tire-bouchon...

Continuing with the world's top three selling whisky brands... Today is day 2 and the brand is McDowell's No.1. Owned by United Spirits/Diageo McDowell's No.1 sold 25.5 million cases in 2016 securing the title of second best selling whisky in the world. * I do have two different botllings on my desk though... I will take a wild guess and assume that "Platinum" has a higher rank than "Luxury" in the line-up just because it comes in a glass bottle not in a plastic one like "Luxury". So let's start with "Luxury"... McDowell's No.1 Luxury (42.8%): Color: Yellow gold with again thin but slow moving legs. Nose: Sweet with touch of smoke... That's surprising, isn't it? But soon enough alcohol rises up in the glass and kinda kills all our hopes about the nose. Now the smoke is purely medicinal but in a good way: First aid closet, hydrogen peroxide and gauze pads. Palate: Industrial alcohol with hints of ins...

remembering dad...

I cannot believe it's been a year... Raif Karasu (1931 - 2010)

top ten of my 2012...

1. best trip: London , England 2. best dram: Flaming Heart 2012 (4th release) by Compass Box 3. best brew: Aecht Schlenkerla Eiche Doppelbock 4. best bar: Witzli Poetzli , Antwerp 5. best restaurant: St. John Bread and Wine , London 6. best album: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds by Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 7. best movie: Gerhard Richter Painting by Corinna Belz 8. best website/blog: Love Scottish Islands by Lee Allen 9. best live performance: The Cinematic Orchestra at The Barbican , London 10. best book: Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations by Norman Davies

Compass Box Great King Street Glasgow Blend (revisited)...

Compass Box Great King Street Glasgow Blend (43.0%): After almost six years and dozens of empty bottles I think it's time to revisit one of my all time favorite blended whiskies if not the one. Glasgow Blend was released as a permanent addition to Great King Street line-up in 2014 inspired by Aeneas MacDonald's book "Whisky" published in 1930 where MacDonald talks about how Glaswegians prefer fuller bodied and more flavor-packed whiskies if compared to other whisky drinkers in the world... An inspiration which brought together a pioneer whisky maker currently celebrating his company 's 20th anniversary and a city I am in love with in the very same bottle... The batch I am about to pour carries the number #211 and it is bottled in June 2019... Even though I am aware that every batch might be blended from a slightly different recipe and that there is no way for Compass Box to keep up the downloadable fact sheet on the website up to date but here are some very gee...

distilling Brooklyn...

People didn't even know where Gowanus was, how it's name was spelled or who was living there till near past. The neighborhood is getting more and more popular nowadays. Actually it is the same exact story we witnessed in Williamsburg, Dumbo and Greenpoint in the last decade. After being home to independent metal shops and local shipping industry for more than a century all the small manufacturers in the area are shutting down their shutters after the inevitable defeat in their long time battle against big companies and moving out of the city leaving all their spaces, lofts and shops to young artists, craftsmen, designers and entrepreneurs moving to the area. You don't have to be psychic to see the future. After the neighborhood becomes attractive and cool enough the real estate investors will storm in, purchase whatever they can find, kick out the low income young crowd by tripling their rents, build fancy high rises and renovate ultra expensive loft buildings for hip...

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