Tag: hedonism
This post has been fomenting for a while, but the perils of work and thinking too much about whisky have forced it into the background until now. Domu888 on twitter (Dominic Edsall in real life) asked me a while back what my top 10 whiskies under £50 were. I fired off a few off the [...]
Posted: June 26th, 2011 under Whisky.
Tags: aberloud, ardbeg, clynelish, compass box, glenlivet, hedonism, laphroaig, longrow, old pulteney, tweeddale blend
Comments: 7
Twelve down, many to go – Whisky Squad has almost reached its first birthday and to mark the occasion we had a rather special evening nestled in the hands of Chris Maybin from Compass Box. I’ve mumbled out Compass Box in the past and they remain one of my favourite whisky companies, with consistently interesting [...]
Posted: March 6th, 2011 under Tastings, Whisky.
Tags: asyla, chris maybin, compass box, hedonism, oak cross, peat monster, spice tree, whisky squad
Comments: none
A bit of a unexpected move by The Whisky Squad this month. Having gone through various high powered single malts this meeting’s theme was to be the whisky snob’s enemy – the much maligned blend. The idea behind this was to help further put down the theory that blended whisky is by its very nature [...]
Posted: September 16th, 2010 under Tastings, Whisky.
Tags: adelphi, ardbeg, bailie nicol jarvie, ben nevis, compass box, glenmorangie, gun, gunmakers, hedonism, serendipity, whisky guy, whisky squad
Comments: 1
Being someone who likes to talk I’m jealous of those lucky folks who get paid to wander around and talk about whisky. So, in an effort to get at least part of that I invited an exclusive posse of people around to my flat to have a bit of a whisky tasting. The intention was [...]
Posted: March 24th, 2010 under Tastings, Whisky.
Tags: benriach, chivas, compass box, curiositas, glenallachie, hedonism, kilchoman, new spirit, yamazaki
Comments: 4
For my first proper post I thought I’d start out as I probably will be going on – with a whisky. Compass Box are a whisky company known for their blending skills. Blends have got a bit of a bad name in recent times, but until the late 70s the concept of single malt whisky [...]
Posted: November 23rd, 2009 under Whisky.
Tags: black barrel, compass box, hedonism
Comments: 3