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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This is going to be another fine pairing. Mostly because followers of The Macallan are also big fans of the GlenDronach. These distilleries are from the same region [although the GlenDronach has been re-classified as a Highland whisky] and produce a fantastic single malt pretty much in the same style. Although The Macallan has seriously […]
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 […]
I got a bit over-excited about the Berry Bros. & Rudd dram appearing in my tasting journey. I’m a big fan of this oldest wine and spirit merchant from London and consider myself very lucky that I can simply walk over to the shop. The staff is friendly and accommodating, and I always find myself […]
Two Drams A Day 