Saturday, March 8, 2014

Whiskey trading and tasting......

As part of a larger whiskey enthusiast community, participating in tastings (both known and blind) and trading samples is part of sharing the passion.  Over the years I've acquired a rather large collection of sample bottles.  For many I know the provenance but for others, I have no idea.  The whiskey samples include bourbon, rye, craft, Scotch, Irish, Canadian and out of production.  I know I have a couple samples that date back to shortly after prohibition as well as older samples of Mt. Vernon Rye from the 30's, Very Old Fitzgerald from the 50's and Old Fitzgerald Bottled in Bond from the 50's

I've always intended to pull samples and go through them but my intentions have never materialized into actual execution.  I routinely attend tastings and we're always thinking of various themes to try. One recently focused on various expressions of Glenmorangie.  I'm planning a tasting for sometime this spring so I'm thinking of using these 2-4 oz sample bottles in a tasting where I may know the provenance or may not so basically a grab bag tasting.

The nice thing about swapping samples is trying expressions you may have never tried or don't want to invest the capital into a whole bottle.  A 2 or 4oz sample is a nice "try it" pour before committing.

Guess it's time to take stock of what I have and start digging in.

4 comments:

  1. may be a duplicate but just found 2 bottles of old fitz bib 100 proof distilled at dsp 16 with 01 in left of bottom and 94 in right one with 10A and other 15A in middle --

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    1. That's a late bottling of SW bourbon. The distillery shut down just prior to 1994.

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  2. thanks I enjoy your blog and information---really liked the idea of "dusty bottles" but is difficult here in Ky although I did find these and also found a bottle of Paul Jones bottled in 89 and Colonel Lee bottled in 82---will sample these in the near future--never know what one may run across----thanks for your insight

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    1. You're welcome and thanks for stopping by.

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