For our August tasting, we will have a wonderful pairing of whiskeys from the SMWS in Scotland and organic chocolates from Manna organic store in Tralee. Join us for a tasting that will be an experience of unique whiskeys, enhanced by varied and wonderful chocolates. Our sense of taste will be taken to new places of discovery understanding the complexities required in maturing great whiskies from different distilleries, into different casks, for different time periods, resulting in wonderful products for us to enjoy.
Dunvilles will be represented as well as Deanston distillery which produces organic whiskey. Let's journey together to far away shores such as Ecuador and Madagascar and explore what whiskey might pair with dark chocolate and raspberry or mint. Chocolates with exceptional organic ingredients have been carefully chosen to enhance and complement the chosen whiskeys of the evening. What might a caramel and sea salt chocolate pair with? What tasting notes might a 60% eight-year-old whiskey from the Highland region hold in store? Come along and find out as our very own Con Collins will present a fabulous tasting of whiskey & chocolate.
Some of us are familiar with the Scotch Malt Whiskey Society or SMWS, formed in Leith, Edinburgh in 1983 by Pip Hills and indeed some of us are also members of that society and have attended a couple of notable previous tastings of their whiskey, not to mention an excellent evening with Charles MacLean here in the town.
Since being formed in 1983, they have believed in doing things differently. As unconventional whisky experts they seek out whisky in its purest form, prize flavour above everything else and give each bottling a curious name. They’re united and constant in their passion – to share the world’s best whiskies, to bring them to life, and to make members proud to belong to the world’s most colourful whisky club.
The exploration of flavour and sharing their discoveries is what they’re all about. Members enjoy exclusive access to whiskies hand-picked by their expert Tasting Panel, from over 140 distilleries in Scotland and beyond, bottled at cask strength and offering a constant variety. How you drink them is entirely up to you.
For further information about the SMWS, just feel free to peruse their own website at https://smws.eu/
Whiskey Tasted
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