Years ago I cracked open my old whisky cabinet with intent to share and empty “dram dregs” with our newly formed Mumbai whisky club and friends. It was a most enjoyable evening and while we didn’t polish off all the bottles, we certainly made a dent!

So when I managed to free up the Friday evening before flying off to Nuremberg for the big move to Germany, the BEST way to enjoy was to invite a little assistance to “save” a few bottles from oxidation further in Mumbai’s far from ideal storage conditions.

Everything that was open came out of the whisky cabinet without exception!

Tasting stations were setup with:

• Ex-bourbon
• Sherry
• Japanese
• Experimental & International
• Peat
• Secret stash

The ex-bourbon‘s proved a popular starting point so several were polished off and only a few remained:

• Even at cask strength, North Star’s MacDuff 11 year was a favoured one to warm up with…
• Another that fit such a bill was the Bruichladdich Laddie 8 at a “mere” 50%
• With the Bruichladdich Bere Barley still having a few drams remaining…

In the Japenese corner we had:

• Hakushu 18 year – The last drops of a favourite whisky that I suspect was open for nearly 10 years (yes you read that correctly)…
• Chita 12 year – From over 4 years ago, it remained exquisitely perfumed, such a delight and quite different than the Chita NAS found these days
• Ichiro’s Houou-uhi – A mythical “Pheonix”… these final drops did not disappoint and reminded me just how exceptional this blend of discontinued Kawasaki and Hanyu malts truly was!
• Remarkably we still had a bit of the Nikka From the Barrel remaining…

And in our peat section?

• We had a Bruichladdich trio with two down and one still to go… from the MP5 series the Port Charlotte 10 year (2005/2016) Bourbon / Bordeaux Cask experiment had only a dram remaining for a special Whisky Lady
• North Star’s Caol Ila 12 year was snapped up and a clear crowd favourite!

While we certainly did not complete our mission of polishing off ALL, we did a very respectable job of making a serious dent with a focus on those quite low with just a few drams.

All told, we emptied 11 bottles.

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