It’s Christmas time and that means I get to once again enjoy my (favourite) advent calendar – the Whisky Advent Calendar! Each day I’ll update the post with the tasting notes of that day’s whisky.
Tag: Islay
James Eadie “Black Lion” Caol Ila
An absolute killer expression from Caol Ila – one of my favourite distilleries!
Whisky Advent 2021
Two years since the last whisky advent calendar – I drank a lot of good scotch in 2020, just none of it coming from a calendar in December. This year I decided I’d explore Kensington Wine Market’s Whisky Advent Calendar and will post my tasting notes of each day’s dram here. I’m ready (and I hope you are too) so let’s go!
Scotch Tasting: Five from the Carn Mor Strictly Limited Range
Since the beginning of the pandemic, I’ve had a bit more time – okay, a lot more time – to acquire and sample scotch. This tasting of five different whiskies happened over two days separated by four months. Certainly a far cry from the regular way of doing things but, these days, things are anything but regular.
Whisky Advent 2017
I’ve been waiting for months (11 to be precise) to dive into Secret Spirits’ fourth edition of the Whisky Advent Calendar. This year is bound to be exciting as I’m off to explore 25 different expressions of whisky including those from 10 independent bottlers. Jonathan Bray publishes his tasting notes over at singlemalting.com so please head over there to see what he has to say about each one. Onto the whisky!
Scotch Advent 2016
It’s Scotch Advent time again! Oh my am I excited and this…