BenRiach and GlenDronach at the Quaich Society
All aboard for six of the best from Scotland's Highlands. Bens and Glens characterise the Scottish landscape. Bens are the high bits, and the glens the gaps in between them. That’s Scotland pretty much...
View ArticleMorrison Bowmore at the Quaich Society (2)
The six super serves at the Morrison Bowmore Quaich Society tasting. If ‘Holy Triumvirate’ is going a tad too far, I do get rather excited at the prospect of Morrison Bowmore’s tantalising trio of...
View ArticleCompass Box at the Quaich Society (Again)
For a brand swooping ever onwards and upwards, founder John Glaser is quite prepared to repeat himself now and again. ‘Who here has been to a Compass Box tasting before?’ he asked our assembly of...
View ArticleTomatin at the Quaich Society
Perhaps I’ll embarrass him for saying so, but Alistair Mutch wins gold as far as replying to emails is concerned. No sooner had the proposal for a Tomatin tasting been composed and fired off than an...
View ArticleMovember – Edinburgh Whisky Blog style
‘I expect Charles Maclean will be there,’ I thought to myself as I power-walked along a drizzly Princes Street in Edinburgh last week. Tiger from Edinburgh Whisky Blog had invited me to a whisky...
View ArticleThe Glenlivet at the Quaich Society
The Glenlivet is one of those whiskies people imagine they know all about. You can come by it in supermarkets the length and breadth of the land and seemingly every bar across the globe. But ubiquity...
View ArticleOld Pulteney and Balblair at the Quaich Society
The intriguingly complex Duncansby Head from Old Pulteney. Even above and beyond the extraordinary whiskies we are treated to here at the Quaich Society, the single most important factor in the club is...
View ArticleTalisker at the Quaich Society
The five Taliskers on show recently at the Quaich Society. With twenty-eight distilleries to cherry-pick from, it was perhaps a surprise that David Sinclair of drinks industry giant Diageo arrived in...
View ArticleKilchoman at the Quaich Society
‘James! Great to meet you at last!’ ‘Err, I’m Peter, actually. But don’t worry, it happens a lot.’ When dealing with Kilchoman, plans are likely to change when you least expect them to; new faces...
View ArticleWemyss Malts at the Quaich Society
May is whisky month in Scotland, in case you had wondered why there was a whisky festival going on everywhere from Speyside to London and Glasgow, to your local church hall. Whisky is everywhere for...
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