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Scottish Highland Games Weekend.

4/18/2012

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2/24/12
In true President of a Whisky Club fashion, our fearless leader, Todd, cracked open a bottle of some stuff we had not tried to get us going before the evening's tasting at the Hill Top Restaurant. Like a true Club taster I left  my tasting note book at home and was forced to write my notes on hotel stationary. Yes the stupid little square pads of paper. They do fit in a sporran rather nicely though. Here's what I wrote:

Glenmorangie Artein Private Edition      15 yr    46% ABV
Aged in Tuscany wine casks
    Smells sweet like a pastry
    Very Dry!
    Can taste the wine.
    Trails off like red table wine. 
    Didn't taste as good as it smelled (Aly and Donna might say I likes this - less.)

Aly and I brought a Balvenie Caribbean Cask 14 yr     40% ABV
    Stronger alcohol smell, slightly woody
    No strong flavor
    Trails alcohol and stays in your mouth. 
    I thought the rum would have made it sweeter. Rather bland.

Scottish Highland Games Whisky Tasting at the Hill Top Restaurant
It was hosted by some Scottish guy whose name I have forgotten. He talked way too much about nothing and much too little about the whisky. It felt like a two hour sitcom on the radio. The framed artwork that Aly won has already fallen off the wall and scared the crap out of us one night. I was ready to kill a burglar but it was broken picture frame glass and not the window. That was a tangent much like the host of the tasting.
Anyway, we tasted a flight of Glefiddichs. It is apparently William Grant and Sons' 125th Anniversary.  

Glenfiddich 12 yr
    Slightly floral with a staleness and a pear smell. I actually sensed the pear before it  
    was mentioned. 
    Taste- Very light!! Wood/oak taste.
    Trails faintly sweet. 
    Much weaker with water. 
Glenfiddich 15 yr Solera Vat
    Strong alcohol with very little flavor
    Water added- No flavor!
    Finished off for a few months in a barrel not previously used. (Is my note right?)
    [ask for Bryan in the distillery - stick head in vat] this was written on my note not 
    by me     (Was I drunk at this point?)
Glenfiddich 18 yr
    Faintly floral/sweet
    Sweet at first with strong alcohol
    Added water - lighter wood
    Bitter wood with sweetness
    Trails almost rubber  {hint for Aly and Donna: Not fond of rubber in my whysky}
Glenfiddich 15 yr old Limited Release 51% ABV
 Not being sold in US anymore
 90% of time in American Oak/10% of time in Sherry casks
    Strong alcohol taste/peppery
    Creamy wood with water
    Trails wet
There may have been a fifth whisky that I have lost my notes for or I have forgotten and there were only four. I must have been drinking..........
    
  
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