As always, we finished off the year with our AGM and heels party! We had about 30 members come out, bring bottles with ~1/3 left, covered off a little business including exec elections for the next few years, and then sampled dozens of great drams together! At the end, we raffle off the leftovers for folks to take home! Sadly we didn’t get a good … Continue reading AGM & Heels Party 2025
We first did a Laphroaig/Bowmore event with Matt Jones way back in 2018, and as many members love these brands, we felt it time for a revisit 7 years later! Working with James Neil and Mike Mclean of Beam Suntory, we pulled together an incredible line-up for both brands. We started with a trio of Bowmore 15 expressions, all showcasing different styles of sherry influence. … Continue reading Laphroig & Bowmore Re-visited
For a couple of years, we’d discussed an idea of trying finished whiskies paired with the wine/sherry types they’re finished in, but it’s hard to find a consistent base spirit that enables this type of tasting. If you’re using all different whiskies as the base, how can you parse out the influence of the wine cask vs the base spirit? Enter Glenallachie! We connected with … Continue reading Finished Whiskies & Wine Pairings
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We teamed up with Kilchoman and Noble Estates, a distillery we hadn’t yet featured in any events before, and had a great line-up of whiskies. These were presented by James Wills, son of the founder of of Kilchoman, and he shared amazing and hilarious stories and anecdotes of his experience working with his family to found, run and grow the distillery into the well respected … Continue reading Kilchoman Tasting with Noble Estates
We brought back an old favourite theme for 2024 – Oddballs! Devon picks out some weird/unique/unusual bottlings and we drink them blind and try to guess what they are. This year had some really interesting ones, which are listed in order that we tasted them (and for those who couldn’t come in person and got samples, this is the order 1-5, avoid if you don’t … Continue reading Oddballs 2024
A couple years ago now we acquired some old malts from the 80s and 90s. We’ve previously tasted some of these at an Ardbeg/Glenmorangie tasting, a vintage blends event and our recent Bruichladdich tasting. We still had 10 vintage malts left and so we decided to throw a huge tasting with half ounce pours of each so our members would have a chance to try … Continue reading Vintage Malts Tasting
In Feb 2024 we held a tasting with a brand we had long hoped to work with – Bruichladdich. Reed Pettit brought a few bottles and we acquired a Laddie 10 from the 90s, along with two experimental bottlings courtesy of a member of the club. The tasting was incredible, the stories and insights Reed shared were equally phenomenal and everyone had an amazing time. … Continue reading Bruichladdich Tasting
We held our AGM as usual in December 2023 and it was a great one, highlighted by amazing food (including a brisket smoked by member Sheps and Canada goose jerky hunted, prepared and cured by founding member and re-elected exec member Bryan. In addition to great food, we had some great whisky, including the leftovers from the 2023 TWS Canadian Single Malt awards, and a … Continue reading 2023 TWS AGM
We don’t know if it’s general inflation or just increased demand (spoiler: it’s inflation), but it seems that every time you turn around, the price of whisky has increased. It’s remarkable how many bottles, including ones well loved and formerly reasonably priced, have become priced out of the “every day” category. Since the holidays are fast approaching, at a recent TWS event, we asked the … Continue reading TWS’s Holiday Gift Guide / Best Whiskies under $100 at the LCBO
Last year we acquired a collection of vintage malts and blends and have a series of events lined up to drink them with the club. The first of these was our Ardbeg tasting with Bry Simpson earlier this year which featured an Ardbeg 10 from the 80s. The next vintage tasting was comprised of the many old blends we received, and there were some real … Continue reading Vintage Blends Tasting
This whisky has been staring me in the face behind the bar at my pub for ages, and I’ve finally gone and tried it. There’s more to this that meets the eye. The distillery that’s known today as Clynelish was built in 1967, right next door to the original Clynelish distillery which was renamed “Brora”. Bizarrely, up until the mid-70s, it was common practice for … Continue reading [Review] Clynelish 12 Gordon & MacPhail “Ainslie & Heilbron” (bottled ~1984)
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