Welcome back to another side-by-side tasting of two three single malts, where I get to really appreciate the slight difference between them as I sip on this whisky and write down these words. Today is a special one, my friends, as I have three different bottlings of Scotch by the same distillery of the same […]
Welcome back to another fine pairing of two single malts, where I try to pick some very closely-related whiskies and then tease out the tiny differences to really understand them. I’m writing this in real-time as I taste this Scotch side-by-side (okay, I may return a few days later to make some minor corrections on […]
Welcome back to another instalment of my never-ending journey of pairing two single malts and trying to find out which one I like more and, most importantly, why. This is an ongoing refinement of my understanding of Scotch whiskies [and more], and hopefully, you’ll learn something along the way as well. In today’s tasting, I’m […]
Up for today’s tasting is a pair of single malts from Bruichladdich. I’m pretty excited about this one, folks, mainly because I think that my personal comparison pick should create a perfect companion. We’ll see how that goes. The first dram is courtesy of the Cask Explorer‘s Advent Calendar (Diamond Edition). It’s a 26-year-old single […]
It’s Sunday night, and I am setting up a tasting just for myself, a bit of sparkling water and some [new] music in the background before I go out for dinner and start a week anew. Sigh. I don’t even want to think about the fact that this year is almost over. Oh well. At […]
Last night I went to [another] tasting hosted to Soho’s Milroy’s showcasing Elixir Distillers‘ two Scotch whisky brands: Port Askaig and Elements of Islay. I was initially going to compare these side by side and cover them as a regular writeup on here [after all, this is the concept behind these musings], but since instead […]
Two Drams A Day 