All of the Jolly Toper’s whisky tastings take place on Thursday nights from 7:30pm until approximately 10pm at the Tolbooth Tavern, 167 Canongate, Royal Mile, Edinburgh, meals available up to the time of the tastings.

Future dates:-

13.5.10 5 Highland Parks £23/20*
Duthies 17yo 46%
Earl Magnus 1st ed. 15yo 52.6%
1973-2009 43% Gordon & MacPhail 1st fill sherry butt
1995 46% 14yo Murray McDavid Bourbon/Chateau Lafite 1900 bottles
06.92-09.08 16yo Alchemist Calvados cask finish 46%

27.5.10 Old/Sherried/Peaty/Rare/Unusual t.b.c.
30.5.10 Sunday 2.30pm £38/35*
Glenfiddich 32yo 46.9%
Banff 29yo 1976 – 06.2006 52.0% Cadenheads Bourbon hogshead 228 bottles
Millburn 31yo 1974 – 05.2006 52.3% Cadenheads Bourbon hogshead 246 b0ttles
Convalmore 30yo 1977 – 09.2007 61.6% Cadenheads butt 240 bottles
Ardbeg 15yo 1994 – 01/10 57.7% Cadenheads Bourbon hogshead 273 bottles

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%

17.6.10 £20/17* Port Charlotte
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.
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.
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 very exciting really. And busy.

Visit the Jolly Toper himself at http://www.jollytopertastings.co.uk/