A couple of weeks ago the tasting of the evening was from five closed distilleries, a very enjoyable sitdown with a large crowd at the local nmwl. Littlemill, 1991, 16 yo, 46 % (Murray McDavid) Nose: this has to be one of the stranges associations I’ve ever had in a whisky – every year at [...]
A couple of weeks ago I sat down on a nmwl with 5 10yo whiskies in front of me to taste blind. This is always a good exercise since you don’t pre-judge based on the label of the bottle, everyone should try this from time to time just to see what happens. We got a [...]
Wednesday the target for the evening was jekylls in Oslo, a wonderful pub with a range of good whiskies and a competent staff that alwyas is there to help you out with suggestions and information on bottles. It’s also the only pub in Norway with a cask behind the bar: a Highland Park 12yo sherry [...]
nmwl is the Norwegian Malt Whisky Society, and once a month we meet up 30-40 people or so and taste our way through a lot of good whisky. The first meeting of 2009 took place on wednesday in the new meeting place in Oslo, and the topic of the night was “Old whisky”. Last year [...]