Tasting #61: Single Cask Nation

Tasting #61: Single Cask Nation

Tasting #61: Single Cask Nation

On Wednesday, October 14th, the Saratoga Whiskey Club had its 61st tasting! We were joined by Jason from Single Cask Nation to go through their company’s history and to taste some of their great whiskies! It was a really informative tasting about their philosophy, palate and how they go about selecting casks. We had six different whiskies to sample and they were all very good.

Here is what we tasted:

  • Stones of Stenness 19 Year Orkney Single Malt Scotch
  • Milk & Honey 2 Year Single Malt
  • Blended Malt 10 Year
  • Aultmore 8 Year Single Malt Scotch
  • Aultmore 30 Year Single Malt Scotch
  • Ruadh Mohr (Glenturret) 10 Year Single Malt Scotch

32 members were online using Zoom for this really fun and rare tasting!!

For scores, please visit our Scores page.

Tasting #42: SMWS November Releases

Tasting #42: SMWS November Releases

Tasting #42: SMWS November Releases

On Wednesday, November 6th, the Saratoga Whiskey Club had its 42nd tasting as a club! The theme of this tasting was New November Releases from the Scotch Malt Whisky Society. We will be doing similar tastings once a quarter going forward as we really enjoy tasting some of the new expressions that are being released. 25 members were in attendance for this outing!

Here is a list of the whiskies we tasted:

  • SMWS 1.211 – Glenfarclas – 8 YR ‘Ironing a lemon’
  • SMWS 64.111 – Mannochmore – 8 YR ‘Pleasing sweetness, playful heat’ 
  • SMWS 44.114 – Craigellachie – 12 YR ‘Sweet peas and toffee trees’
  • SMWS 9.167 – Glen Grant – 23 YR ‘Part of the furniture’
  • SMWS 16.39 – Glenturret – 18 YR ‘Sweetness and spice laced with mystery’
  • SMWS 73.114 – Aultmore – 17 YR ‘Total eclipse of oloroso’
  • SMWS 10.176 – Bunnahabhain – 11 YR ‘Tea-smoked salmon’
  • SMWS 53.276 – Caol Ila – 6 YR ‘Ein kleiner deutscher samurai’

It was a fantastic night of tasting new expressions. 

Check out the scores! Scores

Slainte!

Tasting #25 Recap: A Scotland Tour

Tasting #25 Recap: A Scotland Tour

Tasting #25 Recap: A Scotland Tour

On Wednesdays, October 24 and November 28, the Saratoga Whiskey Club had great tastings of bottles that were brought back from Scotland on the 9 Maple Scotland Tour in September. The Tour focused primarily on the Speyside and Upper Highlands region of Scotland. A total of 22 members took part in this tasting.

Here is a list of the whiskies we tasted:

  • Balblair ’91 – 27 year
  • The Singleton of Glen Ord – Distillery Exclusive – 14 Year
  • Gordon & MacPhail’s Glenturret 14 Year Shop Exclusive – Spirit of Speyside edition
  • The Arran Wee Double 10 Year
  • Aberlour Hand-Filled 13 Year Sherry
  • Tomatin Hand-Filled 16 Year Pedro Ximenez

For scores from the tasting, please go to Scores.

It was a fun tasting and a great recap of our Tour to Scotland.

Cheers!