of TBWC's Glen Moray 10yo Batch 2