2020 has been quite the year, and your Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Festivus celebrations are likely to look a little different than normal, but that doesn’t mean you won’t be buying whisky for your friends and family! We’ve put together an updated 2020 Gift Guide to help you find the best options at the LCBO! WHISKY $61 AND UNDER Wild Turkey 101 – a great bourbon for $38 currently … Continue reading 2020 Holiday Whisky Gift Guide
This is a continuation of my ongoing series that I’m calling “Scotch Malts, Wife’s Selection”, in which my wife goes through my backlog of SMWS (Scotch Malt Whisky Society) samples that I haven’t reviewed yet, pours them blind, and then I review it blind. Sometimes, when I’m feeling down, I buy things that make me laugh. I know it’s not the best idea, however that usually… Continue reading Aberlour SMWS 54.40 “Carefree entertainment”
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. When people talk about the good ole days, I, as a Millenial, immediately think they are a crazy racist and hope for a time I only assume… Continue reading Aberlour 10 (1990s bottling)
Thanks to /u/devoz for this sample. When one says “Aberlour”, what comes to mind? If you said “Sherry Casks”, you may have thought I said Glenfarclas. Or maybe not. If we look through the Aberlour line-up, it would seem that they have stocks in the Spanish fortified wine market. Or rather they’ve figured out their juice melds well with some sherry influence. And there’s nothing wrong… Continue reading Aberlour SMWS 54.38 “Confectionery and carpenters”
As many of you know, I live in the Great White Land-of-Provincial-Liquor-Regulation, and our prices for whisky suck. See, the government had this whole prohibition idea, and then when it ended, they decided they still needed to babysit us and ensure we didn’t drink too much. Thus was born the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, which today has morphed into a retailing giant that spends … Continue reading Aberlour A’bunadh Three-Way Review: Batches 6, 46 & 53
2016 was a fantastic year for the members of the Toronto Whisky Society, for many reasons: We launched our website and social media presence after existing primarily on Reddit for the past few years We held a number of highly successful events in homes, at pubs and at distilleries We made connections with a ton of distilleries to set up future events, AMAs and tastings … Continue reading Toronto Whisky Society’s Whiskies of the Year 2016
Aberlour A’Bunadh Batch #06 // 59.9% ABV // $100 CDN Found this beauty just sitting on the LCBO shelf a few days before Christmas 2015, hesitated on pulling the trigger for a few days but eventually came to my senses and snagged it up. I am going on the assumption that because it was bottled in 1999, and these bottles are typically min 10 years … Continue reading Review – Aberlour A’Bunadh Batch #06
bought this one in 2013 after reading glowing reviews of the 12yr NCF edition, seeing the LCBO price and thinking whoa! what a deal! turns out this is the double cask matured, which is slightly different. Aberlour 12 Double Cask matured: 43% ABV Appearance: reddish gold colour. probably darkest of the bottles in my collection. Nose: sweet sherry, some fruit… can’t pick it out. not … Continue reading Review: Aberlour 12 Double Cask
Thanks to /u/slackerdude for this sample. I think. Correct me if I’m wrong. There’s an odd reaction I have when I’m offered a dusty. On the one hand, I want to give someone what they would get. On the other hand: Some of you motherfuckers are crazy when it comes to dusties. And that drives up the price. And that means I gotta offer more.… Continue reading Aberlour a’bunadh batch 6
So I’m nervous. Nervous as heck. I’m about to meet a bunch of whisky nerds, who I’ve only met a few of, on a few occasions, and I’m going to drink with them. What if they try to murderize me? Wait, that’s silly, the Internet is a safe place. What if I don’t meet some odd belief everyone has in me? I mean, what if… Continue reading Aberlour 16 [Feather’s Flight Review Set #9]
Memories of Ice Storm ’98. I was living in Montreal, was a teenager, had just gotten back to School and heard all the teachers give us the same old speech about being behind and needing to catch up. Our house had been broken into, so we were in the process of assessing everything that was taken, and then the whole world froze over. On the… Continue reading Aberlour 12 Non Chill-Filtered
Last night in Edinburough, and wow, I’m tired. I swear I’ve walked up and down the Royal Mile 6 times, up an extinct volcano, and shopped at Cadenhead’s twice. I’ve had enough Haggis to kill most of the sheep in the area. It’s brilliant. I think all this exercise deserves a reward. A nice reward that makes other whiskies pale in comparison. This is the… Continue reading Aberlour A’bunadh
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