Beaujolais and a dram 🍷🥃

An opportunistic dram … easy sipping, creamy vanilla and apple, not too bad 🥃

Sat on this for a few years … a new bottle opened from @Inveruriewhisky and it’s lush

#BlindDrams dot 5 is lovely - herbal peat to the end - It's a nailed on 4 for me

#BlindDrams dot 5 palate chewing a liquorice root, latte, salt & vinegar, herbal & ground almonds

#BlindDrams dot 5 is very pale & slick .. on the nose I get a splicer bar, fimo clay, smoked fish

#BlindDrams dot 4 is really good - I'll settle on a 3

#BlindDrams dot 4 palate is salty, peat, bright lemon polish, very rounded & a little oily ... going back to the nose, I get Bombay mix

#BlindDrams dot 4 - nose - Abbie gets Char Sui Pork & the smoking room at a party

#BlindDrams dot 4 is slick & golden, the nose is very fresh white smoke, menthol cigarettes & dried green herbs

#BlindDrams dot 3 is excellent - a lasting toasty finish - a SOLID fantastic 4 - best so far for me

#BlindDrams dot 3 - palate is dandelion & burdock, black pepper & peat, blackcurrant tunes

#BlindDrams dot 3 on the nose Abbie says Dr Pepper & patchouli

#BlindDrams dot 3 is dark amber and low to bead, the nose brings cherries & raisins, balsamic dressing, white chocolate & dried raspberry

#BlindDrams dot 2 - the finish is aged - peat & pepper, I'm going 4

#BlindDrams dot 2 is amber and very leggy. Nose is Chocolate & Orange, damp wood, balsamic.

#BlindDrams finish is prickly peat - the bitterness brings a 2 for me - I quite like it & don't hate it

#BlindDrams dot 1 palate sweet and charry, it's very bitter - water tames the dram a little

#BlindDrams dot 1 is winey & brittle in appearance - on the nose I get Bavarian smoked cheese, frazzles & (highland?) peat

A wee warm up dram before #BlindDrams - teaspooned Clynelish apparently 🥃

Poured and ready for tonight’s #BlindDrams hosted by @whiskywithmolly.bsky.social …. My daughter Abbie is going to join in on the tasting. She does know one of the bottles (I don’t), be interesting if she guesses which of the 5 it is 🥃

Joining the #benrinnes club 🥃👌🏻

Half time at the @carltonkirby.bsky.social show …. Great fun so far 👌🏻🚴‍♂️

Volbeat were awesome 🤘🏻 #volbeat #glasgow #metal

Volbeat tonight 🤘🏻

My top 5 drams from yesterday’s GWF 👌🏻🥃

Raising a glass to you Pete 💔

A great day at Glasgow’s whisky festival. Wonderful to see so many friendly faces. Some great drams tried too👌🏻

Given that Ardbeg seem to be marketing their leftovers, I asked AI to design the new label ….

Sounds like an expensive closing down sale to me

Literally everyone in the whole world from Italy just arrived in the Pot Still. Luckily I got my dram poured first 🤣

Another @glasgowdc.bsky.social bourbon cask, this time with peat & at @potstillglasgow . Initial (oddly for me) view is I prefer unpeated, but the world spins in odd ways. I’ll do proper notes when I open my own bottle. Give Glasgow a spin - they consistently deliver spectacular drams 👌🏻🥃

A couple of great drams at the Bon Accord last night - the @glasgowdc.bsky.social @aqvavitae.bsky.social a true bourbon bomb and a smashing Nevis too

I did a bit of this today 🤘🏻

Bonnington, Peated Muscat, 51% vol, Leith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 👀 Oily, Rosé wine 👃🏼 Peat smoke & Chelsea whoppers, plasticine 👅 Creamy peat, sweet chardonnay, minerals 🏁 Drying, quite short 🤔 Winey with peat 📍 Albanach, Edinburgh #️⃣ 3/5

Glen Grant, 15 yo Batch Strength, 50% vol, Rothes 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 👀 Golden, slick 👃🏼 Sweet red apples, treacle sponge 👅 Honey, light cinnamon gum & wood spice 🏁 A gentle cinnamon buzz 🤔 Sweet cinnamon 📍Albanach, Edinburgh #️⃣ 4/5

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Here goes nothing 🩰🤘🏻

Sad to see the end of this fantastic Ardnahoe society bottle … it was excellent 👌🏻

Glenlivet Distiller’s Reserve, 40%, Ballindalloch 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 👀 rainy amber 👃🏼poached pear, honey & vanilla 👅 gentle spice, tinned pear & marzipan, thin but spicy 🏁 white pepper 🤔 pepper & pears 📍 Portsoy #️⃣ 3/5

A wee Glenfiddich with the Traitors 😊

Splitting the G?

Glenglassaugh Portsoy, 49.1% vol, Portsoy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 👀 Rainy polished brass 👃🏼 Peat smoke, walnut, oranges 👅 Pepper & peat, salt, oranges & BBQ sauce 🏁 coastal salt & prickly peat 🤔 An old school peaty dram 📍 Portsoy #️⃣ 4/5

Kingsbarns Distillery Reserve, 58.2%, Fife 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 👀 super slick apple juice 👃🏼oatcakes, overripe red apples 👅 cinnamon spice, dried red chilli, salt, apricot jam - water helps 🏁 sweet then dries, short salinity 🤔 spiced stone fruits 📍 Portsoy #️⃣ 3/5

Some wonderful grub today at the Seafield Arms in Cullen 👌🏻

An awesome aged Glenburgie from @RockNRolla60 …. Starchy pub lunch chips & vinegar on the nose, the palate is vanilla, honey, wood spice & pickle juice with a sherbet finish … banger! 🥃👌🏻

A fantastic visit to Dunphail today. A big thanks to our host, Emma. While the resident whisky sleeps, we tried some lovely Dava Way drams (Linkwood, Aultmore, Ledaig & “Kildalton”)

Ardbeg, Smoketrails, Côte-Rôtie wine cask, 46%, Islay 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 👀 golden & oily 👃🏼smoke, cracked black pepper, bruised banana 👅 smoked mackerel in black pepper, iodine, blackcurrants, charred wood spice 🏁 wood char 🤔 Black Pepper, Blackcurrant 📍 Portsoy #️⃣ 4/5

A sweet, nutty Knockdhu sample from @whiskypad.bsky.social 👌🏻

A tasty Cragganmore 12 … a little starchy, but carries a nice note of hobnobs, vanilla and highland toffee