Jolly Toper tasting Edinburgh 23/2/12

[jmrl]

Pretty pleased with this lot, £21/18* phone 0131 556 5864 for tickets, Mon. to Sat. 10.30 to 5.30, the tasting will be at The Tolbooth Tavern, Canongate, Royal Mile:-

Lagavulin Jazz festival bottling, cask strength, single cask 'magnificent' according to Dave Broom

Springbank Rundlets & Kilderkins - the Campbeltown masterpiece after 10 years in unusually small (68 litre) casks 49.4%

Glenfarclas 175th anniversary 43% - a particularly fine example of arguably 'Speyside's finest' - casks spanning 5 decades were married for this commemorative bottling

House of Stuart 12yo 43% blend from the 1970/80s - some of these old blends are a revelation- it's great to see peoples' expressions when they find out how they're not drinking an aged and expensive malt

Glen Deveron 15yo 40% a somewhat surprisingly good example from the distillers of a low profile coastal North-East malt

finally a mystery dram kindly donated by one of the regulars

[jmrl]

Actually there is another tasting soon, Saturday 25th Feb. at 2pm in The Kilderkin, Royal Mile. It is for French and Scottish rugby fans and is an introduction style format. Full details at:-

www.jollytopertastings.co.uk