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December 22, 2007
Johnnie Walker Bespoke Blend Experience
Lucia van der Post noted it in a December 7, 2007 Financial Times "How To Spend It" magazine supplement, writing, "For anybody looking for a present for somebody who loves whisky and who has £3,000 to spend, Johnnie Walker has come up with a splendid notion, The Bespoke Blend Experience — a tutored tasting, leading to a bottle of bespoke personally blended whisky, an experience that to the company's knowledge has never been offered outside a distillery before (only 10 available, exclusively through Selfridges). The blender will come to your home, where you can ask up to three friends. He brings with him some of the rarest single malts in the world, including malts from distilleries such as Cambus and Rosebank that are now closed, and after much sniffing and discussions as to whether one can detect the caramel, the fruitiness, the vanilla, whether it is floral or woody, one proceeds by a process of selection and elimination to a combination of the whiskies you like best."
When I get big — real big — I'm gonna order up The Bespoke Blend Experience for clifyt.
Selfridges telephone number (London, England): 020-7318 3939.
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I'd never had a scotch until this summer. A friend had brought back a 14 year old scotch from her trip to Scotland and had visited the distillery. Before I was allowed to drink it, she had to tell the story of the land and the peat used and everything else.
I know grapes tell a story, a friend at his wine store revels in telling about how this grape was grown here, or that one is grown and processed at a farm in upstate whatever where you can taste the land, but it has never been that clear. With the Scotch, I was transported instantly...I could see the lands and breath it in. I wanted to be there right then.
To be honest, the taste was alright. I'm not so sure a blend would do it for me. It was the actual feel of the land that was exciting, not the flavor. Messing around with this would only dilute the experience.
Still, I'd cherish the bottle of the bespoke stuff and throw it into the basement with the stuff that will probably never get drank unless I needed to pull something out and impress someone. What am I saying...I haven't had a bottle last more than a month in the vault...
Posted by: clifyt | Dec 23, 2007 4:28:47 PM
