April brought another trip to Jakarta and Singapore – naturally fitting in a whisky flight too!

Plus two of our whisky groups met up and I revived my “mini” session too – with notes to follow in the coming months…

Whisky Ladies explore Master Distiller Rachel Barrie’s Bowmore Travel Trilogy:

• Blackrock 40% – Smoked fruit, sweet peat spice, easy to drink
• Gold Reef 43% – Maple syrup peat with bitter chocolate and honey sweet finish
• White Sands 17 year 43% – Our favourite of the trio!

Finally got around to sharing our February Original’s Undisclosed Distillery session with the BMC lads:

• Sansibar Islay 8 year 52.2% – Fresh muted peat with an evolving character, well rounded
• Port Askaig 19 year 50.4% – Sufficiently complex to to keep it interesting, for a peaty whisky quite elegant
• Wilson & Morgan “Highland Heart” Sherry Cask 43% – Rich marmalade, incredibly smooth and rounded… a rather regal whisky you simply want to curl up and enjoy

Our original group had a celebration of NAS whiskies:

• Guillon Banyuls (2015) 43% – Technically is a ‘malted spirit’ not whisky…
• Oban Little Bay 43% – A new party whisky?
• Arran Port Cask 50% – Fruity nose that kept evolving, red sour plums and long finish
• Kavalan Peaty Cask R091214006A Bottle No 043/137 54.8% – Curl of peat around a delicious dram

I also managed to swing through Singapore twice in March and April with stops at:

• La Maison du Whisky Singapore Renewed!
• The Single Cask with two flights and a single dram…

• 1st Flight – “Whisky guessing game” with Cask Islay 46%, Dun Bheagan Islay 43%, Finlaggan Cask Strength 58%, Islay Storm 40%
• 2nd Flight – A lighter touch with: Deanston 15 years (1997/2013) Cask No 1958 45.8%, Glen Moray 21 year (1991/2013) Cask No 9980 46%, Glentauchers 18 years (1996/2014) 2 casks 46%, Miltonduff 21 year (1995/2016) 45.8%
• Single dram – Ben Nevis 19 year (1996/2016) Cask No 871 45.1%

There were a few more notes sharing Whisky Live Singapore explorations:

• Whisky Live Singapore – Bruichladdich
• Whisky Live Singapore – Balvenie
• Lost Distillery 1 – Auchnagie, Stratheden, Towiemore
• Lost Distillery 2 – Jericho, Gersten, Lossit, Auchnagie

Plus the last from the archives:

• Whisky Archives – Cracking open the cabinet…

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

• Whisky Lady – March
• Whisky Lady – February
• Whisky Lady – January

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