Aultmore 17 2014 Cadenhead Small Batch

Thanks to /u/ScotchGuy_TO for pouring me a sample. My buddy shows up to whisky tastings with lots, and lots of whiskies. Which I appreciate, because… well, look around. I like to make jokes, taking them much too far due to my inability to understand social cues and rampant belief that no, it’s everyone else that’s wrong. Mix […]

North of Scotland 50 1970 Douglas Laing Xtra Old Particular The Black Series

Thanks to /u/ScotchGuy_TO for sharing a dram with me (and splitting the bottle with me) for the year end tasting. I’m not really nice to single grain whiskies, which is probably because I’m not a fan of drinking solvent. Granted I’m also Canadian, and our whiskies are majority single grain that’s aged in a cold climate, so […]

Glenrothes 21 1996 A.D. Rattray Cask Collection

Thanks to boyd86 for pouring the sample as part of the “year-end” tasting we had (in April). End of year is typically when my group of friends and I show up with a nicer bottle of whisky than what we’d normally have. It’s a fun excuse to drink through the bigger bottles/bottle splits we’ve gathered. Because it’s […]

Lagavulin 12 2021 Special Release

This is the final of my 2021 Special Release review series. Where is the Lagavulin 26? Sitting on a shelf of someone who makes more money in a day than I’ll ever see in my life in a way that most people would find soul crushing, why do you ask? Thus we’re at the end. […]

Mortlach 13 2021 Special Release

This is another entry in the continuing series of reviews for the 2021 Special Releases from Diageo. I’ve debated a lot of things. Like what? Well I’m not going to immediately dismiss Diageo as quickly, though I’ll probably still be buying the independent bottles of what they make. That said… They still make this whisky. […]

Oban 12 2021 Special Release

This is a further continuation of reviewing the 2021 Special Releases from Diageo, save for one, because… well I wasn’t born into riches, so this is what I can afford. Speaking of afford: Oban is one of the distilleries I’d be most likely to review more of. I am not anti-Oban. I’m also not pro-Oban. […]

Royal Lochnagar 16 2021 Special Release

Welcome back to my continuing experiment wherein I explore my thoughts on Diageo by reviewing the 2021 Special Releases (minus one, who the heck can afford a 26 year old Lagavulin?) Royal Lochnagar is right up there with Glendullan for me. Many IB releases? Nope. Many OB releases? Nope (OB = From the Distillery, IB […]

Cardhu 14 2021 Special Release

This is a continuation of my ongoing self reflection of Diageo as a whisky reviewer. All done by reviewing the 2021 Special Releases of Diageo. Much easier than therapy or mindfulness. Buying Cardhu isn’t easy near me. We don’t have lots of Cardhu come through. You have the standard 12-year-old OB bottling. And… that’s what’s […]

Singleton of Glendullan 19 2021 Special Release

This is my continuing review series of 2021 Special Releases from Diageo. I’m looking back at what I drink, what I think, and how things have changed. What a great idea then to immediately go to a distillery I barely have any experience with! I’m so good at this. So Singleton of Glendullan 19 2021 Special […]

Talisker 8 2021 Special Release

My recent picks of whisky have dove into ideas of what I know about whisky, where we might be now, where we have been, and what changes may have happened. Since my life seems to be an exercise in slowly reacting to something external and seeing how my particular set of genes handles it, one […]