BattleScotch! Bushmills White Label Blend v Bushmills 10y Single Malt with Dan, Goran, Ryan & Chris

Here we go again! BattlesScotch gonna leave you BattleScortched (patent pending) with all the hot Bushmills on Bushmills action up in here!

Something different this time: introducing the Overall Impression category, basically a fourth vote either way for the complete experience of the whisky, as a few times the scores didn’t truly reflect the decisions we felt we were coming to in conversation. And since Chris is a newbie to the… uh… art? of drinking & thinking.. about it. Sommelierizing, I guess.  I’m sure it means fancy nose dude in french, but it’s pretty funny how phonetically close “sommelier” is to “smeller”.

“and what do you do?”
“i’m a wine smeller.”
“oh. that should have a better name. something french sounding”

Anyway, we figured since a BattleScotch! didn’t involve knowing flavour words or thinking about the experience of tasting, just being able to prefer one thing to another, it was a good introduction to Sommelierizing.

Head to head, White Label v 10y Single Malt:

smell
Dan – White Label
Simon – 10y
Goran – White Label
Ryan – 10y
Chris – White Label

neat
Dan – 10y
Simon – 10y
Goran – 10y
Ryan – 10y
Chris – 10y

splash
Dan – 10y
Simon – White Label
Goran – White Label
Ryan – n/a
Chris – White Label

overall impression
Dan – 10y
Simon – 10y
Goran – White Label
Ryan – 10y
Chris – White Label

Bushmills White Label v Bushmills 10y Single Malt – 10y takes it but it all depends how you prefer to drink it.