Who says that you can’t do a quick little pairing while away at a resort hotel? Especially when they have an interesting selection of Scotch, which I wouldn’t have otherwise picked for my shelves? I’ve learned my lessons from the restaurant tastings – so I don’t let the bartenders just bring me over the drams, […]
With everything that’s currently going on in the world, it’s a little hard to stay focused. It’s a bit difficult to celebrate pretty much anything in my life, even as there are positive vibes all around me. Whisky becomes a solace and a friend, there in times of the good and the ugly. And yes, […]
I finally took a complete stock of my current whisky collection, and as it stands, I have somewhere 50+ bottles that are _open_. Yes, the total count is somewhere north of 150 [not counting the bottles I am storing at a warehouse, following my auction wins], and on about a third of them, I’ve popped […]
In today’s write-up, I’m covering some drams from Benromach. The five whiskies have arrived at my doorstep courtesy of The Spirits Embassy for an online tasting night, live via Zoom [and recorded for offline viewing later]. If there is anything positive to be extracted from this ongoing pandemic, it’s that the businesses across a variety […]
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 […]
For today’s pairing, I sort of cheated a little bit. I usually drink two drams, but today I have all three. Alas, it’s all for science, you see! I had an un-opened dram of Bowmore 15-Year-Old that came with my Scotch Whisky Advent Calendar, which was the “next in the queue” for this journey, but […]
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 […]
Well, it’s the end of 2021, and although the world is out there celebrating “something”, inside it’s just another night, which will roll into a new day, and so on, till our home remains within the orbit. So instead of doomsday thoughts, I choose to focus on the whisky. For this round, I select two […]
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 