My whisky friend Wim sent me a package of seven unlabeled whisky samples . He loves sherry bombs and the idea came up because we disagreed on some of the recent Glenrothes 1997 bottlings . I knew he would slip in different profiles to see whether a blind assessment would match my earlier reviews.
I don’t usually do blind tastings. I know other reviewers prefer not to be bothered with names and dates, but I simply find it too hard to organize as I would need to rely on someone to re-label my samples, keep track of them, etc. You...
