Leap Year Day 2024

“Leap into March” – A Leap-Year-Day Tasting Dinner

Our whisky menu is quite promising and our soup/salad/entrée/desert at the new GoodFellas Bar & Grill will be delicious. We will begin our whisky flight with the 1990 vintage Glencadam 20-Year from Gordon & Macphail (1895).

Fettercairn offers a unique taste profile that’s just right for our second pour: the 1997 vintage )19-Year) single cask from MMCD (Murray McDavid). Our third and featured whisky is Bladnoch 26-Year, its 2020 limited ‘distillery exclusive’ release. It’s a real cracker that I’m sure you will enjoy.

I have an on-going internal debate which Dalmore core expression is better: Dalmore Cigar Malt or 1263 King Alexander III. For this event, I’ve landed on Dalmore Cigar Malt. It was created decades ago to accompany fine cigars (no smoking at our event). Thankfully, it was bottled at the decent strength of 44% ABV.

Ben Nevis is my nominee as the most underrated great single malt that you will ever have the pleasure of discovering. It offers an array of rich sherry flavors and will pair up well with our previous pour. GlenAllachie Lum Reek is a lightly peaked blended malt (GlenAllachie & BenRiach) that really works whereas Lagavulin, our final dram, affords a power arsenal of maritime flavors.

Do please join us and bring a friend: “Good whisky is made great when shared among friends.”

WHISKY MENU:

1. GLENCADAM Single Malt / 1990 Vintage (20-Year) / 43% ABV / IB: Gordon & MacPhail (MacPhil Collection) / Dist Owner: Angus Dundee Distillers PLC (Hillman) / Highland (Eastern)

2. FETTERCAIRN Single Malt / 1997 Vintage (19-Year) / 46% ABV / NCF / SC# 120001 (296 btls) / IB: Murray McDavid (Bruichladdich/Rémy Cointreau) / Dist Owner: Whyte & Mackay Ltd. (Emperador Distillers Inc.) / Highland (Eastern)

3. BLADNOCH Single Malt / 26-year / ‘2020 Talia Edition’ (Red wine casks of American oak) / CS 44% ABV / NCF / OB / Dist Owner: Bladnoch Distillery Ltd. (David Prior) / Lowland (Wigtown, Dumfries)

4. DALMORE Single Malt / ‘Cigar Malt Reserve’ / NAS / 44% ABV / OB / Dist Owner: Whyte & Mackay Ltd. (Emperador Distillers Inc./Alliance Global Group, Inc.) / Highland (Northern)

5. BEN NEVIS Single Malt / 10-Year / 43% ABV / IB: Battlehill (Duncan Taylor & Co.) / Dist Owner: The Nikka Whisky Distilling Co. Ltd. (Asahi Breweries, Ltd./Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd.) / Highland (Western)

6. LUM REEK Blended Malt Scotch Whisky / ‘Peated’ / 12-Year / 46% ABV / NCF / OB: Harvey MacNair & Co. (GlenAllachie Dist/Billy Walker) / Scotland

7. LAGAVULIN Single Malt / 12-Year / ‘2018 Special Release’ / CS 57.8% ABV / NCF / OB / Dist Owner: Diageo Scotland Ltd. (Diageo plc) / Islay (Kildalton) GLENCADAM Single Malt / 1990 Vintage (20-Year) / 43% ABV / IB: Gordon & MacPhail (MacPhail Collection) / Dist Owner: Angus Dundee Distillers PLC (Hillman) / Highland (Eastern) – D: Oct 1990 – B: Mar 2011