In this write-up, I want to take a moment and summarize my experience through the journey of 24 Scotch Whiskies, courtesy of Drinks By The Dram, which I purchased at the end of last year for about £150. This was my very first “Advent Calendar,” offering behind each numbered door a wax-sealed 30ml bottle of […]
I will begin this write-up by confessing that this tasting is a “redo”. I originally compared these two drams side by side about a week ago, at the very end of my journey through the 2021st edition of the Scotch Whisky Advent Calendar. I finally finished it all (!), and the very last pour was […]
I’m nearly finished with the Scotch Whisky Advent Calendar presented last year by Drinks By The Dram. Yesterday, I was impressed with the inclusion of The Macallan 12-year-old Double Cask, and today’s 23rd dram of this journey is a mysterious Darkness 8-Year-Old with a Sherry Finish. I seem to recognize this label and quickly jump […]
Welcome to another entry in my journey of comparing two whiskies side by side and picking a favourite. Hopefully, we’ll also learn something along the way. So if you like this, stick around for other writeups! For today’s tasting, I am having The Macallan side by side. This is a fantastic single malt, the one […]
So far, most of my whisky tastings have been conducted at home, except for a few I’ve attended in person (for example, see this Port Askaig and Elements of Islay tasting). There’s a certain level of control around these as I set up my tray with the Glencarins and water. But there are also occasions when I’m […]
So many times, I’ve celebrated a successful pairing. Perhaps the pinnacle of this [so far] was in my post last night, where two of my beloved distilleries and their expressions went head to head, and then I called a draw. But what about failures? We don’t seem to share them. We want to be perceived […]
It’s been about a week since my last pairing, not that I have not been trying, mind you. I even order two drams in a restaurant to find out the subtle differences in the whiskies that I love. The night prior, I’ve celebrated Burns Night with the newly found friends at London’s Soho Whisky Club […]
I’ve got another fantastic pairing for you today! Even as I write this a bit after the tasting, I am unsure which single malt will win this round. It was a tough one, folks! Let’s see if I am able to gather all of my thoughts, outline the very slight differences between these two, and […]
If I was excited about yesterday’s tasting, then today’s is a bit of a letdown. I keep returning to this one bottle I have in my collection, thinking that somehow I will one day change my mind and peel apart something new that I haven’t noticed before. Sometimes that works, as I discover nuances in […]
Right off the start, I’d like to admit that this is an interesting pairing. Highland Park is the northernmost distillery located in Kirkwall on the Orkney Islands [so it’s an Island single malt]. Although it uses local peat, it’s not as smokey as the Scotch from Islay, so it feels almost unfair to compare it […]
Two Drams A Day 