A huge 🙏 to everyone who made our Dream Drams tasting a fun, enjoyable sign-off of our year two.

Our dream for ‘just one more…’ brought 7 drams on a 6 dram ticket with this spectacular lineup:

1. Cooper King First Edition (48.1%, £85) – Sold out in first 10mins of release
2. Springbank 21 (46%, £260) – Always sells out
3. Signatory Dailuaine 1997 (25yr, 48.2%, £189.95) – Rarely available
4. Signatory 17yr Speyside (The Macallan, 56.9%, £185) – Cheaper than a £2.1M auction
5. Deanston 1992 PX (31yr old, 57.6%, £315) – Single cask, hand pour from the Distillery Shop
6. Filey Bay Barrique #663 (62.1%, £125 – sold in £300 ballot of 3x) – Sold out
7. Caskshare 21yr Port Charlotte (60.1%, £500) – Still available!

Lots of appreciation for the first step on their whisky journey by Cooper King Distillery who have an eco/charity supporting/small batch distilling ethos. One to keep watching!

Next, the Springbank 21yr old fulfilled our FOMO dream – huge thanks to Field and Fawcett for allowing us to buy at original retail! – but consensus was that after all the dreaming, we actually loved the 10yr old more 🤷‍♂️

Dailuaine is a rare beast outside its Johnnie Walker home, especially a 25yr old and this Signatory Vintage was well-received. HUGE 🙏 to Master of Malt for adding this to our dreams.

Sticking with Signatory, whilst we contemplated paying £2.1M for the recently auctioned The Macallan, in the end we went for a 17yr old Speyside (M) which *may* have been a similar dream 😉

Your hosts love a Deanston dram and a SUPER 🙏 to Gregor at the Visitor Centre for the 1992 PX from cask 6758. A great dram and a great reason to visit the distillery.

If Yorkshire was getting beaten up by hard-hitting Scots, then the Spirit of Yorkshire came out fighting with the Single Cask ex-PX Barrique #663. It held its own in this dram super league and caused pockets of smugness in attendees who bought the trio this was released in.

We had a commercial break raffling generous giveaways from The Whisky Nest and Field and Fawcett.

Our dram of the night was the Caskshare 21yr old Port Charlotte which proved that if you spend £500 on a bottle of Islay finest ex-Bourbon & ex-Bordeaux red wine, you can convert even the hardest peat hater.

Roll on 2024: we have more excitements to bring! 😁

Jasper + Jim