Here is the customary look ahead to the month’s action on the blog. On the food front my goal is to finally wrap up my reports from London last June (!) and also finish my Bombay reports from December. I’ll squeeze a few Twin Cities reports in there as well. My goal for the year is to better explore the current state of the Indian restaurant scene here. I have an optimistic theory that it may be improving with growing numbers of Indian immigrants.

On the booze front, I will likely have more brandy and rum reviews than usual. In my review of the Baraillon 33 earlier this week I noted that I’ve been buying Armagnac that I have not actually been opening. To a lesser degree that’s true of rum as well. This will accordingly be the month that I open some of those bottles. There’ll also be a steady diet of whisky reviews. The long list follows—let me know in the comments as per usual if there are any you’d vote to the short list. 

1. Ardmore 22, 1996 (Old Malt Cask 20th Anniversary Release)
2. Auchroisk 24, 1994 (Old Malt Cask 20th Anniversary Release)
3. Baraillon 33, 1984 (Armagnac)
4. Blair Athol 22, 1995 (First Editions)
5. Bowmore 21, 1996 (Old Malt Cask)
6. Bowmore 22, 1996 (Old Malt Cask for K&L)
7. Bowmore 30, Sea Dragon
8. Caol Ila 33, 1984 (Gordon & MacPhail)
9. Foursquare 11, 2004 (Rum)
10. Glen Garioch 24, 1993 (Old Malt Cask 20th Anniversary Release)
11. Glenlivet Nadurra, Oloroso
12. Glentauchers 20, 1997 (Signatory)
13. Heaven Hill 6, Bottled in Bond
14. Highland Park 12, Recent release
15. Inchgower 20, 1998 (Old Malt Cask 20th Anniversary Release)
16. Kavalan Peaty Cask
17. Lagavulin 16, 2013 release
18. Laphroaig 17, 1999 (SMWS 29.190)
19. Ledaig 10, 2007, Pomerol Cask Finish (Chieftain’s)
20. Ledaig 11, Time Series IV (The Whisky Exchange)
21. Les Bidets 35, 1982 (L’Encantada, Armagnac)
22. Pellehaut 17, 2000 (Armagnac)
23. Springbank 11, Local Barley
24. Springbank 15, 2017 release
25. Talisker 8, Older release
26. Tamdhu 20, 1998 (Old Malt Cask 20th Anniversary Release)
27. Teaninich 19, 1999 (Old Malt Cask 20th Anniversary Release)
28. Teaninich 29, 1983 (Signatory)
29. Tomatin 15
30. Vallein Tercinier, Lot 70 (Cognac)
31. Worthy Park 10, 2007 (Habitation Velier, Rum)
32. Worthy Park 11 (Cadenhead’s, Rum)