Happy New Year!!! December was full of mischief in Mumbai, merriment in Munich and delightful New Year celebrations in Dubai.

Our Whisky Ladies enjoyed a Smokey Night of:

• Glenglassaugh Port Wood Finish Peated 46% – Lightly peated with a terrific port influence
• Kilchoman Machir Bay 46% – Still a great peaty dram!
• Bunnahabhain Chuach-Mhona 50% – Despite the hype, not exactly peaty
• Kilchoman Loch Gorm 46% – Proof that peat and sherry can work, just better if part of a peaty night not a sherry night

Plus notes from an earlier Whisky Ladies session with:

• Compass Box Great King Street Glasgow Blend 46% – A delicious dram… coffee, woodsy, slightly nutty and sweet

Our other two groups took a break for the holiday season providing a chance to share a few tasting experiences from my November Singapore trip starting with Nector of the Daily Drams:

• Ben Nevis 21 year (19967/2017) 48.7% – Not my tipple but a good example of a Ben Nevis style
• Highland Park 24 year (1992/2016) 50% – Delightfully well-balanced and exactly why once upon a time this was a preferred distillery
• Springbank 23 year (1994/2017) 50.6% – What one would more aptly associate with the Longrow brand – peaty and pleasurable!
• The Anniversary Dram XO 45.4% – A rather successful effort to reconstruct an ‘old style’ Macallan
• Deanston 19 year (1999/2018) 51% – Fruit, spice and rather nice!

Then from Whisky Live Singapore with:

• Edradour‘s Vintage 2008 and an Edradour Ballechin 8 year
• Patrick Maguire of Sullivan’s Cove with Double Barrel and American Oak Single Cask
• And a South Pole Expedition with Ardgowan

Plus a sampling of various Gordon & MacPhail offerings with:

• Miltonduff 10 year (2008/2018) 43% – Delicious sherry influence, marmalade and more from the new Discovery range
• Inchgower 13 year (2005/2018) 55.1% – Coffee, kaya toast, hazelnuts – yum!
• Glenlivet 14 year (2003/2018) 56.5% – Fruity, light spice, eminently enjoyable
• Mannochmore 18 year (1999/2018) 46% – Overt sherry, oak, spice with a citrus twist
• Caol Ila 33 year (1989/2018) 52.8% – Smoked meats, toffee, tobacco, salted nuts and pastry – gorgeous balance

Plus tasting notes from our Bombay Malt & Cigar Sherry Expressions eve:

• Hyde #6 President’s Reserve 8 year single grain + 18 year single malt 46% – With an Olorosso sherry finish
• Paul John 7 Year (2009) Oloroso Sherry Cask Finish 57.4% – Paul John’s first foray into a rich Olorosso sherry matured dram – simply superb!
• BenRiach 12 year (2005/2018) Cask No 5052 59.3% – A singular single cask, steeped in sherry – a true class act!
• Kilchoman Loch Gorm (2016) 46% – Full sherry and peat

Curious to know more? Check out recent Whisky Lady’s monthly missives:

• Whisky Lady – November 2018
• Whisky Lady – October 2018
• Whisky Lady – September 2018

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