Up for a tasting today is the 13th dram from That Boutique-y Whisky Company (TBWC) Advent Calendar of 2022, and it’s a 9-year-old Blair Athol bottled at 50.4% ABV. I pair it with a 12-year-old Oban from Diageo Special Releases of 2021, bottled at a cask strength of 56.2%
So many times, I’ve celebrated a successful pairing. Perhaps the pinnacle of this [so far] was in my post last night, where two of my beloved distilleries and their expressions went head to head, and then I called a draw. But what about failures? We don’t seem to share them. We want to be perceived […]
In this roundup, I explore two of Diageo‘s 2021 Special Releases, titled Legends Untold. This is their 20th annual instalment (the series began in 2001), highlighting the diversity of their owned distilleries while offering some hidden gems and never before released bottlings. This time, they also unified the series with label illustrations from Ken Taylor, […]
Two Drams A Day 