Tasting notes: Bowmore Oloroso Hand Fill 13-year-old Wednesday 6th April 2016. Blustery, blue sky day with showers and wind from the West.Today, I tasted Bowmore’s self-fill cask. It is 13 YO 54% abv. abv means ‘alcohol by volume’.This means there is...
Whisky Marketing is so off piste...d There are two types of people, Buyers & Drinkers. They are emphatically NOT the same thing ~ although, like a good conundrum, they CAN be the same thing!The marketing demographic for the new whisky drinker is the 28 year old,...
Tasting notes: Bumblebees By the Sea (SMWS) Bumblebees by the sea from Scotch Malt Whisky Society. Distilled Nov 28th 1984. 29 YO 57.6% abv (alcohol by volume) 1/548Wednesday 25th Novemeber 2015. Pitch dark, squalls earlier in the day, not too cold outside. Fire...
Tasting notes: Springbank 10 year old Tuesday 24th November 2015. 6 pm-ish. Pitch dark, bloody freezing, wild, wet, windy day on Wild and Magic Islay. No fire on yet in the house.As the dram is poured into the glass there are a few cheeky wee bubbles which quickly...
The Week That Was: Whisky Course Islay Pt II Wednesday afternoon, saw us leaving Kilchoman Distillery and heading to Port Ellen for the SECOND whisky tasting of the day ~ an exclusive Scotch Malt Whisky Society Tasting hosted by John McCheyne. Our guest for the...
