I love being able to try before you buy. It’s one of the reasons why places like the SMWS and other great whisky bars are some of my favourite places. You can have a dram of a whisky you’ve never tried from a distillery you like or even try a whisky from distillery you’ve never [...]
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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 »19 year old Tomatin from Master of Malt
February 2nd, 2010 Mike I am standing in my kitchen having just got round to opening todays mail – cheers to Michelle for letting me know I had some just after 11 o’clock at night – and I find a brown package. And inside is the strangest bubbliest air inflated packaging I have seen. Once I get this off [...]
Balvenie Sweepstake and Madeira Cask launch
November 27th, 2009 Bill Regular readers will recall my tasting notes on the Balvenie 17 year-old Madeira Cask a little while back. This whisky has now been launched in the US with a two-night event at New York’s Eleven Madison Park Restaurant where invited guests were given tastings of the entire 17 year old range with the Madeira taking [...]
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 [...]