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Kilkerran 17yo, 57.3% Campbeltown 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 A nice sample picked up at Valhalla’s Goat a while back 👌🏻 👀 oily & amber 👃🏼 charry, damp bark, cordite, blackberry jam 👅 dark fruit sweetness, charry wood embers, earthy 🏁 drying, burnt logs, petrichor 🤔 Primeval! 📍#ChezMoi #️⃣ 4/5

1 week to go... #BlindDrams #BTC58

Revisiting this awesome PX Benrinnes 👌🏻

It works well with pink lemonade … #whoddathunkit?!?

Johnnie Walker Black Ruby, 40% 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 👀 dark bronze & light oil 👃🏼 chocolate, fudge, red apples, sea salt, floral 👅 red peppercorn, chilli, jammy, menthol & herbal, quite thin 🏁 after dinner mints, spicy barrel char 🤔 Pleasant & bright 📍#ChezMoi #️⃣ 3/5

A super hoppy beer that I picked up in Ardèche … enjoying it muchly 😊

Benrinnes, 11yo, FF bourbon, LOTG, 56.4%, Aberlour 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 👀 Brassy & brittle 👃🏼 spiced apple, molasses, fresh tobacco 👅 vanilla & wood spice, tinned pear in syrup, dries a little 🏁 medium, stewed apple & cinnamon 🤔 stewed apple & cinnamon 📍#ChezMoi #️⃣ 4/5

It’s not the Open, but it’s open 🥃😝 Loch Lomond DE7, 12yo Chardonnay yeast, 55.7%, Alexandria🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 👀 gold, rainy 👃🏼 pineapple, starch, vanilla & icing 👅 amazing fruity honeyed arrival with a ginger cake chaser 🏁 warm ginger, salty fizz 🤔 pineapple & ginger 📍#ChezMoi #️⃣ 4/5

Cheeky wee 20 miler this afternoon in preparation for the Dramathon in October 🏃🏽‍♂️🥃

COYB!!!

Long walk (incredible 🤯) last night, casino tonight 👌🏻

Great fun at the Tutankhamun immersive exhibition in Glasgow today 👌🏻

The apple syrup makes (another) tasty old fashioned 🥃👌🏻

Today’s busy-ness resulted in apple jelly, spiced apple syrup and apple & pear crumble filling for the freezer 🍏🍐🧑🏼‍🍳 #homecooking

#BlindDrams leftovers 👌🏻

Wonderful drams - thanks guys 🥃

#BlindDrams dot 5 for me is a 3. feels like a low score in context, but it's a great dram

#BlindDrams dot 5 palate really packs a punch, there is some sulphur, red kola & cinnamon, astringent, liquorice root

#BlindDrams dot 5 is golden & oily - the nose is all frazzles, sea salt, new leather football boots & Chelsea dubbin

#BlindDrams dot 4 is a well earned 5 star!

#BlindDrams dot 4 palate has a lovely concentrated rich fish consommé (in an nice way), salty, bisque, peat & sherry ... this is just spectacular

#BlindDrams dot 4 is slick & amber ... on the nose I'm getting peat & sherry, paella (borrowed from the zoom), sherry vinegar, medicinal

#BlindDrams wagon wheel - jam, mallow & chocolate - peat smoke, oregano & caramel - BEN NEVIS MAYBE?

#BlindDrams dot 3 - amber & heavy tears - farmyard funk , a rubber inner tube, treacle toffee

Dram 2: Reminds me of a Rum influenced Kilkerran. finish lasts. Sweet but a natural sweetness. Score: 4 this is more my level was almost a 3 but was I had to score it higher than Dram 1. #BlindDrams

#BlindDrams dot 2 is yet another 4

#BlindDrams dot 2 - white pepper & peat, cinnamon burn, salty .. water brings candied oranges ... SHURELY A SPRINGER?!?

#BlindDrams dot 2 is pale straw & syrupy again - a lovely lemony medicinal peat - not too fierce, clean cotton bandages

#BlindDrams dot 2 - the fruit fly bloody loved it

#BlindDrams dot 1 - I'm straight in with a 4 - it's a stoater

#BlindDrams dot 1

#BlindDrams dot 1 - banana fritters & syrup

#BlindDrams dot 1 palate is salty caramel & black pepper - it's punchy & spiced .... going back to the nose, there's some fish sauce in there.

#BlindDrams dot 1 is brassy & slick (this snap band is pulling the hair out of my arms) on the nose I get get coffee, salt & toffee, bruised apples

Our first #BlindDrams tonight will, of course, be for Kate. We miss you 🥃❤️

Poured and ready for tonight’s #BlindDrams 👌🏻 … can’t wait to see what those pesky « wee rentons » have in store for us 🥃❤️

Pre match pint 🍻 #falkirk #coyb

Today’s long run 🏃🏽‍♂️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #ukrunchat #running #falkirk

Wolfburn, 7yo, Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal, 46%, Thurso 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 👀 pale gold & brittle 👃🏼 vanilla, damp & earthy, flower pollen 👅 vanilla, tannic, cereals & a touch of smoke 🏁 quite short, sherbet & tea tannin 🤔 a tasty tannic treat 📍 #ChezMoi #️⃣ 3/5

Seriously chuffed to get a bottle of this off the shelf at @GoodSpiritsCo in Glasgow last weekend … my first bit of @Springbank1828 luck in a long time. I’ll do some tasting notes in future, but just gonna enjoy it tonight 🥃

So it transpires that my pear jelly makes an interesting and very tasty old fashioned 🍐🥃

Teaninich, 15yo, Cadenheads Original, Sauternes Cask, 46%, Alness 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 👀 brassy & syrupy 👃🏼 buttery banana bread, herbal & nutty 👅 bonfire toffee, quite spicy, dried bouquet garni, lemon thyme 🏁 a lasting spicy tingle 🤔 sweet & herbal 📍 Pot Still, Glasgow #️⃣ 3/5

6 x Pear jelly and 2 x raspberry & pear jelly … still about a third of the pears left too …. Have about a ton of apples out there too 😎

Pears! 🍐 a decent haul this year 👌🏻

Deanston, 11yo, leporto butt #587, 2012-2023, 59%, Doune 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 👀 pale straw, slow tears 👃🏼 apple skins, cereal 👅 a citric lemon fizz, crab apples, starchy, saline 🏁 short, peppery & fiery 🤔 starchy & lively! 📍 #ChezMoi #️⃣ 3/5

Culture, curry & cocktails … have had worse bank holidays 😊

A bit of culture today - Antigone at the fringe, Rebecca Kuang at the book festival and (of course) a wee dram or two at ensign ewart 👌🏻🥃

Next up 👌🏻

A couple of Glencadam Réserva drams tonight - huge thanks to @RockNRolla60 🤘🏻🥃 The Amarone is jammy dodgers & strawberry laces, the Madeira is baked apples & nutmeg … two fabulous drams