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REDEMPTION and a RATING by Bill Webster
In: General
23 Aug 2010In a previous article written on 06 June 2009, I claimed disappointment in a Glenfarclas 17 yr old OB that seemed to me to not hold up to aging very well. As I remember, the whisky tasted woody, distracting from the normally high regard in which I hold the Glenfarclas distillery (my favorite speysider). I [...]
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One of the Old SNOTS (thanks, Gary) recently discovered that there’s another single malt whisky aficionado group on the Missouri side of the Mississippi River. The call themselves The BUMS (Bureau of Malt Sippers) and their website is at http://www.scotch-tasting-bums.com/Welcome.html. Take the time to check out their website and drop them a line with your [...]
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Old SNOTS Offsite Minutes
15 Jun 2010[The following is an account of an Old SNOTS offsite gathering. Though the tone of the minutes may seem negative, in fact we had a great time. It goes to show that wherever and whenever the Old SNOTS gather it'll be a night worth noting.]
Minutes of the Offsite
of the
Old Scotch Nosing or Tasting Society
(Old SNOTS)
June [...]
On A Mission To Loch Fyne Whiskies
20 Mar 2010On the shores of Loch Fyne on the west coast of Scotland lies a small little village called Inveraray. The website “Undiscovered Scotland” describes it as “built on the site of an earlier fishing village in the mid 1700s by the 3rd Duke of Argyll, Chief of the powerful Clan Campbell. He demolished the original [...]
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Visit to Talisker
20 Mar 2010Many of you know that I recently visited Scotland and among the goals was visiting three distilleries–Edradour, Ben Nevis, and Talisker–the distillery that produced the recently determined Old SNOTS favorite whisky. I also intended to visit Loch Fyne Whiskies to present them with a signed photograph of the Old SNOTS at a recent gathering and Old [...]
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My Ah Ha Moment by Bill Webster
In: General
20 Mar 2010 I have been volunteering as a tax preparer here in Korea, thus thinking often and at length on why I like Scotch. The quick and the short of it is … I don’t know why, only that I do. The rest of these paragraphs is just me prattling on for a bit.
I don’t [...]
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An Old SNOTS Cask?
In: General
1 Mar 2010Here’s an intriguing idea for the Old SNOTS, or anyone else for that matter. Duncan Taylor, an independent bottler in Scotland, is offering the opportunity to purchase your own quarter cask or octave cask. More details are HERE.
A quarter cask is 150 bottles and an octave cask is 70 bottles. There’s no indication of the [...]
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The Finals
In: General
21 Feb 2010It’s now official. Over the last several months, the Old SNOTS had been sampling whiskies that had been favorites at previous gathering dating back to 2003. The eventual goal was to winnow the best of the winners from the others. Over the last several months, we cussed and cursed, gushed and raved, turned our thumbs [...]
The Finals’ Lineup
In: General
17 Feb 2010 The lineup to determine which single malt whisky is the best from all those the Old SNOTS sampled between 2003 and 2009 is set. Care to place a wager on which will win?
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New Photos
In: General
17 Feb 2010There are new photos of the January Old SNOTS gathering and the Burns Night at the Scottish Arms restaurant. Just click on the Photos tab above. I hope you enjoy.
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SNOTS = Scotch Nosing Or Tasting SocietyA group of men and women from all walks of life and all parts of the globe who, when the situation permits, warrants or demands, succumb to the reverence of Scotland’s most distinctive product—uisghe beatha, water of life, single malt whisky—and firmly of the conviction that “Whisky may not cure the common cold, but it fails more agreeably than most other things.”
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