There is a stage when you are at a Whisky Festival where you no longer have the capacity to consider exploring a full range. Instead, the approach is much more selective. It becomes a question of “If I were to … Continue reading
Once you have been to a whisky festival or two, you start to have a way of navigating their offerings…. making a good connection or two with the lads and lasses at the various booths, and then move on to … Continue reading
Our Nurnberg Whisky Explorers group doesn’t have many “peat heads” in our mix. Most veer away from the smoky stuff. Hence when we had a specially “curated” evening that started to move in the peat direction, we were opening new … Continue reading
Our Nurnberg Whisky Explorers group has a combination of what we call “curated” evenings and “contribution” based themes. For April, we had effectively two sessions in one! Each was carefully put together to introduce those newer to exploring whiskies with … Continue reading
Our “What’s in a Name?“ evening featured two Simply Whisky bottles! The first was Benrinnes 10-year “Peace, Love & Whisky” which was followed by “Memories“: a single malt from Blair Athol. The distillery is part of the Diageo stable and … Continue reading
Some Scottish distilleries owned by the big players like Diageo were once in the shadows, with most liquid going into blends. Big brands like Johnnie Walker and J&B rely on such “work horse” distilleries as Benrinnes (sometimes also bottled as … Continue reading
We began our evening of “Second Chances” with an independent bottler Chorlton from the May 2022 releases of David’s La Nouvelle Vague series. For those not familiar with Teaninich, it is part of the Diageo “workhorses” stable of whiskies that largely go … Continue reading
This year I really felt like I truly experienced winter! I spent late October to early November in my hometown of Winnipeg, Canada – which greeted me from the air with snowy whiteness! Plus remained in Nurnberg, Germany all the … Continue reading
We were at the ‘less is more” stage of our London Whisky Show 2023 explorations. Just a select duo per booth, a little listening and learning, and then moving on. After an interesting pit stop at the Diageo counter, our … Continue reading
As we were there for only one day, we did a little planning to ensure we were clear on our “must” vs “should” vs “could” stalls for this year’s London’s Whisky Show 2023. It was tough to choose – over … Continue reading
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