LIVING THE DRAM
On Wednesday 24th May, courtesy of the good folk at Chester Beer and Wine, I recently attended a Mackmyra tasting evening. The session took a couple of hours and saw the assembled collective taste our way through 7 of Mackmyra's current expressions. The evening was curated by a locally-based rep, Alex Johnson, who really packed... Continue Reading →
Being a whisky enthusiast, I've signed up to many blogs and many, many more twitter accounts to share thoughts, experiences and notes. One aspect that I've been itching to participate in is a live tweet tasting and luckily enough in April, a message came through from Steve at The Whisky Wire to say that the... Continue Reading →
Based just outside of Glasgow city centre, Auchentoshan (pronounced 'ock-un-tosh-un') prides itself on the purity created via its triple distillation. This process and the local water source result in Auchentoshan producing relatively delicate whiskies, distinctive of the lowland regions also antiqautedly referred to as "ladies' drams". It is the flavours from this process and their... Continue Reading →
Dalwhinnie is based in the Highlands and sits within the core Diageo family of scotch whiskies. What the distillery seeks to master with this tipple is the art of the balanced dram. Not too peaty or too rich, and it sits comfortably within the centre space of the Diageo flavour map. At 15 years old,... Continue Reading →
I don't usually blog about food, but tonight seems like an appropriate time to break that rule. It's 25th Jan and I've had an entire English city to play with and a haggis to hunt down... and it proved to be harder than you'd think. After having enquired in multiple establishments, I was faced with... Continue Reading →
It's around this time of the year that, without fail, there are a few more people heading down the spirits aisle in your local supermarket. Whether it is a purchase for themselves or someone else, whisky sales sky rocket at this time of the year, and rightly so. One of the (great) results is that... Continue Reading →
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