Bruichladdich Port Charlotte Triple Review – The OBs

Thanks to /u/throzen and /u/scotchable for these drams. This last year I’ve done the unthinkable: I made a 31 part multi review. I ended up learning a lot about my own reviews from writing and drinking that. For one, there is such thing as too much of a good thing. As well, I should split up my multi reviews […]

Glenburgie SMWS 71.41 “Curious and intriguing”

It’s an odd situation to talk about an up and coming distillery. On the one hand, reviewers are a bunch of vain people who think everyone reads them. I, myself, am amongst this group, and you can thank god for that. Our vanity is fuelled by reviewing whiskies we enjoy to say “Hey, someone else […]

Bruichladdich Port Charlotte PC7 Sin An Doigh Ileach

Thanks to /u/devoz for sharing this one with me. So I’m with Devoz and he thinks “Hey, TOModera has skipped some Port Charlottes. I better remedy that.” And like any playthrough of any Final Fantasy game, he has plenty of remedies at the end of the day. Bruichladdich Port Charlotte PC7 Sin An Doigh Ileach is the 3rd […]

Macallan 15 1992 Murray McDavid

Second night of tasting, second night of taking time away from the pile of Bruichladdich Port Charlotte samples that scream out all at once and then continue screaming because my tongue hasn’t shot laser beams at them yet. What, how do you taste whisky? So I sat down, and /u/devoz offered me a Macallan. Pretty nice on […]

Bunnahabhain SMWS 10.104 “Wild and untamed”

The first Bunnahabhain I had was the 12 year old. I had heard good things. There was a community review. Why not, right? I was let down. And it bugged me, as others enjoyed it quite a bit. Since then, I’ve had more and more Bunnahabhain, and I’ll say this: Don’t judge it based on […]

Ardmore SMWS 66.93 “Smoked Porridge”

Growing up, as one does when one lives in a Rockwell painting, I had lots of porridge. I never knew about Quaker Oats packages, or the different flavours. I knew that it was cooked on the stove, it was thick, and I covered it in brown sugar. Now my time living as Oliver with parents […]

Compass Box 25th Anniversary Kensington Wine Market

I’ve written before about Kensington Wine Market, a store in Alberta that has quite a whisky selection and is one of the places that I hit up when I’m out west. I’ve also written quite a bit about Compass Box. Lately I’ve seen a sad drop in quality from their offerings, however I still like […]

Amrut 8 Greedy Angels II

Whisky has had an interesting effect on culture. Let’s take religion, and the use of the term “Angel’s Share”. Before people really understood alcohol and how it evaporated, they made up an idea that the angel’s were stealing some of it. Now either they really believed this or someone who’s a lot more witty than […]

The Whisky Agency Three Rivers Tokyo Blended Malt

I’ve written a few times of an amazing blended malt. And it would be me aiming low and hitting if I copied that here. Whiskies that were under strength, from the 70s, that were thought to be unsellable. And someone far smarter, more talented than I took those whiskies, and has made many blends after […]

Amrut Spectrum 004

Took a break from doing multi reviews of a whole bunch of Port Charlotte. And of course, by “took a break”, I mean I showed up to a tasting, where additional whisky was being served. Amrut Spectrum 004 is the second Spectrum on the market, made by those wacky Indian whisky makers out in… well, India. […]