I would generally avoid a blended whisky at all costs, too many Christmas and New Years where I’ve been offered a whisky of generally suspect vintage which has been lying at the back of a cupboard for longer than the owner cares to remember and I have to sit and try not to gag like [...]
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SMWS February Tasting – Olaf excels himself with 5 fascinating single malts
February 12th, 2010 
Bill Hardly seems any time at all since the last Scotch Malt Whisky Society tasting at Queen St. but here we are again. Sadly Mike got sent off to London on business at the last minute – he missed at least two cracking malts. Now before we go any further I’m going to talk about naming, [...]
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Tags: Caol Ila, Glenfarclas, Glenkinchy, Glenugie, SMWS, Tormore 
No Comments »SMWS November tasting (part 2)
November 8th, 2009 Bill Continuing the tasting notes we come to the third (not counting the bonus one) of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society’s offerings. Bottling 35.32 34 years old, 55.1%, 183 bottles Colour Light Nose Pear drops, liquorice, someone mentioned spangles – a real blast from the past. I immediately started to feel that this one would not [...]
SMWS November tasting (part 1)
November 7th, 2009 Bill On Thursday Mike and I met up at the Scotch Malt Whisky Society’s rooms in Edinburgh’s Queen St for their second tasting for whisky bloggers. This matched up with their quarterly release of new bottlings – always a major event for their members. Our fellow bloggers were a mix of familiar faces and new, and [...]
No longer a compromise – Bowmore
July 30th, 2008 Bill Bowmore used to be regarded in some quarters as piggy-in-the-middle; a bit of a compromise between the two extremes of the Islay tastes, but certainly in recent years this seems to me to be rather unfair. I’ve enjoyed it on a number of occasions, particularly since a visit to Islay some years ago, and Mike [...]
Blair Athol – A brief visit to the Highlands
April 25th, 2008 Bill I’m taking a little detour from my Islay survey to venture into Mike’s territory. Blair Atholl village is situated in the rolling hills of Perthshire. There is a famous castle and the village contains an old water powered grain mill. Along with Dunkeld, Pitlochry (which is actually where the distillery is) and the Pass of [...]
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