January is at an end and so (almost) are my travels. I will be back in Minnesota in a couple of days and drinking again (I’ve barely had a drink in a month). And the blog will be back to something resembling normal operations as well. That is to say there will be more whisky than food posts in February. I do still have a few restaurant reviews from Delhi left to post, and I haven’t even started yet on our meals in Hong Kong (where I am typing this), but there’ll be more whisky than food posts each week in February. We are moving house at the end of the month, though, and the excessive whisky collection was boxed up before I left town in December—as a result, reviews in February, and probably March too, will be almost entirely of samples that are more easily to hand (I cleverly did not label the boxes in which I packed my regular bottles). 

Here is the long list of potential reviews. As always, feel free to nominate ones you’d like to see reviewed for sure.

Auchentoshan Heartwood
Balvenie 17, Peated Cask
Benriach 27, 1984, Peated/Tawny Port Finish
Benriach 34, 1977, PX Cask 1034
Brora 25, 7th Release
Brora 30, 5th Release
Caol Ila 16, 1998 (Wilson & Morgan)
Caol Ila 27, 1984 (Douglas Laing Old & Rare)
Colonel E.H. Taylor Jr. Small Batch, Bottled in Bond
Colonel E.H. Taylor Jr. 17, Cured Oak
Elijah Craig 18
Four Roses Single Barrel, OBSV, for Paws & Claws
Glen Elgin 15, Manager’s Dram
Highland Park 12 (for Twin Liquors)
Highland Park 16, 1995 (A.D. Rattray)
Lagavulin “Distillery Only”, 2010 Release
Longmorn 46, 1964 (Gordon and MacPhail for van Wees)
Longrow 18, 2008
Macduff 31, 1980 (Wilson & Morgan)
Old Grand-Dad, 80 Proof
Port Ellen, Elements of Islay Pe5 (Speciality Drinks)
Pulteney 8, 1990 (Cadenhead’s)
Springbank 1998-2015, Sherry Hogshead (Malts of Scotland)
Springbank 1998-2014, Rum Cask (Malts of Scotland)
Strathisla 25 (Gordon & MacPhail)
Redbreast 12 CS
Teeling Whiskey
Willett 8, Barrel 1434, Wheated
Willett 11, Barrel 2364 (for the Wine and Cheese Shop)
Yoichi 27, 1987 (SMWS)