Today, no tasting notes for the simple reason that I have not had the time to write them early this morning, and I forgot to take my notes with me…

I decided to write a general update on things happening, whisky-wise at the moment.

Bladnoch Bottle-Share:
The bottles have come in yesterday and are now displayed on my coffee table in the study. I hope to start bottling the samples tomorrow night and will finish that probably later this week. I am also working on the little booklet I usually send with it, and hope to make it as entertaining and informing as possible.

Buffalo Trace Bottle-Share:
Tomorrow I will publish the last tasting note to the Buffalo Trace Bottle-Share, the Thomas H. Handy. That means all notes are online and I will post my personal results, as I have done before, on Friday.

Other Bottle-Shares and Samples:
I have about 70 samples sitting around of which I have not published tasting notes, or which I have not tasted yet. Among them are the ‘Gedeelde Vreugde‘ Bottle-Share samples of The Whisky Exchange’s 10th anniversary bottles and Diego Sandrin’s Laphroaigs which he finished in wine barrels. I will start working on those next week.

Tastings:
Contrary to the last couple of months, I have not many tastings planned in the coming months. My wife is very happy about that, although I already start missing my weekly whisky round-up! I do have a Rum tasting this Sunday in Krommenie and a Mackmyra Twitter Tasting (I refuse to call it a Twasting) on May 2nd. Apart from those, I will lay low on the tasting scene for a while, also to save up some hard needed cash for my trip to Scotland soon.

Festivals:
None planned thusfar. I did decide not to go to Whisky Live NL this year, unless I can get a ticket for free somehow (worked out last year, thanks to The Old Pipe), since I think €45 euros just to enter the festival with very expensive drams on scene is just too expensive. For that money I probably can get samples of most things I like to taste there.

I hope to be able to visit the Pot Still Festival again this year. Its a nice and small festival in Amersfoort, organized by Van Wees, a large liquor shop, bottler and importer of fine spirits. The focus is on all things distilled, so apart from whisky, also cognac, grappa, genever, calvados and so on.