Once-in-a-Lifetime Whisky Tasting

And other news!

After a 39 month hiatus (thanks, Peter, for doing the math not his one), Jamie Johnson and I are back with The Whisky Topic podcast. We discuss what we got right or wrong over the years, but mostly, it’s amazing to see how much has changed in the whisky world since we first started. We were naive, drinking our Taylor Barrel Proof and Blanton’s and occasionally funding some Pappy.

Flavour profile wise, there was certainly a rush to put-out whisky in the 2010s and some of it even started overlapping in flavour profile. These days, though, we have lots of different flavours out there. I keep saying, we’re living our best whisky lives, and that’s more true today than before. Can I just order a flight of Pappy for $20 in Louisville? Yeah, no, that’s never going to happen again. Can I have other whiskies that challenge the palate? Yes, certainly!

I’m in Chicago this week for the Chicago Indie Spirit Festival, and just yesterday I managed to find myself some Taylor Barrel Proof. $40. I’ll take it! (Thanks Milk Room Chicago!)

Once-in-a-Lifetime Whisky Tasting

Allow me a moment of dramatics, because if you’re in Toronto on October 27th, I’ll be hosting a pretty cool whisky tasting at City Cottage Market. Tickets are $150, it’s a liquid dinner with a full roster of the most defining Canadian whisky of the last decade (and something from the 1950s).

It’ll be a small crowd, 20sh people, and we’ll be pouring all the whiskies that have redefined what the category. With maybe one exception, nothing I pour is purchasable at the LCBO any longer. It’s sold out, after-market pricing is crazy, etc..etc.. We know how it goes with rare whiskies.

Get tickets, sit yourself down on October 27th, and hear some cool stories behind these whiskies. We even have Shelter Point sending us a speciality single malt barrel select, which is damn cool!

There’s definitely an, “and there’s more…” to this tasting. Hope to see you there.