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!

Jura (Flavour Edition) @TweetTastings

Continuing their regular appearances on @TweetTastings recently was @jurawhisky with a look at their Flavour Edition range.

This includes the 10yo, Seven Wood and newly released Red Wine and Rum Cask finishes, let's see what they are like.

The Whisky Cellar @TweetTastings

@TheWhiskyWire continues his 2021 @TweetTastings teaming up with independent bottler @whisky_cellar for the second time to launch their 2nd Release.

Six bottles from the new range along with a branded notebook and @MiaWoodCrafts cask pen were included - let's see what the drams were like!

BTC9 #BlindDrams Tasting Notes

These are my tasting notes from the Blind Tasting Consortium's 9th #BlindDrams evening.

These drams were picked by Richard @MckWhisky

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!

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.

Jura Travel Retail @TweetTastings

Earlier in the year I was lucky enough to take part in a @TweetTasting of @JuraWhisky's newly relaunched range - and I really liked them! Steve then went and arranged a tasting of their new Global Travel Retail (GTR) range so I knew I had to take part!

It's a range of five sherried whiskies called The Jura Sherry Cask Collection, using slightly peated spirit they've been matured in ex-Bourbon barrels before being finished in PX casks which have held sherry for different lengths of time. They are all named after features on Jura near the distillery.

The new range consists of:

• The Sound - 42.5% NAS finished in casks previously containing 15yo PX
• The Road - 43.6% NAS finished in casks previously containing 20yo PX
• The Bay - 44% NAS finished in casks previously containing 15yo PX
• The Loch - 44.5% NAS finished in casks previously containing 30yo PX
• The Paps - 45.6% 19yo finished in casks previously containing 40yo PX

Jura @TweetTastings

I had my fingers crossed that I'd get picked for this TweetTasting as Jura have recently revamped their whole range with a very mixed response, I've always thought they have been OK, nothing to blow your socks off but a nice dram nevertheless. I've always had a soft spot for the old Prophecy, one of the first bottles I bought and I'm sure the first peated one.

In April of this year Whyte and Mackay relaunched the Jura range saying "Jura is on the brink of something quite remarkable…" So let's see what the new range is like and whether it can provide a replacement for the Prophecy?

A beautifully presented sample box arrived in the post but what were the contents like?

On the night itself the drams were poured and we started sampling!

#BlindTasting Series 4 - Part 1

Back after an extended Summer break the #BlindTasting gang are all ready to try 15 new drams, if you haven't followed us before you can catch up with the previous series here.

All the samples have arrived