It is the 10th of February 2010 and Jim and Nicola are heading for The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) in Edinburgh for a tasting of the newest Outturn with Olaf their Malt Whisky Ambassador.
We duly arrived at the sumptious premises and shown up to the top floor suite where all the glasses / water [...]

Jim was asked round to Nicola’s on Sunday February 7th to have a wee tasting, Dougie, due to some family commitments was unable to attend, so like soldier’s Jim and Nicola just had to forge ahead.

There are only two Whisky Boys round at Jim’s house for this tasting on the evening of Tuesday 26th January, Dougie due to work commitments was sadly missed on this tasting night.
So Jim and Nicola were left to open and savour the joys of an island malt from the Tobermory Distillery on the Island of [...]

It is now Friday evening on January the 8th and we are now about to do our second tasting of the new year, a 12 year old Knockando.

Again we are all sitting around Jim’s tasting table with Dougie about to oblige by opening this we dram.

The three Whisky Boys gathered for our first tasting of 2010, it was at Jim’s hoose at about 7pm on Thursday 7th January.
We chatted for a little while and all agreed that we had all had a great festive season, with some nice Single malts being given and received as gifts.
So tonight’s tasting is a [...]

It is Saturday the 10th of December and only two week until Christmas Eve. The three Whisky Boys are at Jim’s sitting around the tasting table with two drams about to be tasted, the first is a Glenfiddich 15 Year Old (this one from Nicola’s stock purchased en-route back from Las Vegas) and the second [...]

Well it’s us again with our second tasting done at Nicola’s on Wednesday 2nd December 2009, as I said earlier, this month has started off so well indeed.
Our second tasting tonight is Bunnahabhain Darach Ur. an Islay Malt, Jim and Dougie are certainly looking forward to this one.
The beautiful Island of Islay, also known as [...]

December has started off very well for the Whisky Boys, Jim and Dougie headed down to Nicola’s for a double tasting.
So it was Wednesday 2nd December about 7 pm and Nicola had everything ready for tonight’s tasting, and the first was a special one indeed, if you read our review of the Auchentoshan Distillery Festival [...]

A Saturday night ( 21st Nov 2009 ) and it was only Jim and Dougie in attendance for this little tasting of a Glenfiddich 12 Year Old Single Malt Caoran Reserve.
Around Dougies table in his games room we sat and opened this grand wee dram.
Set in the heart of the Highlands, Glenfiddich (meaning ‘Valley of [...]

Thursday 19th November 2009, the day after we tasted the Douglas Laing’s bottling of the 11 Year old Macallan, so Jim and Dougie were still in the mood for another special tasting and this taster size bottle of Big Peat was supplied by our ‘new best friends’ up at Douglas Laing & Company (www.douglaslaingwhisky.com) was right [...]