Premium Whisky Advent Calendar 2021 Day 25 - Summary & Leaderboard
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Premium Whisky Advent Calendar 2021 Day 25 - Summary & Leaderboard
Master of Malt / Drinks By the Dram Advent Calendar
I will add whisky names to the videos in a few days once anyone who is following along doing blinds has had a chance. Until then, here is the order of the drams:
Glenrothes 18
JW Blue
Caol Ila 18
Teeling 18
Ledaig 18
Tamdhu 15
Gullivers 47
Glen Scotia 18
Evans
Crabbies 15
Dufftown 18
Hazelwood 18
Loch Lomond 18
Glenfarclas 21
Perspective 21
Arran Golden Glass
Dalmore Cigar Malt
Jura Tide 21
Quartermaster 11
JJ Corry Anfa
Glenallachie 12
Balvenie 21
Talisker 18
Mortlach 20
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Enjoyed the series, thank you!
Me too. Thanks for joining me Hans!
Thank you for that journey. Merry Christmas
It's been a fun one. Looking forward to next year already. Merry Christmas 😀
Shame it had to end. It's been a surprisingly fun ride. Thanks for sharing and Merry Christmas.
Yes it's been a fun and novel experience for me too doing 24 blind drams. Thanks for joining me!
Watched the whole lot in the last week or so! Thanks for taking us on the journey. Your senses are incredibly practised, I'm jealous. It would be really great if you had a series where you help teach us in more depth: talking about whiskies that you recommend that perhaps undeniably showcase particular flavour notes. If that's even possible.
Thanks Ebril! You probably noticed that I renamed them all last week to contain the dram names and added bottle images to the thumbnails. I thought anyone doing blind tastings at home had probably had enough time. Hope that didn't cause you any problems.
I have been preparing for a video on how to taste / appreciate whisky. Although that will probably be more beginner orientated. I've also been considering a video introduction on the whisky regions and styles too. The regions are only rough styles with lots of exceptions but I think it would be useful to have examples of each.
I really don't have any super powers though. A lot of it is just familiarity. Especially once I started to notice a pattern of 18yo Official Bottlings :-) and anything peated gives peat heads like me a serious advantage because that narrows the possibilities down a lot and peat can be quite unique.
My #1 tip would be to try as many different whiskies as possible. Websites that offer 30ml samples make this cheaper and easier and you have the benefit of being able to take your time in a quiet and nondistracting environment at home.
As for being able to identify whisky blind, a lot of it is knowing common tells of each whisky region. But there will always be stuff that catches you out. For example, that peated English whisky matured in a quarter cask. And i was pretry sure that the Arran Golden Glass was a Speyside :-) oops...
This series was a fun watch! Merry Christmas! 🎄
Thanks Geoff! A Merry Christmas to you and yours too.
BTW, fantastic work picking out that Blue Raspberry sweets tasting note on the Quinta Ruban. Takes me right back 🙂
We share the same sentiment about Glen Scotia….. so far.
Impressive work on the calendar and wrap up summary.
Merry Christmas 🎄
Cheers🥃
I think like Jura they are a great distillery with a bit of an identity crisis. Good potential.
Thanks and Merry Christmas John 🎄
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year..
Great summation.
Thanks for joining me and all the great comments. Hope you're having a great Christmas.
Love your analytical approach. Shame the advent series is over. Merry Christmas!!
Until next year 😉 the blind format was a fun new twist that I'll miss. Hope you have a great Christmas.
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I think you're right, I am grateful for craft presented whisky. It allows me to sift through the many bottles at the shop shelves without making regretful purchases.
Avoiding most Diageo products is tough on Clynelish and Talisker. But Tobermory is the worst. Great whisky but why???? They don't color the Bunnahabham.
I feel like I'm being pushed towards independent bottlers for a better chance of satisfaction, I see some 40-43%.
We should absolutely be grateful for craft distilleries and even more grateful for distilleries that make it clear on the label so we don't have to guess and go searching online.
@@WhiskyLock my problem is that from an American perspective we have no coloring and very little chill filtration. We have "craft distillation" that is code word for poor tasting whisky due to lack of experience.
Brand new 3 year old scotch tastes better. Even though most new scotch distilleries are presenting well.
I think the ABV for me is the deal breaker. At 43 people have to rave about in the community, like "Lot 40" rye. But a 40% like Dalmore---it may "taste like pumpkin pie" but I'm never going to buy myself a bottle. But as a gift????
I am also grateful for your effort, as a reviewer you have to try them all so I don't have to.
@@jackthepickledhound very interesting points. I think American Whiskey with its different production process and regulations faces a different set of problems to Scotch and most world whisky that generally takes inspiration from Scotch. Frustratingly, poor quality Scotch is often a result of self sabotage 😕