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
Butthole Whisky. If you recognize where that’s from, welcome to the list I’m on. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or bad thing. Tobermory is made in such a way that specific flavours of pungent notes are forefront. For some of us we enjoy these notes in the form of fermented pickles and blue cheese. For others, they note the same note is… Continue reading Tobermory 23 1995 Maltbarn / Tobermory 12 / Tobermory 10 2008 North Star
Thanks to?@scotchguy.to?for sharing a dram of this with me. Something I’m always looking for is a brash, young, interesting whisky. Usually, that means a full maturation. Usually means something beyond an ex-bourbon cask, something peated, something with an odd mashbill. It doesn’t always mean it will work. And sometimes something else works. So a friend brought out?Tobermory 8 2008 Archives?at a recent tasting. I’ve never… Continue reading Tobermory 8 2008 Archives
Last night the Toronto Whisky Society had a fantastic event with Mike Brisebois of the Distell Group of distilleries (Bunnahabhain, Tobermory/Ledaig, Deanston) and shared some amazing drams with the 30+ attendees! Reviews will trickle onto the site and pictures onto our instagram over the next few weeks, but here are some pics of the event, the highlight of which was an 18yr Distillery Exclusive bottling … Continue reading Distell Group Tasting with Mike Brisebois
Thanks to /u/Davyj0ne5 for the swap. Talking about Tobermory is like talking about the most toxic relationship I ever was in. You see, as an adult, I no longer can just look at it without nuance. Yes, there was mental abuse. Yes, I lashed out in horrible, misogynistic ways that, while true, also don’t help. No, they aren’t a complete monster that isn’t worth sympathy, but they… Continue reading Tobermory 21 1995 Berry Bros. & Rudd
This year has been interesting and a time of new “firsts” for me. No, I didn’t get drilled in the ass, however thanks for asking. One of the actual things I accomplished is I was part of a group that released their own bottling. And for that, I’m quite proud, even if I played a small part (I helped okay the dram at a tasting,… Continue reading Tobermory 21 1995 The Whisky Agency
Thanks to /u/toadpooh for this sample. My history with Tobermory is messy as heck. So time to get my bias out of the way. The first time I reviewed Tobermory, it was part of a meal and was the end of reviewing a lot of whiskies. The second time I did it I did it to prove that while my tasting notes may be off, it… Continue reading Tobermory 1994 Montgomerie’s
A bunch of guys from my church got together for a Robbie Burns scotch night that they’ve held for the past 5 years and I was lucky enough to join in the fun. Everybody brought a bottle and me and another guy put them in the order we felt would be best… avoiding the peat barrier as tomodera would say. I had 8-9 drams, but only … Continue reading Robbie Burns Night 2016
So… like I need more downvotes with the reviews I’ve been putting up on /r/Wine, however, I think I owe this distillery, and /u/reddbdb to keep reviewing them. Thanks to /u/PACitizen for the sample. For those of you wondering, I’m not a fan of Tobermory 10. You can find each of the reviews of it I have done, and each one, though different, sucked for very different… Continue reading Tobermory 15
So I’m currently working on my next multiple review, however I have a couple samples that just can’t be grouped together, no matter how much I think outside the box and attempt to match them like Duplo blocks and the cat. Awhile back, when it was warmer out, I had a Scotch tasting party[1] . It was a great time, and I was able to… Continue reading Tobermory 10 [Re-Review]
A bit of a change of pace from my usual, by the book, tongue in cheek (especially if she’s cute) reviews. By fluke, friends of mine were able to have a Scotch tasting up North recently at my parents cottage on National Scotch Day. If only it were in the US then we would have been official. None the less, of the 12 Scotches we… Continue reading Scotch Day Scotch Tasting and 4 Reviews [Glenlivet 15 French Oak, Glenlivet 16 Nadurra, Glenfiddich 21 Gran Reserva, Tobermory 10 year]
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