A Christmas gift

[Dancing4dan]

My wife bought me this for Christmas. 24 bottles from around Scotland. 50 ml each. Looking forward to giving them a try.

Comes with tasting notes and descriptions for each sample.

[Bradster68]

Very nice. That's quite a variety. I'd be interested to hear your top 3

[Bushman]

I got a Hakka sausage stuffer and a whiskey smoker from my wife.

Never heard of or seen a smoker for whiskey drinks.

[OtisT]

That’s pretty sweet Dan. I’m sure you’ll enjoy them all.

Bushman, I had to look up what the heck a cocktail smoker was. Very cool. Like a vape pen for your drink. I’ll have to give one of those a try some day.

[still_stirrin]

My wife bought me this for Christmas. 24 bottles from around Scotland. 50 ml each. Looking forward to giving them a try.

Comes with tasting notes and descriptions for each sample.

OMG D4D. Does she have a sister???
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[Dancing4dan]

My wife bought me this for Christmas. 24 bottles from around Scotland. 50 ml each. Looking forward to giving them a try.

Comes with tasting notes and descriptions for each sample.

OMG D4D. Does she have a sister???
ss

[quadra]

Great gift D4D! Kensington wine market does a nice one as well, and they do a weekly virtual tasting recap as it goes along.... They also do a nice prosecco advent calendar as well.

[contrahead]

My recent resolution so to speak was to re-stock the liquor cabinet. It's been drained pretty dry (of commercial booze) in recent years. Even my own stuff can never age – if I keep sipping away at it.

Lately about once a week, I'll buy a prestigious bottle of Brandy, Scotch or something else and sip at that. When another week rolls around I cork that bottle and open something brand new. Slowly but surely, the cabinet is filling again with bottles - that are not empty.

There are many new, fresh to the market liquors on the store shelves these days. Some are good and some are bad. So while I lay in a little traditional stock representative of every liquor genre, I won't be purchasing any of the newfangled tutti-fruti flavored crap, now crowding the shelves. Although there are new craft or artisan distilled spirits that are worthy of a try, many of these are simply overpriced. They haven't earned the prestige necessary to command such a high price.

I did buy one unusual bottle yesterday, out of curiosity. And was pleasantly surprised. It's certainly smoother than some of the hooch that I've made in the past.
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(the whiskey is white – clear as water)

[Dancing4dan]

newfangled tutti-fruti flavored crap

Lol. Every once in a while someone leaves one of those in my cabinet. I add it to a feints run. I’m the only one who drinks spirits but the ladies always want to try something new…. For about as long as it takes for them to taste a new tutti-fruity thing and then return to red wine

[venkman]

That's a super nice Christmas gift. My wife probably figured I'd had enough to drink. I got these.

[Dougmatt]

That's a super nice Christmas gift. My wife probably figured I'd had enough to drink. I got these.

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Man…. She must really love you to buy a Time Machine to go back to the 80’s and buy those socks for you!

[Dancing4dan]

My wife bought me this for Christmas. 24 bottles from around Scotland. 50 ml each. Looking forward to giving them a try.

Comes with tasting notes and descriptions for each sample.

My tastes have changed. Not one of these is to my liking. My wife bought me a bottle of 12 yr old scotch and have the same issue. It tastes very heads forward to me. Every time I drank it resulted in a brutal headache around three in the morning.

Doing a heads cut has ruined my taste for commercial scotch.

[MooseMan]

My wife bought me this for Christmas. 24 bottles from around Scotland. 50 ml each. Looking forward to giving them a try.

Comes with tasting notes and descriptions for each sample.

My tastes have changed. Not one of these is to my liking. My wife bought me a bottle of 12 yr old scotch and have the same issue. It tastes very heads forward to me. Every time I drank it resulted in a brutal headache around three in the morning.

Doing a heads cut has ruined my taste for commercial scotch.

Yes that's very familiar to me too Dan, I mentioned a while back that I ruined one of my friends who used to drink mostly well regarded middle shelf whiskey.

Ever since tasting my still young but tight cut bourbon, and getting to sniff my heads and foreshot bottles, he simply cannot get past how much heads is in commercials.

[Saltbush Bill]

Yep to much heads is horrible imo, many commercial boozes suffer from that affliction.
It's not that long after you start to make proper cuts that you come to this conclusion, and what was once your favourite tipple suddenly becomes......whoooooo wtf this is shit!