Today I return to the beginning of this journey when I tasted the very first offering from the Scotch Whisky Advent Calendar. It was a dram of Aerolite Lyndsay bottled by The Character Of Islay Whisky Company, and I was pleasantly surprised in its delivery. This was now precisely two months ago (I posted my […]
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 am very excited about today’s tasting! Mostly because I’m pairing the Mortlach 13-year-old, which is a natural cask strength single malt from the refill and virgin oak casks, with a very similar style single malt from the Balvenie, which is a 12-year-old first-fill [same as “virgin”] single barrel. Both are from Speyside and pretty […]
I’m pretty excited about today’s pairing. First of all, because it’s from one of my only recently discovered and immediately newly favourite distilleries, and second, because I get to compare an entry-level distillery bottling against an independent, albeit a much older single cask whisky. It already sounds like the 22-year-old will win this round, but […]
My next dram on this whisky journey is from Balvenie, and it’s a favourite of mine – a 12-year-old DoubleWood, a natural go-to, regardless of the occasion. Let’s try it next to this First Fill Single Barrel which I just noticed in the shop!
Two Drams A Day 