After all our hard work making the barrels, and touring the distillery, it was finally time to sample some of the fruits of our labour (or rather, the labour of others over the past decades). This is what we whisky writers like to call ‘the whole point of the exercise’. And what a fantastic tasting… Continue reading The Glenrothes Adventure part 4: The Inner Sanctum
Category: Tasting
A tasting in a big empty room – part 2: Whyte & Mackay
The Friday night tasting for the Dubber and Clutch St Andrews Golf Open Whisky Fiasco 2010 was a selection of rare and boutique bottlings from Whyte and Mackay – including three new expressions from Isle of Jura and the award-winning 30 year-old blend. Dalmore 18 Gorgeous. Dubber was tempted to just stay on this one… Continue reading A tasting in a big empty room – part 2: Whyte & Mackay
A tasting in a big empty room – part 1: Douglas Laing
On the bright side of our St Andrews whisky tasting debacle, we did get to sample some very fine drams. Here’s what we made of the Douglas Laing & Co Ltd selection on Thursday night: Auchentoshan 10 year-old (Provenance bottling) A good way to start the evening, and a great way to open up the… Continue reading A tasting in a big empty room – part 1: Douglas Laing
St Andrews: a whisky fiasco
It was the 150th anniversary of the Golf Open at St Andrews. We came, we saw, and we were utterly conquered. We may well go down in history as the hosts of the best, most well-organised, well-promoted, best-stocked and WORST-attended whisky tastings of all time. And we have some very fine and expensive whisky left… Continue reading St Andrews: a whisky fiasco
Whisky tasting at St Andrews
We’re excited to announce that we’ll be doing a couple of tasting events in St Andrews during the golf open this week. Two nights of the very best of Scottish culture, taking in the history and folklore surrounding some of Scotland’s finest drams. Thursday 15th July: This evening presents a wide selection of stunning malts… Continue reading Whisky tasting at St Andrews
Penderyn on St David’s Day
Single malt from Wales Partly to celebrate St David’s Day today – but mostly because it was long overdue, Clutch and I decided to try the samples of Penderyn that the Welsh Whisky company had kindly sent us. Nose: Custard, vanilla, tangerine, honey-roasted peanuts, tiny touch of smoke. Palate: Flumps. Seriously: Flumps. Also, condensed milk,… Continue reading Penderyn on St David’s Day
Manx
Don’t call it a whisky My housemate came back from the Isle of Man, and brought back a bottle of Manx. At first glance, we thought it was new make spirit – whisky that’s not old enough to be called whisky (3 years), but then we looked into it properly and were surprised to learn… Continue reading Manx
Back To The Future
Slàinte mhath! A very Happy New Year to you all. Although we’ve only just said farewell to last year, I’m going to ask you all to come on a journey with me back through time…. Cast your minds back to seven months ago, and some of you may recall that on the 12th June we… Continue reading Back To The Future
Merry New Year
Photo by practicalowl Hi – Compliments of the season and all that. We’ve been having a bit of a hiatus from the online whisky tastings for a little while. I’ve been travelling rather a lot these last six months, and Clutch has been altogether too wrapped up in the whole new dadhood thing. Plus, when… Continue reading Merry New Year
Frysk Hynder
I’ve been doing a little travel lately, and have found myself in some interesting places. And while the travel itself wasn’t whisky-related specifically, I did take it upon myself to at least inject a bit of a whisky theme into the proceedings. I was in the North of Holland doing some (un)consultancy and was taken… Continue reading Frysk Hynder