On Thursday and Friday, the 17th and 18th respectively, the Wade Bales Wine & Malt Whisky Affair 2013 promises 50 malts including The Balvenie 12 Year Old Double Wood, The Macallan, Ardbeg, Bunnahabhain, Talisker 10 Year Old, The Glenfiddich 19 Year Old Age of Discovery and Nikka.
Master Classes in Whisky and Wine will also be available.
If, like me, you can’t make it up country for the Whisky Live Fest this looks to be an excellent substitute.
Coming up this week, the Compass Box Whisky Tasting & Blending Workshop will be hosted by Aficionado’s in Cape Town at Blakes.
The Great King Street expression was Aficionado’s Mystery Whisky of September and I’m looking forward to tasting the other expressions.
Say “Honey badger don’t care”, then down the drink.
If you did not find yourself raising a dram to your computer screen at 2 in the morning on the 27th of September, you can catch the action here: Laphroaig Live 2013.
I found John Campbell’s notes on the whisky’s very interesting, and I can’t quite wrap my head around the idea of Laphroaig cocktails. How does that even work? I’m curious to try, if anyone knows a bartender who makes a good Smoking Gun, Penicillin, or Honey Badger let me know.
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