#highenergybar #openchina #drinks #nightlife #alcohol #beer #bar #cocktails #party #drink #whiskey #vodka #gin #cocktail #whisky #drinking #wine #liquor #rum #fun … So a lot of shoe polish, concrete, lamp oil, huge notes of fern, eucalyptus, Diesel oil, then grapefruits and citrons, chalk, flints, Sancerres… Well, Samaroli's Springbanks were sometimes more or less in the same league as that of Giaccone's Clynelishes, that's all. Nose: tincture of iodine, green apples, vine peaches, seaweed, concrete, rainwater, brine. I think it's cool that what is essentially a fan community can go to their favourite distillery and get a single cask done. Undisclosed/Vatted Nose: sticky dark fruits, plum wine, pomegranate molasses, date loaf and strong fruit teas. always try to write about artists who, I believe, deserve Angus 1,363, Others Dornoch 3 yo 2017/2020 (59.4%, OB, Thompson bros. first fill ex-oloroso butt, cask #1, 893 bottles) Finish: medium, toasted, a little green. A delicate thread of peat smoke and some dried seaweed in umami broths. Here, we serve up a fresh, elevated approach to wedding planning…always with a side of whiskey and some serious fun. Finish: good length, briny, anchovies in oil, a slight camphor note and becoming more medical with embrocations and a little TCP. Mouth (neat): rich sherry, cakes, nuts, prunes, loads of dates, and a salty smoke that's maybe a wee tad dissonant here. They are two different things and only one of them is Scotch. Colour: pale gold. Kate and Mark have called this kind of 'flash finishing' technique 'resting', which in this case was 5 months in a ruby port barrique. Colour: straw. It’s Ardbeg, not Ardberg. June 1 - 2 December 1 - 2 . LIVE MUSIC: HOO DOO CROSSING 4/17 @ 9 PM. July 1 - 2 Join us for some fun Irish Whiskey Cocktails & a Celtic-themed menu At DOME and L&S. It was about time! January 1 - 2, 2013 October 1 - 2 A stunning and direct aroma bristling with coastal freshness, waxes, beach pebbles, chalk, herbal teas and delicately scented with peat smoke. No? Sometimes not for bad reasons, if you ask me, but don't get me wrong, this is good, very honourable blend. Part One was so long that folks wrote to say so! tracks. Bunnahabhain 12 yo (53.4%, OB, hand-filled at the Distillery, manzanilla, cask #332, 2017). 2017-07-18. ... typically 2–4 hours long, are afternoons of unadulterated fun, music and some great booze. This is part of BA's Best, a collection … He also asked me some questions in return and was generous with his time in a way he didn't need to be. Chiselled, taut, sharply coastal, citric, chalky, poised cereals, a few white breads and impressions of toasted mixed seeds. Distillation by the 'new' owners, obviously. Good, a fifth Irish please… Perhaps one with a higher voltage? Nose: salted fudge and pine-y caramel sauce, that just kills. With water: takes on a crisp smokiness, bacon crisps, smoked teas, heather flowers, herbs and putty. Has its charms, you could quaff this while in the sauna I suppose. Springbank 26 yo 1993/2020 (51.1%, OB for Virtual Open Day 2020, two refill hogsheads, 432 bottles) When in doubt, simply give things a taste and trust your instincts. With water: very good now. Nose: we were right. Some very slight farmyard aspects too, such as this persistent sheep wool oiliness, and some nice white peppery notes. Just keeps on giving and evolving. Branches and grasses, a little saccharin, vanilla-ed sugar, burning cardboard, sunflower and sesame oils, barley water, fresh almonds, icing, Wulong tea… With water: a green seawater, kelp, oysters, bamboo shoots, white asparagus… That's all fine and well! Quick… With water: back to civilisation, even if the oak remains loud. March 1 - 2 I was only 19 at the time and yet I remember the conversation very clearly. Textually perfect, waxy, thready notes of smoked olive oil, camphor, sandalwood, tea tree oil, bergamot, tangerine, dried papaya, generally a few notches more tropical than other casks from these vintages. artist deserves wider recognition. He took time and paid attention and was completely charming and authentic. Nose: what is great is that you immediately know this is something different. With water: fruit loops alongside honey glazed ham and stem ginger. Comments: hold on, there 5yo barrels, that's 15 years then, no? Something which seems a hallmark of these parcels of whisky. We're entering new realms. Colour: white wine. June 1 - 2 Mouth (neat): the cherry-leaf side of Tullibardine's well there, so the heavy cask treatment did not completely erase any distillery character this time, but the rest is on varnish, roasted nuts, halva, butterscotch, and some sweet wine, perhaps around Rivesaltes, other vins doux naturels etc. Whiskey Fun Facts and Trivia -- Part Two If you missed Part One, click here Whiskey Fun Facts and Trivia -- Part One. December 1 - 2 Titled The Great Dublin Whiskey Fire, the disaster resulted in the tragic loss of 13 lives and 1,900 casks of whiskey. Add to that some cherry-infused dark beers, cured ham and bouillon stock. Mouth (neat): high bourbon, like Pappy stuff and heavy rye. May 1 - 2 We may have a little more than just five but five days of Bunny in a row – I almost wrote in a raw – are more than enough. Comments: what is important to remember here is that this really is the first cask filled. September 1 - 2 April 1 - 2 With water: metal polish, basil, bulldog sauce, Marmite. February 1 - 2 Fish oils, then oysters. March 1 - 2 Highland Park 28 yo 1992/2020 (58.7%, Cadenhead for Cadenhead Whisky Shop Milan, butt, 396 bottles) Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. Lemon juice, sheep wool, lighter petrol notes, caraway and ink. Colour: bright straw. What an extreme beast. Johnnie Red might be a little better, in truth. Do they? Raspberry and strawberry jams, some slightly balsamic and acetic touches, walnut wine, plum sauce and wee touches of hessian. Not sure I love these additional options. Good—let’s get to it. I Colour: amber. Nose: white chocolate and custard, sweet pudding, vanilla fudge, wee whiffs of balsa wood, blancmange, iced nougat, cassata… I'd call this 'very gourmand' so far. Cheers, pace e salute! Beneath that comes a big waft of malt bin and kiln air: pure, gristy, clean, rich maltiness. Mouth: better on the palate, because we do enjoy our breads, toasted woods, roasted raisins and nuts, and ginger-led spice mixes. Whilst we’re at it, palate, pallet, and palette are also three different things. After a steep … November 1 - 2 Salty, wonderfully savoury and umami, these persistent breads, dark grains and spices, still slightly vegetal, earthy and with nice tobacco touches. Royal, Port I do, instead of everyone, love you But you pull the gun I knew after I gave you some I’m ready for whiskey and fun. Blair Nose: light, easy, cake-y, with wee whiffs of coal smoke and then pear liqueur. August 1 - 2 Comments: because I don't try it very often, and because it can be variable on occasion, it's easy to forget just how much I bloody love Longrow! Nose: beautifully clean, sharp and elegant, there's also a crisp, green and exotic fruitiness that these later vintages don't possess. There are so many Bunnahabhains that building a verticale would be too painful, with too many similar whiskies consecutively. Mouth: big arrival, wonderfully textural, oily and waxy. 2020 Finish: good length, some spiced marmalade, more herbal cough mixtures, marmite, menthol tobacco and more of these piney and wormwood qualities. malts, Nick The peat is quite astonishing in this one, was this one fully floor malted? 2016 Bourbon Secrets. Explore the wonderful and diverse world of whiskey and learn about the styles, including Irish, Scotch, bourbon, and rye. 2015 SGP: 366 - 86 points. It is not 'business as usual' whisky production. Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile. Colour: deep orangey gold. Scotch Fun Facts: Scotch whisky is the term used in context of whisky that is made in Scotland. Comments: perhaps more for the battlefield than for the library. Three times 93! Nose: look, I know Skye only has Talisker besides this, but there is something 'Skye-ish' about this already. You might also add smoked olive oil, preserved lemons, natural tar extract and sandalwood. January 1 - 2 Charlotte/Octomore, Undisclosed/Vatted nor dangerous motorbike riding. Yeah, that's ethanol. But plenty sure is no plague…, Check the index of all Bunnahabhain we've tasted so far, There were more Bs after the despairingly humble little 'An Cladach'… What a poor little drop! Bunnahabhain 18 yo 2001/2020 (54.7%, Elixir Distillers, The Single Malts of Scotland, sherry, cask #1253, 620 bottles), Staoisha 2013/2020 (59.6%, Whisky Is The Limit, 2nd fill ruby Port wine barrique, cask #10439), Staoisha 7 yo 2013/2020 (61.3%, Maltbarn, bourbon, 151 bottles), Bunnahabhain 10 yo 2007/2017 (56.7%, Signatory Vintage, Straight from the Cask, hogshead, cask #140, 360 bottles), In the words of Gino Vannelli, black labels don't make it. Irish whiskey is from, you guessed it, Ireland. Unless them too would be starting to bury their singular makes under tons of vanillin or PX… Let's see what we have…, Pleasant session, they never stopped getting better. of the Great - à consommer avec modération', Tullibardine's a bit like Fettercairn, Glenturret, or even Edradour as the latter used to be two decades ago, unpredictable. Just like beer and other alcoholic drinks, the world of whiskey has divided into various flavours and niches. What a challenge anyway, heavy peat and heavy sherry, imagine, that's doing the sorcerer's apprentice! Garioch, Glen Also some bitter chocolate, unlit cigar, camphor, olive oil and bouillon stock. November 1 - 2 April 1 - 2 Keith, Glen Finish: long, spicy, bready, light notes of cured meats such as Iberico ham, and some tiny wee green fruits. Tiger balm and Procter's Vicks, puréed chestnuts, plastics. Not too easy but we can handle this. ... Rye whiskey-- made from mash that consists of at least 51% rye. 2005/2019 (49%, Silent Ambassador, Venezuela, 132 bottles). So the effect of them being 'hidden', just comes across as a bit silly. This is evident while filming the movie "The African Queen" on location in the African Congo. Pin sharp and totally sublime. Just lacks a little extra complexity that would have propelled it passed the 90 mark. Manzanilla-ed whisky? September 1 - 2 July 1 - 2 November 1 - 2 Blend (417) She uses Kovacs as her artist's moniker and also refers to her backing band as Kovacs. Comments: pretty exemplary and solid Orkney 'stuff'! Mouth: unexpectedly sweet upon arrival. If all you knew was this was Highland Park you'd say a 1960s distillate I'm sure. But this feeling of distilled manzanilla just works. Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. Whiskey Fun Facts and Trivia -- Part One Let's start this off by talking about how Humphrey Bogart, the legendary actor of the silver screen, knew how whiskey saves lives. Let's see what we have today…, High Coast 'Alba' (53%, OB, Sweden, 2021), Dalmunach 4 yo 2016/2020 (52.5%, Duncan Taylor, The Octave, cask # 10828343, 84 bottles), Golan Heights 3 yo (66.2%, Mashing, single grain, Israel, 2021), Good Times 8 yo (45.6%, Simply Whisky, grain, Ireland, +/-2020), Nikka 'Yoichi' (40%, OB, Japan, blended whisky, +/-2019). Lemon tea, verbena, cough medicines and old school bitter ales. That, would be some proper brandy de Jerez. … Colour: deep gold. Quite unlike anything else really. Bn8 2013-2015/2020 (58.4%, Elixir Distillers, Elements of Islay, bourbon and sherry, 1896 bottles), Bunnahabhain 2014/2020 (54.3%, Duncan Taylor, The Octave, for Singapore, 82 bottles), Bunnahabhain 2013/2020 (48%, Skene, hogshead, casks #878 & 879, 504 bottles), Bunnahabhain 23 yo 1997/2020 (52.3%, The Golden Cask for The Whisky Barrel, bourbon, cask #CM265, 277 bottles), Bunnahabhain 6 yo 2013/2020 (59.8%, Scotch Malt Whisky Society, #10.195, refill bourbon hogshead, 'Shiver me timbers', 288 bottles), Bunnahabhain 5 yo 2013/2019 (58.9%, Cadenhead, Small Batch, 720 bottles). With water: rather more oily in texture, all on seawater, cooking oils - sunflower oil and smoked olive oil perhaps - sandalwood, camphor and putty. I agree I should have posted this on St. Pat's. February 1 - 2 Finish: good length, remains on medicines, herbs, sea air, minerals, waxes and this wonderful oiliness. With water: concentrated, spicy and chocolatey with many more of these syrupy, chocolatey and bitterly herbal qualities coming through. Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Nikola Tesla drank Whiskey every day because it supposed it would make him live to 150. SGP: 462 - 86 points. Rum from Corporacion Alcoholes Del Caribe. Is it possible to feel as though you've visited Samoa without ever having been? See you next time then. Did anyone ever try to distil manzanilla and drink it as 'white'? But then again, so does Mark Watt… ;) Colour: deep pink. Remembering Michael Jackson on his birthday. Nose: another world. August 1 - 2 September 1 - 2 Lovely stuff! I think I missed this one, I should have tried it as it came in. Mouth: clever! April 1 - 2 Nose: quite typical of these European oak casks, this is immediately on simmering, toasty wood spices. Say rather Montecristo – as I remember them, it was so long ago… Mouth (neat): extremely rich and thick, on a lot of curry sauce, more banana cake, cinnamon mints, rich spicy pipe tobacco, with touches of varnish that may just come from the super-high strength. November 1 - 2 Awards Enter your email. Here's how to pick what you want Where a liquor is made is, in some ways, more important than the actual ingredients. Medicinal and with these peppery, nibbling tannins. Highland Park 28 yo 1980/2008 (43%, Mackillop's Choice, for USA) Awards Five's a good deal with young peaters. Remember, as they would tell you on the label, 'bibere humanum est'. Nose: a rather lovely hay loft style dustiness at first. I show you evidence of that. Start the wiki, Blue but don't the [? Comments: a big rich beast that should stem from Signatory's stock. For guest list and table reservation contact us on the below details RSVP: 8181050050/ 9833955580 . When reading whisky books or visiting distilleries, I noticed that one of the parts I liked the most was the “fun facts” section… Yeap, I have more fun being told Frank Sinatra was buried with a bottle of whiskey than learning Triumph barley was only used between 1980 and 1985 (true story though)… And I do believe I’m not the only one around here! Strong honeys too. I'm sure lovers of this kind of whisky will find a lot to enjoy, precisely because - despite the suggestions of the colour - it's been done with a lightness of touch that leaves plenty distillery character in place. Partly. Longrow 1987/1999 (55%, Samaroli, cask #141) A huge overbaked banana cake, some butterscotch, honey sauce, various honeys… And quite some ethanol, naturally. Scotia, Glenury I'm ready for whisky and fun (Ready for whisky and fun) Wrong has been the truth I'll pull the trigger on me and you I'm gonna work it, fight it every day No man like you will block my way Ooh, ooh I don't know where to go Ooh, ooh I'm gonna leave this show I do, instead of everyone Love you but you pulled the gun I know after i gave you some I'm ready for whisky and fun So, 'best after etc.' Other spirits (952), Music February 1 - 2 Finish: rather long, with a rounder smokiness and something a little fat. I've heard nothing but good reports about this one but let's see what, precisely, is what… Colour: pale white wine. I find all this contemporary obsession around anonymity quite funny and more than a little sad as well. There's a kind of crusty saltiness about it as well, which maintains a constant impression of freshness - something so many of these Orkney malts seem to possess in spades. Solid work by Cadenhead. You really are the best and we are so, so thankful!” Anyway, bunnets aff' to the Thompsons… today Allt-A-Bhainne, I'll have to say it again, this ought to be pronounced 'Alt-ah-vanya' but if you're not 100% sure you'll nail it, you'd rather use 'Alta-bain' instead of making a fool of yourself (as I do myself all the time when in Scotland, they keep directing me to the Tourist Office! Spiced almonds, paprika, rose syrup, more simple supermarket red fruit jams, cranberry gravy and a little miso. … Explore the wonderful and diverse world of whiskey and learn about the styles, including Irish, Scotch, bourbon, and rye. There's some sharpness of youth and some grisliness from the sherry that time might have further ironed out, but this is nit picking. Mouth: nicely peppery and even more focused on these sticky dark fruits, cloves, spiced blood oranges, mulling spices, natural tar, heather ales, bouillon stock and mint tea. Perhaps with water? HOO DOO CROSSING 5/28 OUTSIDE @ 8 PM. will remain on-line only for a few days. Anyway, I really love it, and a fitting close to this session. Feels very pure, coastal and saline. By signing up for this … So there probably was some 'dissolving' of residues going on within those final five months. Jameson sells more Irish Whiskey than all other Irish producers. Media/News Company. Nose: a modern style of sherry that's rather fudgey and showing lots of bright jammy notes. Wee notes of redcurrant, fruit preserves and indeed even port. I A marksman's whisky. We call them 'the challenging whiskies'. I also try to Whiskey, any of several distilled liquors made from a fermented mash of cereal grains and including Scotch, Irish, and Canadian whiskeys and the various whiskeys of the United States. Comments: this is a good example of where these stocks cross the borderline between being just 'very good Orkney malt' to 'classy'. But unlike beer there is a lot of seriousness attached to this alcohol. Comments: not earthshattering, and 99.5% of all rums aren't anyway (to a mat lover), but clearly good and pleasant. Perhaps due to the bottling strength, it's actually wonderfully reminiscent of the old official green dumpy bottlings from the 1970s. SGP: 653 - 81 points. But it's also nicely savoury, salty, heathery, sooty, piney and with this firm impression of coastal freshness and distant, heathery peat smoke. Please prepare you smallest violins if you will. June 1 - 2 (Another variation of this is, “All Scotch is whisky, but not all whisky is Scotch.”). Colour: mahogany. It could have been bottled a little earlier than 1995, but who knows… This is most probably early 1970s distillate, which wasn't that far from the 1960s, which means that we're instantly reminded of the 'Local Barleys', of the 'West Highland Malts', or simply of the earlier, bulkier bottles of 21 yo. 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