Discover Whisky

This is a quick post to say cheers to the guys from the angels’ share and from Bowmore for a fun night last night. WE had a graet little tasting of the Bowmore 12 year old, the Bowmore 15 year old and the Bowmore 18 year old. Each of these was appealing to everyone - my personal favourite was the 15 year old.

After I rake through my notes and speak to Bill we’ll get the reviews up.

Slainte

I was reading today at the Scotch Blog about the whisky glasses from Glencairn crystal. I don’t have any of these but am going to have to go and get some asap.

But it got me thinking about whether there is a real benefit to using a whisky tasting glass against using a traditional “tumbler” (a glass). I have a small collection of glasses including some for Bruichladdich that I somehow came by. But my favourite is a tasting glass for Rum that I got in St.Kitts whilst watching the cricket (Scotland didn’t have the best of time unfortunately). The tasting glass came with a bottle of the 23 year old Zacapa rum which is distilled in Guatemala.

In honour of this great little tasting glass we’re going to include a review of some rum in next couple of months. I’m thinking of maybe doing the El Dorado 15 year old which is a personal favourite.

As part of our efforts here to keep focussed and get information on whisky, tasting notes etc out as quickly as possible we’ve been working hard to develop our new posting schedule - so that all of our subscribers are able to get regular updates.

From February we’ll be doing two ‘core’ postings a week.

• Mondays - The Discover Whisky Weekly Digest
  • Look at Whisky News from the week that was
  • Look at up coming stories
  • Interviews
• Thursdays - Discover Whisky Tasting Notes
  • Review of a whisky every week

February Whisky Tastings

Over February we’ll be posting four brand new tastings of Malts from across Scotland - Bill’s focussing on Islay whiskies so everyone better keep him right!

1. Caol Ila Malt Whisky Review ¹
2. Ancnoc 12 year old Review ²
3. Ardbeg ³
4. Glenmorangie ‘Qunita Ruban’ ⁴

That will bring us up to the end of February and we can start saving up our pennies to get some new reviews/tasting notes for March - I’ve got my eye on doing a tasting of Cragganmore ⁵ in March.

Thanks from Discover Whisky in January

Thanks this month go to the guys at Spencerfield Spirit - I’ve been chatting to Alex by email and on the phone and hope to get over to Fife to meet them. They’ve also got a blog - good to see that whisky is becoming big online and that lots of people are starting to get involved.

Footnotes

1. Caol Ila Website - they don’t seem to have a website so link points to an information page about Caol Ila
2. anCnoc Website
3. Ardbeg Website
4. Glenmorangie Website
5. Cragganmore Website - no Cragganmore website so this link points to an information page too

Slainte

Once a month we’re going to try and list some things we’ve found online that we think are fun, interesting, strange or just great online about Scottish Whisky. This month we’re going to start with Blogs. It seems the best place to start and let you know all about the online whisky community.

Whisky Blogs

1. Whisky Tag -  This was one of the first blogs I started to read. Its a good nice easy read and makes learning about whisky simple. Never too heavy and always perfect for lunch time reading
2. Nonjatta - Nonjatta is about Japanese whisky. Its not about Scottish whisky -but its still a favourite. Talks about a number of drinks from Japan but mainly whisky. Sometimes funny but always just perfect for sunny day browsing.
   
3. Dr.Whisky - Very informative blog - great tasting notes if you’re looking to buy a new whisky this place will always give fair and frank reviews - images next to whisky are nice (note to self must remember to ask that web geek I know how to put images into this thing)

Ok thats all for today hope you find some good information in these three Whisky blogs. If you know of any we should be looking at please leave us a note in the comments.