Tag: talisker
A quick note before I start my normal rambling – Whisky Squad numbering. You may notice that my last Whisky Squad post was about #25, which implies that I’ve missed a session – I can safely say that I haven’t, but that I won’t be writing about #26, Whisky Surprise. It was an excellent session, [...]
Posted: January 12th, 2012 under Tastings, Whisky.
Tags: berry brothers, berry brothers and rudd, cutty sark, frapin, glenrothes, macduff, mannochmore, talisker, whisky squad
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The year has turned and time for another whisky squad has rolled around. This month, in a departure to the norm, we relocated from The Gunmakers to sample some more whiskies from Berry Brothers and Rudd, the eponymous Berry’s Own Selection, this time in the cellars beneath their shop at Number 3 St James’s Street. [...]
Posted: January 11th, 2011 under Tastings, Whisky.
Tags: aberlour, bbr, berry brothers, berry brothers and rudd, blue hanger, dailuaine, glenrothes, linkwood, mortlach, talisker, whisky squad
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I can date the beginning of my love of good whisky fairly accurately to December 1997. I’d been working in my student Union bar for about 6 months and had recently tried single malt whisky, rather than my usual foray into the spirits world of Bells and Coke, and found that It Was Good. To [...]
Posted: January 21st, 2010 under Cocktails, Whisky.
Tags: burns, clark mcginn, colin dunn, diageo, qype, salt bar, talisker
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A while back I bumped into Laissez Fare at a wine tasting and I quickly admitted that I didn’t really have much of an idea about wine. However, in an effort to pull back my boozey reputation, I started rambling about the Scotch Malt Whisky Society, my tongue slightly loosened by the magic voodoo wine [...]
Posted: December 6th, 2009 under Whisky.
Tags: bowmore, cheese, foodbymark, glen garioch, glencadam, glenmorangie, laissez-fare, smws, talisker
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