Our Dinner and Whisky Tasting at Chester Golf Club (Curzon Park) 23 June 2025

Well we had a great time a super meal followed by David Murdoch talking on Whisky – Wit and Wisdom. David surpassed himself with a fabulous talk.

Some of the assembled company

David Murdoch waxing lyrical in between Drams

​We now know:

• About the link between parrots and whisky.

• Why twelve immaculately dressed men asked for Buchanans.

• The importance of Tommy Lipton’s tea for Tommy Dewar.

• And the supposed whisky called King Victoria’s Sporran.

After the meal there were five different malts to enjoy:

• OLD PULTENEY 12 YEAR OLD released in mid-2018 was entirely aged in bourbon casks, resulting in a heavy influence of bourbon sweetness .

• DEANSTON VIRGIN OAK made with young whisky finished in brand new oak casks from Kentucky.

• GLENFIDDICH FIRE & CANE  some of the distillery's peated single malt a three-month finishing period in rum casks - but not just any old rum casks. He's selected rum casks from a variety of South American countries to finish this whisky, which ought to play nicely with the burly peat notes at its core.

• THE SEXTON SINGLE MALT The creation of master blender Alex Thomas, The Sexton Single Malt Irish whiskey is made from 100% Irish malted barley, triple distilled in copper pot stills then aged Spanish Oloroso sherry casks.

• TULIBARDINE SOVEREIGN  a delicious creamy single malt which was aged in first-fill bourbon barrels before bottling.