About three weeks ago I absently remarked on Twitter that a head-to-head-to-head tasting of the three 21 year-old Canadian whiskies that I had in my cabinet (Danfield’s Limited Edition 21 year-old; opened), and on my storage shelf (Collingwood 21 year-old and Century Reserve 21 year-old; unopened), would be an interesting endeavour…and things sort ( Read more... )

This week is a bit of a first for me; for two reasons: 1) on Saturday night (the 30th), which also happens to be Saint Andrew's Day, I'll be attending a Whisky Tasting Fundraiser at the Diefenbunker Museum in Carp, Ontario, with a number of the other members of our informal Whisky Club; and 2) on Tuesday of this week (the 26th) I participated in ( Read more... )

On my way home from work on Friday I stopped at the LCBO and picked up a bottle of Highwood Distillers Centennial 10 year-old Limited Edition Canadian Rye Whisky.  It was a reward for the week of extremely hard work that I'd put in coordinating a training course (I also delivered some of the training, but mostly I had to be there to organize ( Read more... )