June was full of travels! Which just so happened to prompt a few whisky adventures with:
- Amusing hour(s) selecting whiskies at London’s Whisky Exchange
- Went on a road trip to tour of Gimli’s Crown Royal plant
- Got completely distracted at a Winnipeg Liquor Mart
- Evening with Winnipeg’s “The Cabinet” whisky tasting club
- Popped into Winnipeg’s Whisky Bar (part of The Toad in the Hole on Osborne)
- Raided a friend’s whisky collection to snag a few samples to bring back to India… as he puts it “I do NOT collect stamps!“
June featured three tasting sessions!
Whisky Ladies European Tour with four completely distinct whiskies:
- Finland – Teerenpeli 10 year 43% – A delightful whisky you’d love to sip and savour all by yourself!
- Denmark – Braunstein Danica 42% – Interesting Danish offering…
- France – Kornog Tarouc’h Trived BC 10 46% – Sexy, sultry deliciousness in a bottle!
- Germany – Slyrs 51 NAS 51% – Quite direct, in your face
Irish Night (Photo: Ashok Gulati)
Alas I missed the Original’s Irish Night which featured:
- The Wild Geese Rare 43%
- Knappogue Castle 14 year 46%
- Teeling Small Batch 46%
However it was ably substituted by a fabulous Peat theme with Winnipeg’s The Cabinet!
- RoseBank 21 year (1990/2011) 53.8% as a ‘starter’ – Increasingly rare discontinued lowland whisky
- Ledaig 10 year 46.3% – Excellent easy drinking entry to Islay peat
- Talisker Storm 45.8% – Sea breeze and smoke
- Paul John Peated 55.5% from India… guess who introduced that whisky!?
Do check out The Cabinet‘s post “Peat” on our evening too!
Paul John Distillery, Goa, India
One of our intrepid whisky ladies while on a film shoot in Goa took a little detour to visit Paul John distillery!
This prompted my Revisiting the Paul John Bold 46% – currently my smoky ‘go to’ dram.
I also had fun comparing a Laphroaig 10 year with their PX Cask.
Caught up with tasting notes from May with:
- Whisky Ladies’ “I like the label!” evening featuring:
- Compass Box Great King Street – Artist’s Blend
- Australia’s remarkable Starward Whisky 43%
- Whisky Union’s experiment Smoky Goat 40%
- Birthday cake + Zacapa 23 rum
- Original tasting group’s “Unchartered Territory” evening reversing traditional notions of whisky tasting order with:
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No wonder I wake up with a headache every morning Carissa! Too much Whisky I suppose. 😆
Looks like you had a lovely time. 😀 ♥
Hehe! Hardly! I’m very much a quality over quantity kinda gal. I’d rather enjoy a little than be miserable with a lot. 🙂
Glad to hear that. Thought you might have been drinking too much and I was getting the headaches! LOL!
I am the same and when I can afford it, I do love my glass of W before bedtime. 😀
It is quite amusing how folks think just because I enjoy exploring whiskies and write about it that I’m a prodigious drinker! Far from it. I’ve even been known to sample, spit and even dump a whisky. Which is considered sacrilege by most but works for me. 😉
I think people think the same of the wine tasters but I don’t think that of W drinkers. I can drink as much as I want and won’t get drunk. Think that is why I love it so much. Not that I drink that much. Two singles would be more than enough. Two doubles would be the limit and then I would still feel fine, but then I go right to bed. It relaxes me so much. I think with Whisky there will never be any need for meds. 😀
I will never dump a whisky. That is a waste. LOL!
Like I said, I’ve been called quite a heretic for not finishing something that doesn’t work for me! 😉
My partner’s mother always has her glass of cognac each night… a kind of personal ‘medicine’. We figure at 86, she can enjoy what she wants! 🙂
If it doesn’t work for you, then it doesn’t. Always your choice and people should respect that. 😀
I totally agree and I think we should enjoy our little pleasures, doesn’t matter what age we are. Life is way too short. ♥
Yup – indeed! 🙂