The whisky advent calendar was quite an awesome experience – I fully enjoyed tasting so many different, new-to-me and unique whiskies from all over the world. I loved the anticipation and surprise of what was behind each door, I loved the unique artwork on the tiny sample bottles from That Boutique-y Whisky Company, and the whole experience was a real pleasure.

However, it was daunting! After a week, I found I wasn’t able to keep up with the daily dram, and then started ‘batching’ them. Then I fell behind and ran into the holidays, illness, and just now finally finished up the drams. I don’t think I would try to do an “advent calendar” again, but I simply loved having the 24 single-serving drams of whiskies that I would otherwise likely never come across. I’ll pick another one of these up some time, but only to have the wide variety of whiskies to sample and make proper tasting notes on.

There were some definite gems in there, and only one dram that I actually did not like at all, and that may have just been a bad bottle.