Jul. 14: Drammers Dallas...
Hello Dallas Drammers!
Our next in person tasting in Dallas will be Friday, July 14th at 7pm. A big thank you to Kyle Jordan for hosting us! We’ve got a great lineup of bottles we’ll be drinking, including our new Drammers club single barrel pick selected by our Dallas members! Details on that below. We’ll also order in light food (likely pizza) which is included. Please let us know if you have any questions!
What we’ll be drinking at the event…
Loch Lomond's Glengarry 12yo. This Drammers single barrel pick just arrived, a 12yo single malt Scotch from the Highlands distillery Loch Lomond. Distilled in 2010, bottled in 2023, unpeated, matured in a 1st fill Bordeaux red wine barrel -- the barrel yielded 281 bottles. 55.0% abv. Of course non-chill filtered and no color added. Cask #21/546-6. Exclusively available to Drammers members.
Kaiyo Japanese Whisky, Mizunara Cask Matured (2 different Single Casks). If this was a Hollywood log line, you might call this Yamazaki meets Jefferson's Ocean, with a touch of juniper! These two single barrels could not be more different -- one tastes like sugar cookies, the other I would have guessed was an aged gin if I'd tasted it blind. They are really distilled in Japan btw -- they only don't say 'Japanese Whisky" on the label because they are partially aged at sea, Jefferson's style (so, if you take the Scottish approach that it has to be fully aged on land, then were Japan to have enforcable laws identical to the Scotch industry, you wouldn't be able to call it "Japanese Whisky". We'll get into all that at the tasting -- for now suffice it to say that they're damn tasty. They’re both unchillfiltered and bottled at cask strength of 56% abv.
Westland Mezcal Finish. We'll keep the agave party going with this fun new single barrel from our friends at Westland in Seattle. It's their trademark single malt finished in a mezcal cask, selected by our friends at Jack Rose Saloon, and which they've named "Fruit of the Earth", cask #2543. Aged for 7 years. 58.1% abv.
Barleycorn Magic from Atelier Vie. Last weekend we also picked up this gem, the newest release from our friend Jedd at Atelier Vie, a craft distillery located right in New Orleans. This one is fascinating -- he started with beer from a nearby brewery (Zony Mash), and here we're talking about hopped beer -- very hard to make a balanced whiskey that is hopped, but Jedd has pulled it off. Needs to be tasted to be believed. 42% abv.
Barrell Whiskey Private Release - Amaro Cask Finish. You haven't had anything like this before! Our friends at Barrell Craft Spirits had an opportunity to buy a tanker of American whiskey -- some company had intended to make a flavored whiskey out of it, but ran out of money. They knew it was probably bourbon, and it certainly tasted good, but they couldn't prove it met all the technical specs to call it bourbon, so they called "Kentucky Whiskey", and then set about filling it into a wide array of fun finishing casks, including this one in a St. Agrestis Amaro cask, bottled at 56.9% abv. It's wildly original, and our members picked this out of 7 different samples for our barrel pick event, so this is exclusive to Drammers.
Rezpiral - Simeon Ramirez Mezcal Ensamble of Mexicano Agaves. We had the pleasure of selecting a batch a few years ago that Simeon did with his father Apolonio, that time from a tobasiche agave, which was dominated by vegetal and mineral notes. That pick was a big hit, so we selected a new batch that just arrived -- a mix of 4 varietals of the Mexicano agave, it has a dominant lemon-lime custardy-sorbet flavor, backfilled with vanilla. Yum. Details here, and available exclusively to members of Drammers for $120/bottle, 50.8% abv.
5 Sentidos - Tobala by Tio Pedro. The Maestro Mezcalero behind this mezcal, Tio Pedro, has worked for many top mezcal producers over the years and recently set out on his own, where among other things he produced this small 92 liter batch. This is only just arrived and features wild tobalas he collected and distilled in Oaxaca in June of 2022. He then rested is in glass until December 2022 adjusting with heads and tails to reach the desired flavor and bottled at 47% abv. This batch was selected by our members on our annual trip to Oaxaca for Day of the Dead last year and is available exclusively to members of the club.