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Why don’t you read the definitive whisky tasting guidelines

Gerry Tosh explains some tips about how to taste whisky. I find them quite interesting. One of the best parts is about nosing the whisky, and if you can follow him with a glass of whisky and it is incredible how good their tips about nosing three times are.

What do you think? How do you taste whisky?

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This year Whisky Bible by Jim Murray is out.

This year best whisky ( or that’s what Jim Murray says ) is Ballantine’s 17 Years Old.

I haven’t tried this one, so I will perhaps do a visit to my shop and get one bottle to give it a try. Anyway I think that Jim scores blends too high, even when he states that he is more strict with blends that with single malts because blenders can get the very best of each distillery and create a great whisky.

On second place we have Thomas H Handy Sazerac Rye and in third William Larue Welle. Both of them american whiskeys and both of them out of my reach :-P.  It is so hard and expensive to get good whiskey at Europe.

Well, no matter what, I stay stick to my glass of Nikka Yoichi 10 years old. A great dram of which I will post a review soon.

Any thoughts on Jim’s selection?

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I explain how I take the bottles’ photos to look good enough on an extra low budget.

First of all, the things that you are going to need:

• One big piece of white pasteboard
• A tripod
• A camera
• A camera remote control
• One big box

Then make sure your have enough room. Between camera and the bottle you will need around 1.5-2 meters.

How to use tripod and cardboard to take photos

So now that you have that setup, you have to make sure that the room is well lighted but that the pasteboard doesn’t get direct sun light.

Now get your camera and make sure that the ISO settings is set to the lowest possible, so the exposure time will be very high but as we are shooting from the tripod we don’t care about it.

Now move away from behind the camera and … SHOOT!.

You will get something like this:

A raw photo of a bottle

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What a great time!

When I saw the Friends of Laphroaig email at my inbox I could believe what I was reading. They were going to do it at Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. Very near in fact from where I live.

So I said myself it was time to write and beg for an invitation :)

And I got it!.

The event was done at Bodegas Fundador at Jerez. An awesome really old winery owned by Pedro Domecq.

Bodegas Fundador Jerez de la Frontera

We tasted Laphroaig Quarter Cask, Laphroaig Triplewood and Harvey’s Bristol Cream Sherry. We also were served two tapas: “Pulpo a la Gallega” and “Carne en salsa”, both very tasty.

Here is the broadcast

When the broadcast finished, we were invited to have something else inside the winery in big hall. We were gaven more food and more whisky :). I tasted there too the Laphroaig 25 years old and the Laphroaig Cairdeas Feis Ile 2010.

Unfortunately as I had to drive I couldn’t enjoy as much as I would have liked.

The night was great, I had the taste of the Laphroaig 25 years on my mouth for four days. What a great whisky.

John Campbell signed me one bottle of Laphroaig Quarter Cask.

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