Pete’s whisky, whiskey, bourbon and rye

#BlindDrams postmortem. An interesting selection of drams. #whisky

Great tasting tonight! #blinddrams

Benrinnes 1996 25yo

Glen Scotia 15

Glen Scotia 12

Post #BlindDrams drinks. I prefer the Glen Scotia 15 vs the 12, although the 12 is a very nice dram. The 15 has a floral note that Inreally like. This Benrinnes is also just gorgeous. #whisky #GlenScotia #Benrinnes

Dram 5: Score 3
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Dram 3: Score 4

Dram 5

Dram 5: Nose is quite closed but sweet and slightly funky cheese. Fizzy sweets, sherbert sweets. Palate has dark fruit jam and citrus with a peppery, slightly astringent finish.
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Cherry! That’s the one I couldn’t name.

Dram 4

Dram 4: Lots of port notes, dark fruit, blackberry jam, quite tannic, sweet and a lovely pepper kick.
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Dram 3: It’s a winner! 5!

Dram 3

Dram 3: Funky, rubbery, dark fruit compote. Soft funky fizzy orange on the palate. Ginger and white pepper with honey on white toast on the finish.
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Dram 2: 2
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Dram 2

Dram 2: Fizzy lime and lemon, white wine, citric on the palate, spicy grapefruit marmalade on the finish.
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Dram 1 scores 3 from me. #BlindDrams

Dram 1

Dram 1: baby powder, icing sugar, cereal, pear drops. Finish is a bit sulphury. Splenda aftertaste eventually.
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#blinddrams poured

Ready for tonight’s #blinddrams! #whisky

Aberargie Inaugural

Recently joined Instagram & my theory is that distilleries post sealed bottles because it's so shite even they can't drink it 🤣
Neck pour so no judgement beyond initially seems nice. My warm up before my usual #BlindDrams humiliation. I should be able to maintain my 0% record this evening. #whisky

Tonight at 8pm here on @bsky.app
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Got this one. I'm scared to open it now!

The fanboy generated FOMO got to me. Just don't tell me if it's terrible, I'd prefer not to know the nightmare I'm facing.

Let us know how it is.

That looks interesting. I don't have much Tomintoul but I'm thinking IB is the way to go.

Has it got loads of Terry's Chocolate Orange?

Thompson Bros Sideburn (teaspooned Balvenie) 35yo Rare Find Old Rhosdhu 30yo (Loch Lomond) Rare Find Longmorn 24yo London Distillery 10 times around the sun (10yo)

Catching up on my queue, its fresh crack Friday with some beauties selected by @distilling-wisdom.com . No notes, just pure enjoyment, each is worthy of an evening on its own. What's in your glass tonight? #whisky

I had it in the queue for a long while. When I pulled it out tonight I found an unopened 10 sitting behind it. Bonus, I adore the 10!

Balmenach 26 Arran 21 Macaloneys Washington Peat

Tropical fruit Balmenach 26, a Xmas present from my son. Arran is lemon sherbet, candied peel and sultanas. I found Macaloneys in Canada a couple of years ago, this one uses the same peat as Westland. Ashy smoke, charred peach & runny honey, wonderful! #whiskey #macaloneys #Arran #Balmenach

From memory Speyside.

Yamazaki 18 Akkeshi Peated single Malt Akkeshi 2024 Tancho

Japanese night. This Yamazaki 18 is like a young Linkwood, not impressive. I picked up these Akkeshis in Kyoto, I hadn't seen them before. They are stunning, maritime, sweet peat, pears poached in syrup. The distillery tries to source everything locally too! #whisky #Japanese #Akkeshi #Yamazaki

Wireworks and Cotswolds for sure. I'm not a big Bimber fan but a lot of people are.

I'm a sucker for punishment, no doubt I'll end up with a bottle.

Long walk from London 😂