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Just a quick snap of the final dram of Whisky Advent 2024, right as my Christmas Eve guests were set to arrive. Just posed things on the sideboard in my dining room, with the table of sweets I've been baking over the last few days in the background.
Merry Christmas!
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Another night of prep. This was taken as I was about to trim that big slab of Florentine bars in the background down into individual cookies. The dram's an expression I haven't had before from a distillery that's a nostalgic thing for me: Mortlach 21 Special Release 2020, cask strength at 56.9%ABV.
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Fully into Christmas Eve prep now, so here's today's dram with the apple-rye-brown butter blondies I just pulled out of the oven. It's Caol Ila 32 Year Old 1991 Old & Rare Platinum from Hunter Laing, 41%ABV, which went into a cask the year I graduated from college and is the second in a row that has spent more time maturing than my adult children.
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Makin' my Ten Spice syrup recipe on Day 21, now that I'm in prep-for-Christmas-Eve mode. The dram keeping me company is The Character of Islay Fiona Macleod 33 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky, from an unnamed Islay distillery. It's named for the pseudonym of Scottish writer and poet William Sharp (an interesting story in and of itself, told well recently on The Allusionist podcast).
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Day 20's whisky with day 20's dinner: beef stew and biscuits. The whisky is That Boutique-y Whisky Company's bottling of Glengoyne 17, Batch 1, at 49.1%ABV. The beef stew and biscuits are homemade, and delicious.
Dried fruit, vanilla, orange, and cinnamon on the nose; vanilla, honey, figs, orange marmalade, and a whiff of leather on the palate; the finish gives way to walnuts, cocoa, and some woody tannins. Leans a bit sweet for me.
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Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs, crawl through an air duct, cause an explosion, maybe defenestrate a German guy… man, that was *not* the Christmas party I expected. Anyone know if bearer bonds are still valid with a little bit of char on them? Yippee-ki-yay. This fists-with-your-feet thing sure works better without the broken glass.
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Day 18 is my annual calendar signing night, apparently. The year before I started this whole whisky Advent calendar project, I began putting together photo calendars for my Scout camp's alumni association from my photography at the camp. I do all the work, sign and number the series, cover the printing, shipping, and credit card handling costs, and donate 100% of the price to the association.
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Got home from the Jacques Pépin book signing/dinner tonight to dram 17, Seaweed & Aeons & Digging & Fire & Cask Strength 10 Year Old (Batch 04), a partly sherry-finished single malt from an unnamed Islay distillery @ 58.3%ABV.
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Day 16 of Whisky Advent is a mouthful: Douglas Laing's Old Particular Fanatical About Flavor Teaninch 12 year old 2009 (cask 15437), a single cask single malt. Lemon, hay, and something sweet on the nose; malty sweetness, cocoa, and warm spices on the palate with just a little bit of peat; the peat comes out a bit more along with clove and allspice on the finish. Very, very tasty tipple.
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Lochlea single-cask Ex-Bourbon single malt at a healthy 60.2% ABV cask strength for Day 15.
I get some vanilla and green apple on the nose; more apples and pears on the palate, with some malt that lingers into the finish, which has some pepper-y, ginger-y heat from the alcohol. Nice and smooth, though, despite the strength. Lovely for a young whisky.
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Behind door 14 was That Boutique-y Whisky Company's Ardmore Batch 9 19-year-old single malt at 50.2%ABV. Dried fruit rule the day here: strong on the nose, with a bit of sea air and lemon; turning to toffee and fruitcake on the palate with a whiff of smoke; and fading to prunes and a bit of oak on the finish. I liked this one quite a bit, but a full bottle is spendy.
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Day 13 is Glenfarclas' 25-year-old expression, finished in ex-Oloroso sherry, 43%ABV. This is the oldest of theirs I've tasted—I've had the 21 and the 15 before. Like the others, a big ol' sherry bomb. Right up front on the nose, along with vanilla, citrus, and leather; thick caramel, vanilla, orange peel, oak, and smoke on the palate; with a sweet finish that is oaky. 25 years in a barrel'll do that.
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Simple shot tonight. I try one along these lines almost every year; one day I'll figure out the lighting combination that gets me what I'm actually looking for. This is close.
The dram behind door 12 was the Kilchoman Sanaig, a NAS peated sherry-finished Islay single malt at 46% ABV.
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Another day that got away from me, between a late stay at the office and nasty weather traffic on the ride home.
Late nightcap also means quick photo; decided to grab a few of the analog cameras to frame things. I've always had a bit of a soft spot for Polaroids, mostly because my grandfather worked for them for years, driving a forklift around their facility in New Bedford.
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Day 9 got away from me, so a quick photo of what has turned into a nightcap. The dram is Benriach's “The Smokey Twelve”, a (minimally) 12-year-old Speyside single malt that combines whiskies finished in bourbon, sherry, and Marsala, 46%ABV.
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The quick photo just backlights the Glencairn glass on an old cranberry box. What can I say? I like the way the texture of this old wood comes across in a photo.
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