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Christmas Gift Tasting

1/11/2013

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For Christmas someone was kind enough to give me a bottle of the water of life. I can't recall having this before so I tasted it, well, wrote down what I tasted. 

*Glen Moray   12 year  Elgin Classic   40%ABV
  -smells slight caramel and earthy
  -almost a grassy smell
  -tastes chalky/earthy with a rubbery undertone
  -trails sour rubber
  -with water - smells slight wood
  -tastes rubbery wood
  -Better without water. It is a light, Speyside
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December 2012 Meeting/Party

1/11/2013

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Our annual December meeting at Myra's (well, second year in a row) was an evening of splendid food and drink with a western theme. Fortunately nobody was speaking Gaelic for it was a western American theme. Drew out-Drew us, of course, with items straight out of his closet. "I'm your Huckleberry. And that's just my game......" 
The whisky tastings for the evening:

*Auchentoshan Classic      No Age Statement      40% ABV
  -smelled very sweet-dessert/bubble gum
  -tastes almost chalky with slight wood
  -with water - loses sweet smell
  -tastes thick and doughy
  -trails wood
  -As expected, a very light whisky

*Auchentoshan Triple Wood  (Bourbon/Oloroso/Pedro Gimenez) 
  -smells strongly of vanilla like a dessert
  -tastes like under-sweetened pastry
  -trails wood, almost chalky
  -with water - tastes of oak w/tinge of sweet
  -trails quickly
  -This is a club favorite. Aly and Donna mark this at one end of their scale, the good end!

*Willett Straight Rye Whiskey         55% ABV 
  -smells strongly of alcohol! Slightly oaky
  -has a strong alcohol head w/rye taste
  -alcohol burns for a long time
  -with water - less alcohol and slight wood taste
  -overpowering rye flavor
  -I don't mind the taste of rye whiskey, although this one is pretty strong. 

*Yamizaki 12 year    43% ABV
  -almost all burn with little taste (Kanpai!!)
  -very slight wood - had to try to taste something
  -with water - sweet at first
  -turns sour wood and trails quickly

*Oban 18 year   Limited Edition  43% ABV
  -smells slightly sweet almost like a bagel (didn't think I was still hungry at 
    this point in the evening)
  -warm like bread at first and trails oak
  -with water - smells earthy like grass
  -tastes sweet pine wood
  -trails slightly wood quickly
  
We also poured more whisky into our own Barrel #210 that night. There is plenty to slosh around with the addition of: Amrut (everybody's favorite), a Buchanan's 12 year and the remainder of the Yamizaki 12 year.  A few days later I poured the bottle of The Glenlivet 12 year in as well. Aly used some of it for cooking for that ef 


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    JM is a long standing member of the Iron Mountain Whiskey Club. 

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