THE PERFECT WHISKY MATCH – THE DAVIN PROJECT INVITATION 

Hi and thank you for participating in this next grand adventure!  One of the things I love to do is promote good whisky and for those of you who don’t know me that well I also love to promote whiskies from Canada.  Why?  Well because I have been drinking it most of my adult life, I’m a proud Canadian and I truly feel there are several great Canadian Whiskies on the market that most of the world will never get to try.

Davin de Kergommeaux is a certified Malt Maniac, a writer for several large whisky magazines and as of last year published what I consider the “epitome” of what Canadian Whisky history is.  The book not only debunks many myths and common mistakes but truly enlightens the reader with why Canadian whisky is different and worth drinking. It is not surprising to me that his book has won Bronze for best Spirits Book of 2012 and is shortlisted again for a prestigious American award.  The idea to do a whisky book review/twitter tasting came to Davin and me in February and we quickly started working on accomplishing that goal.  To our surprise and delight, 32 people replied to the invite & I felt bad I had to turn away more than half.  The great part of this particular adventure is that this (we believe) has never been done before.  So thank you, again for taking the plunge and joining us!

For the month of April, please read the first 9 chapters.  Canadian whisky has a very distinct style, not only in the way we make it, but the way it smells and tastes.  You will find so much information in these chapters that will really help you once we start the tastings!  And as of this date, feel free to tweet about the upcoming event, take/post pictures (as some of you have and they’ve been great!)  Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, wherever you want!  All the hype we can create, the better.   The schedule will be as follows on Twitter (HASHTAG – #DavinTT):

Thursday May 2^nd at 5:00pm EST (contact me if you need to know what time this will be in your region) we will discuss chapter 10 – 13.  Feel free to ask Davin any questions, promote discussion amongst the participants, etc.   We will take 30 minutes (no more) to do that.  At 5:30pm, we will open mystery bottle “week 1”, nose/taste, discuss, share our thoughts.  At the end of the hour, we will reveal which of the four distilleries the sample came from and what the whisky was.

Thursday May 9^th at 5:00pm EST, we will discuss chapter 14 – 17.  Follow same format:  Q&A, discussion, etc.. until 5:30, then bottle “week 2”.  At the end of the hour, we will reveal etc.

Thursday May 16^th at 5:00pm EST, chapter 18 – 21.  Same format, and end with whisky “week 3”

Thursday May 23^rd at 5:00pm EST, chapter 22 – 25.  Same format, end with the last mystery sample.  And of course take a few minutes to thank Davin, etc…

For those of you who are bloggers, we encourage you to blog about the book, the experience, the whiskies and/or Davin.  If that’s at all possible before the end of May or first week of June, that would be awesome!   My blog will be up by May 31^st so if anyone has theirs done by then, I’d be happy to add it to mine, etc..   Just let me know.  Let the fun begin!   If you have any questions, feel free to get a hold of me.

CHEERS!

Johanne (@whiskylassie)