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Hello Delaware Drammers!
You’re invited to join us for another tasting of rare whiskey and spirits on Monday, July 15th at 7pm. A big thank you to our chapter head Jared Card for organizing and hosting us at the Newark Masonic Lodge (address: 207 East Delaware Avenue, Newark, DE 19713, in the basement). We’ve got a great lineup of unusual whiskies:
Bunnahabhain 15yo - Margeaux Cask (Murray McDavid Benchmark Bottling)
Tomatin 14yo - Oloroso Finish (Murray McDavid Benchmark Bottling)
Allt-a-Bhaine 14yo Single Malt Scotch - Koval Rye Cask (Murray McDavid Benchmark Bottling)
Croftengea aka Heavily Peated Loch Lomond - Marsala Cask Finish (NAS, Murray McDavid Cask Craft Bottling)
If you’re not familiar with Murray McDavid, they are a respected, longstanding independent bottler of single malt Scotch, and our friend Jared has just started working with them! That’s convenient for us, as we’ve been featuring their whiskies at Drammers Club for years. Great stuff.
Copper & Kings Brandy - Finished in a Tequila Cask. This barrel pick recently arrived from Copper & Kings distillery in Louisville, Kentucky. They specialize in American brandy and here we've got a single barrel of their grape brandy aged in a tequila cask, bottled at cask strength of 62.5% abv. It’ll be fun to compare this to the grape brandy finished bourbon from Starlight! It is available exclusively to members of our club.
Sierra Norte Mexican Whiskey
Green Corn Single Barrel. 52.8% abv
Rainbow Corn Single Barrel. 61.2% abv
Yellow Corn Single Barrel. 48.3% abv
Sierra Norte made huge waves a few years ago when their bourbon-style yellow corn whiskey was named by Whiskey Advocate as one of the Top 20 whiskies in the world across all categories, and their master distiller Douglas French has taken that several steps further. Applying what he learned cultivating seed banks in his decades of building the Scorpion Mezcal brand, when he turned his hand to whiskey, he worked to isolate individual corn varietals, planting and refining them over decades to produce separate whiskies distilled using only white corn, or yellow corn, green corn, black corn, purple corn, and more recently red, green and rainbow corn. They’re all made like a bourbon (but in Mexico, so you can’t call it bourbon, which by definition has to be made in the United States). The mashbill is 85% corn, 15% malted barley, distilled on the same small copper pot stills that he uses to make his Scorpion mezcal. When our club visited Oaxaca last October, we picked 3 special single barrels. The first was a mind-altering variant of their award-winning yellow corn whiskey, with huge green pepper/jalapeno notes, very different from his standard release. Next, he let us buy the very first (and to our knowledge still the only) barrel of rainbow corn whiskey that he has ever released. And most precious, he let us buy one of only two barrels of green corn whiskey that he barreled before abandoning the green corn project (it just wasn’t adapting to the Oaxacan environment, so he had to let it go — making our barrel incredibly rare, one of only 2 barrels he ever produced, and he’s not making any more of it).
That’s our lineup, we hope you can join us! Please let us know if you have any questions. We’ll order in light food (likely pizza, if anyone has any dietary restrictions — vegan cheese, etc.) please let us know in advance if you have a moment. And, as always, we ask that everyone arrange a ride home — obviously we’ll be drinking a lot of high proof stuff.
Cheers!
Charlie, Jared and Drammers Club