I recently had the chance to try a sample of the upcoming Toronto Whisky Society bottling. More on that in the future. Far into the future. Unless you ask or are part of it, then you’ll find out.

So we tried the sample of the bottling, had some excellent snacks (provided by Igor’s wife, who is brilliant at baking), and then some Turkish coffee to clear out the peat we had. I assumed we were good.

But Igor is a good host, and offered to open a nice bottle to celebrate. Thus we Littlemill 26 The Whisky Agency Bottled Letters was opened, given time to open up, and we tried some of this half on half out Lowland.

The reason I call it that is because buying Littlemill is a gambit. Some of them are quite nice. Others? Not so much. This isn’t like buying Brora or St. Magdalene, where…