10.6.10 Anonymous Islay/peaty malts 43% + Port Ellen £18/15*

The Ileach 12yo single malt

The Pibroch 12yo single malt

Smokehead single malt

Six Isles (Islay, Jura, Skye, Mull, Orkney and Arran)

The Peat Chimney Wemyss Vintage Malts blended malt

Special guest Port Ellen Gordon & MacPhail September 1982 – September 2009 refill sherry casks 43%

16.6.10 Wednesday £20/17* Port Charlotte

The peaty expression from Bruichladdich distillery which has been annually released for the last four years has proven popular with fans of the Islay style, for example it has more than once been awarded best dram at Royal Mile Whiskies’ ‘Whisky on the Fringe’. At this tasting there is the opportunity to try back-to-back all official examples of the malt as well as two independant examples. The tasting will be held at The Tolbooth Tavern, 167 Canongate, Royal Mile, Edinburgh at 7.30pm on Wednesdaqy 16th June at 7.30pm tickets are £18 which, if you do the maths is less than the cost of all these drams at the current bottle price.

PC5 6038 bottles 2001 – 2006 5yo 63.5% mix of bourbon and sherry casks
PC6 18000 bottles 2001 – 2007 6yo 61.6% “Madeira cask influence”
PC7 24000 bottles 2001 – 2008 7yo 61%
PC8 25650 bottles 2001 – 2009 8yo 60.5%
“Baffo” Forever Edition no. 5 256 bottles 12.6.01 – 27.3.09 7yo cask no. 48/2001 46% specially selected by Thomas Kruger.
Port Sgioba (Gaelic for Port Charlotte) 286 bottles 6.12.01 – 2.3.10 8yo cask no. 826/2001 66.0% refill sherry hogshead specially selected by FOAH

24.6.10 Old/Sherried/Peaty/Rare/Unusual t.b.c.

Diageo’s ‘Manager’s Choice’ Inchgower 16yo 61.9% ex-bodega sherry cask 564 bottles about £200 retail

Speyburn 09/77 – 12/07 43% refill sherry butt Gordon & MacPhail

8.7.10 Theme tbc

Bladnoch/Tomintoul/Bruichladdich/Arran/non-Scottish peaty whiskies/bottled at the distillery

22.7.10 Old/Sherried/Peaty/Rare/Unusual t.b.c.

‘Rare Ayrshire’ (Ladyburn) 21.02.1975  – 02.03.09 45.2% Bourbon barrel 166 bottles Signatory

Future tastings:-

Peaty blends 40% : date and price tbc

Islay Mist
Islay Hallmark 8yo
Black Bottle 10yo
Black Grouse
Black Bottle
plus a special guest (Brora or Port Ellen)

All whisky tastings take place on Thursday nights from 7:30pm until approximately 10pm at the Tolbooth Tavern, 167 Canongate, Royal Mile, Edinburgh, Scotchland. Tickets : £17*/20 or when a tasting’s theme requires buying more expensive bottles the increase will be reflected proportionally in the ticket price.

At least 5 drams, cask strength being the preferred option when a choice is available and affordable.

Refunds only possible if tasting not sold out or if ticket can be resold.

The tastings aim to inform and entertain. The relaxed approach is still structured and props are used so the tastes and smells of the various influences on production can be experienced first hand, for example there will be the opportunity to smell and/or taste both malted and un-malted barley, yeast and new make spirit.

The tasting usually ends with a raffle where every entrant wins a miniature’s worth of whisky left over from previous tastings, entry to the raffle is an additional £2 and any further donations being collected for World Vision’s ‘Sponsor a Child’ scheme (we’ve collected more than £1500 to date).

All tastings include oatcakes, shortbread and chocolates.

The Tollbooth offers meals up to the time of tasting.

ENTRY BY PREPAID TICKET ONLY – prices from £17*
*first timers & members discount, 13 month membership = £10
2nd year’s membership £5 then all subsequent years free.

Want to taste the whiskies but can’t attend? We can bottle them for you to take away. Empty minis always appreciated.

www.jollytopertastings.co.uk