I’t time to wave the summer goodbye. Like Dion mentioned earlier it wasn’t a spectacular one, weather wise. But frankly, being a spring and autumn kind of person, I kinda liked it this way.

Mostly because firing up the bbq and tasting whisky in the garden, to me, is far more pleasant at 25°C and below than anything above. As long as it doesn’t rain.

But when it does get hot outside, there are a couple of drams which seem to fit. One of them is this Tomintoul Seiridh. A non-age-statement whisky that has matured on bourbon casks, before being finished in fresh oloroso casks. It’s bottled at 40% ABV and that’s something we (gladly) see less often, but there’s a market for that. Tomintoul even wears it as their motto: the gentle dram. And that’s how we went into this. Without too much expectations.

As it happens, I had a small holiday planned and Dion came over for the weekend. No holiday without whisky, so this Tomintoul went along. We picked one of the last beautiful-ish summer days of the year and gave it a whirl:

This is not a dram to savour for a whole night, but rather an appetizer or something we’d like as a refreshing dram on a warm summer day. Or, when you like to introduce somebody to whisky, this wouldn’t burn their tongue off immediately.