#BlindDrams Tonight was a little Tour de France, exploring Scotch Whisky with a French influence - a celebration of the auld alliance. It was an experiment of sorts, but I hoped you enjoyed it. Either way, merci for taking part and #PardonnezMonFrancais - Santé 🥃

Many thanks to Cliff @cliffmann.bsky.social for a superb selection, really enjoyed it mate, and I'm going to have to source a bottle of the Port Charlotte. Thank you also to Brian, @maltmusings.bsky.social for another #BlindDrams 🥃

#BlindDrams Dram Cinq was a Port Charlotte in Pomerol wine - a prestigious, small Bordeaux wine region known for opulent, velvety, full-bodied red wines. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿SM ⏳9yo 🏁Pomerol Wine 💪🏼54.5% #️⃣3000 btls💰£90-£110

#BlindDrams Dram Quatre was from Fragrant Drops who have brought together Balblair, all the way from Ross-shire, with Sauternes, a world-renowned French sweet white dessert wine from the Bordeaux region. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿SM SC ⏳12yo 🏁Sauternes💪🏼58.2% #️⃣274 btls💰£90-£95

#BlindDrams Dram Trois is a departure for James Eadie, ageing a Dailuaine from Speyside in Cognac - hailing of course from the Cognac region where white wine is double-distilled in copper pot stills, then aged in French oak. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿SM SC ⏳18yo 🏁Cognac💪🏼50% #️⃣232 btls 💰£90-£95

#BlindDrams Dram Deux was a Lindores Thiron 2025. The Abbey was founded by monks from Thiron in 1191. In 2018 the distillery commisioned a number of casks made from the French oak trees that grow in the forests around the village of Thiron-Gardais. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿SM ⏳NAS 🏁French Oak 💪🏼49.4% #️⃣NK 💰£65

#BlindDrams Dram Un is a DL Epicurean, a Lowland blended malt in Calvados cask - apple brandy distilled from cider in Normandy & aged in oak. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿BM ⏳NAS 🏁Calvados 💪🏼48% #️⃣1800 btls 💰£38-£60

Dram 5 Score: 5/5 #BlindDrams

Dram 5. Palate: Sweet, salty, and dirty. Farmy, earthy, briny, dunnage, dry and vegetal peat. Sweet and sour sauce, leather, wet wood, red wine, caramel toffee, smoked berries, mocha #BlindDrams

Dram 5. Nose: Smoky, leathery red wine. Like walking into a tannery or taxidermist's workshop. Light acetone, fresh berries, ripe plums. Fruit-flavoured milk bottles, floral, Dubai pistachio chocolate #BlindDrams

Dram 4 Score: 4/5 #BlindDrams

Dram 4. Palate: Syrupy, chewy. Sweet peat, slightly ashy, glazed gammon, Chinese five spice, fresh leather, sweet tobacco, stewed berries, apricot jam, lemony lemonade, #BlindDrams

Dram 4. Nose: Sweet, salty, and sour. Berry jams, cola toffee, glazed ginger, sweet spice, a little meaty, pork crackling, char, pickle juice, sour cherries #BlindDrams

Dram 3 Score: 2/5 #BlindDrams

Dram 3. Palate: A tad watery, clear apple juice with a drop of lemon juice in it. A touch floral and quite woody. Lightly fruity, cereal, dry grass #BlindDrams

Dram 3. Nose: Very light and yeasty. Sweet lemon, vanilla, icing sugar, a light fruitiness #BlindDrams

Dram 2 Score: 3/5 #BlindDrams

Dram 2. Palate: Earthy, meaty, musty, and a little dirty. Fig roll, blackberry jam, fresh guava, herbal, burnt orange, savoury spices #BlindDrams

Dram 2. Nose: Nectarines and apricots. Orange effervescent tablets, chardonnay, honey, Danish pastrries #BlindDrams

Dram 1 Score: 2/5 #BlindDrams

Dram 1. Palate: Fresh, light, and fruity. Tastes quite young. White-flesh fruits, yeast, zesty citrus, ginger and pepper spice, vinous, and some char in the background #BlindDrams

Dram 1. Nose: Very perfumed, smells like Calvados. Floral, very ripe and fragrant pears, lemon-scented hand cream, bready, yeasty, potpourri, fresh roses #BlindDrams

Time for a beer and what better than this Schlenkerla Doppelbock. Cheers 🍻

Weekend sourdough done 👌🏻

It has been a while but time for another tasting & this is a special one! 5 x 30ml Benriach: •16yo Claret •17yo Burgundy •17yo Solstice (Peated Port) •21yo Authenticus (Peated BBN/Sherry) •22yo Albariza (Peated PX) 14 March, here on Bluesky. Please DM/comment if interested 🥃

All ready to go for next week's #BlindDrams #BTC61 🥃

Holiday #bottlekills 🥃

The pinkest whisky I've seen, and darn tasty with huge ripe orchard fruit notes 👌🏻👌🏻

That's me sorted for the rest of the day 😄🍻

Drinking excellent beer and making X-mas shortbread 😍🍻🫓

Smoked wheat beer...delicioso 😍 Cheers, all 🍻

Cragganmore was my first love and this 14yo is not disappointing. Nose is rich with sawdust, earthy, floral, chocolate digestives, toasted pastries, and a little spearmint. It's actually pretty fatty, oily, funky, dirty. Loving it 😍

In town this morning and picked up a few gems! 🍻👌🏻

Fresh bottle opened tonight. Benriach malting season is a great drop but not worth the £100 retail price. Picked it up at auction for £40 👌🏻🥃

The Highland Park 15 year old Viking Heart...matured in American & European sherry-seasoned oak casks and bottled at 44% abv. This was part of a tasting I hosted at while back and it went down very well with my guests 🥃👍🏻 #pswhisky #sniffsipslainte #whisky

One of my favourite sour beers. This Vault City Winter Berry Crumble is just stunning and I'm so glad it's back again this year! 🍻

Morning baking. Plain sourdough on the right. Mature cheddar sourdough on the left. Can't wait to tuck in 😍

This morning's sourdough loaves. Just perfect! 🍞 👌🏻😍

Remembering my dad today. Can't believe it's been 4 years already ❤️‍🩹

Ending the weekend with a Fuller's 2024 vintage ale. Delish! 🍻

Baked a couple of sourdough loaves this morning. Going to go perfectly with the soup later! 😍

Closing out the weekend with this delicious Mars Nitro Stout by Vault City Brewing 🍻

So glad to be baking bread again. Two perfect sourdough loaves baked this morning 😍

This year's Oloroso Cask...8 years old at 48.2% abv. A superb bottle that I'm taking my time with and really enjoying 👌🏻🥃 #whisky #pswhisky #sniffsipslainte #lovewhisky #whiskylife

I'm sadly not going to make it to Glasgow's Whisky Festival in a few weeks' time. If anyone would like to buy a ticket for session 2, please let me know? Thank you🥃😢

Huge thanks to Andy and Brian for a wonderful Blind Drams. Going to have to buy one of these HP's! #BlindDrams

Dot 5 along with Roy Castle was a 2014 Caol Ila, 100% Proof (57.1%) , Edition 49, 10 y/o single malt by independent bottler Signtory Vintage, matured in 1st fill Oloroso Sherry Butts, unchillfiltered and natural colour, from Islay and costing £45 a bottle #Blinddrams.

Dot 4 along with Roy Orbison was a 2011 Orkney (HP), 100 % Proof (57.1%), Edition 59, 14 y/o single malt by independent bottler Signtory Vintage, finished in 1st fill Palo Cortado Hogsheads, unchillfiltered and natural colour, from the Islands region and costing £47 a bottle #Blinddrams

Dot 3 along with Roy Scheider was a 2005 Speyside (M), Cask Strength Collection, 57.4%, 18 y/o single malt by Signtory Vintage, matured in a 1st fill Oloroso Sherry Butt (DRU17 A106 #46), unchillfiltered and natural colour, bottle number 440 of 665, and costing £204 a bottle #Blinddrams