So, what are you drinking now?

@A'bunadhman Well done, well done, Dr. A'bunadhman!

Got the chance to try the latest Kilkerran W.I.P 7. good stuff! Sweet peat smoke and oh so tasty

I am currently enjoying a 15 year old Single Cask Ardbeg Cadenhead - bottled at 56%

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Sorry, I actually meant to say I was enjoying a lovely single cask Ardbeg 15 from Cadenhead bottled at 56%

After an Arran 14 that is improving with air, I am with a dram of Redbreast 12. This one is so Irish and has so much honey, it's a classic!

A Rusty Nail made from Ardbeg 10, Orangerie and a lemon twist.

Smoke. Where there's smoke there's fire. The Blue Jays are on fire. Particulate matter from the incindiary bombing of the Tigers, by the Blue Jays, is inescapable, even this far north. Tonight it is Lagavulin 16 and Bruichladdich Octomore 6.1 Scottish Barley, to help me acclimatize.

A flask comprised of "waste" whiskies produced from pouring off some sample bottles:

•Arran 12 CS (which was the first whisky I rinsed through the empty bottles to flush out remnants of previous contents)

•Connemara Cask Stength NAS (which filled one sample bottle, but only after I shook through a couple glugs to rinse out the Arran and then dumped into the flask)

•Springbank 1997 Madeira Cask Strength (same process as the Connemara, different sample bottle)

It's a pretty fiesty little mix.

So many whiskies, so little time. My first bottle of Lagavulin 16yo is waiting to be opened tonight

Busy start to the week with the busiest call day in almost ever Sunday that became Monday and is now Tuesday night and I'm busy on the campaign trail.

Relaxing with (not from) Springboark 12 YO CS Claret Wood and Episode 7 of Coffee Prince.

No that's not a new distillery..it's Sprinkbank

Lagavulin going down a treat with some Moeraki Bay Whitestone Blue cheese. Any kiwis out there will appreciate what I'm talking about

Drinking an Auchentoshan 12 at moment,

For some reason I am in a rare "sherry" mood tonight. So I put a number of heavy hitting sherry cask strength monsters head-to-head:

Aberlour A’Bunda 60.2% Batch 45

Amrut Intermediate Sherry 57.1% No.2 Sept. 2010

Glendronach Cask Strength Batch 2 55.2%

Glenfarclas 105 60%

Kalavan Solist ex-Sherry 57.8%

I was amazed at how different sherry could be. My favorite nose of the night was the Glendronach which totally surprised me. Both the Kalavan and the Amrut were tied for second (nose only) while being radically different. The Glenfarclas 101 was playing in a different ball game. So different from the pack, so offensive, and so endearing. The A'bunadh was the big disappointment. It isn't bad, but it sure did not hold its own on the nose. It only came to life in the finish.

By the end the Amrut Intermediate Sherry emerged as my clear favorite. However, they were all very strong showings. I would buy any of them again . . . except for the A'bunadh batch 45. Thankfully, they keep cranking out the batches. Hope the next one that hits my store is better.

@Nock interesting comments...

I have personally found the Amrut (albeit batch 5) does not do well when matched against other Sherry monsters, unless of course it is the first dram.

The 45 seems to have good reviews, and I did like it. It is better than the 46 but not as good as the 44.

I am happy I have had the chance to try all the whiskies on your list for today (the solist at a spirit of Toronto festival). Usually I am finding myself wishing I could taste the stuff I read about.

Tonight, if I recover from my workout and feel like it, you almost inspired me to have some of the last of my Amrut IS, but as we had a memorial for my father today, if I do have something it will be Canadian club. I don't know if I can go as far as the standard CC, but maybe the 100% rye.

Spent the weekend At my son' home helping him some home remodeling.

In the evening we have been enjoying Old Grand Dad Signature, Old Charter 10y, Woodford Reserve, Johnnie Walker Green, Laphroaig 10y, Dimple Pinch.

He's putting together a little collection.

Ancient Ancient Age 10 Star, followed by Ardbeg Corryvreckan L 11 012.

The AAA10 Star, 45% abv, is a lovely very light bourbon from Buffalo Trace. L 11 012 is "Nock's worst Corryvreckan to date". Actually this L 11 012 Corryvreckan started out as something I considered barely drinkable--nothing at first but a huge wall of sour lemon citrus-- but after the bottle has been open for four years plus, the whisky has evolved enormously and is quite enjoyable now.

Just got back from marching in the labour day parade,then standing in the sun cheering all the trade unions.

Only diet tonic water with lots of ice for me... Maybe tonight a little something special.

Makers 46 while watching Federer vs. Isner (the highest ranked US player) at the US Open.

Redbreast 12 Year Old for a quick nightcap.

Four Roses Small Batch.

Finishing up my work late after a rousing political rally... getting a little "assistance" from Booker's 2015-01 and hoping I am the 01 pick of 2015.

Ardbeg Airigh Nam Beist 1990, 18 yo. Such a lovely whisky.

Glenlivet 16 Nadurra, anniversary gift from my wife, had one 50ml dram last night don't believe this will be around for the next anniversary far to good to have hanging around in the back of the cupboard going stale.

I am alittle bit of a traitor tonight. Drinking Remy Martin Coeur de Cognac with the old boy on his birthday. My apologies whisky connoisseurs.

@Pete1969

It's not the bottle that needs to be around for the next anniversary...

@Tom92 - no need to apologize. For many, the grape is the "Noble Grain"

@Nozinan I was on about the wife not the whisky ????

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@Tom92 fine choice by anyone's standards good quality spirits can be appreciated even if they are not whisky/whiskey. I am partial to rum when the mood takes me.

Aultmore 12yo. 46% abv. non-chill filtered, non coloured: A new expression in an OB. and quite splendid. "Don't look for peat, there isn't any" (Distillery speel). What a wonderful Malt driven 'old school' Whisky! I've looked long and hard at cask an can't find Sherry; I see splinters and perhaps European Virgin Oak (?) and wonderful malt, honeyed rich depth. In fact, this is just what those members are looking for when they request directions to pure Whisky, or it seems to me!...Delightful & spotless: I saw a Famous Samaroli Aultmore some years ago; it wasn't all that much better than this bottle!

Slainte!