Welcome back to another round of RECYCLED, where I quickly review the bottles leaving my shelves and decide whether I should repurchase them. Then you, too, can learn from my mistakes and treasures. It seems I polished off quite a few in a short while, but plenty of these were pretty low for over a […]
Welcome back to another entry in my journey of whisky, in particular, Scotch single malts, where I taste two unique expressions side-by-side, take down some notes on how they compare to each other, pick out a favourite, and hopefully learn something new in the process. I think it’s unlikely that you’ve landed on this page […]
Here we are, folks, getting ready for another fine pairing of two single malts to see if we can peel apart those intricate layers that make up the unique profile of each whisky. Up for a tasting is the sixth dram from Cask Explorer‘s Advent Calendar, Diamon Edition, and it’s a 22-year-old Scotch from a […]
Well, well, well… if it isn’t the trustworthy Undisclosed bottle from Berry Bros. & Rudd that is making an appearance again for today’s tasting, to be used as a benchmark in comparing the Glenturret single malt by the very same age. OK, I’ll also “warm up” with a small sample of Glenturret 12-year-old, which I […]
The quietude at the end of the year is a good time to take stock of my whisky collection and see where I want to go with it next. One of the biggest issues I have at the moment is the number of open bottles. By my calculations [and whiskybase tracking], it’s approaching 60. That’s […]
I feel honoured and privileged to have been invited to the Blind Tasting Consortium organized by Brian’s Malt Musings. This is basically a group of friends who swap samples and try to discover what they are while sharing their thoughts on Twitter. So I’m a bit of an outsider, but I feel like I fit […]
In today’s tasting, I am comparing two single malts from the Speyside region of Scotland. The first dram is from BenRiach, and it comes courtesy of my Scotch Whisky Advent Calendar from Cask Explorers, the Diamond Edition. I have already popped open the first two entries from the Emerald (it was the Glenfarclas 15) and […]
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 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 