Happy Holidays All! These Drinks by the Dram advent calendar reviews will be short, sweet, and hopefully daily throughout December. More realistically though, life, work, and late-night meetings will either cause these posts to double up occasionally or extend past the 24th. But I love the title “24 Drams of Christmas” so we are keeping it! If you are interested in learning more about bourbon and whiskey advent calendars, please visit my blog post HERE.

With that said, let’s get our taste on!

Mortlach 20 Year Old

• Nose: Fresh Bright Fruits; Maybe Apricots, Pears, and Melon. A Very Faint Orange Peel, and Milk Chocolate or Cacao As Well
• Palate: Very Minimal Flavors. Perhaps Notes of Vanilla, Apricot, Pear, and Dry Oak
• Finish: Short to Medium and Funky? An Unknown Funk with Very Light Notes of Oak and Leather
• My Rating: Donate It/Mix It!

This is not my favorite whiskey so far on this advent calendar journey and I feel like we might be spiraling downhill! Definitely not a mixer and not a whiskey I would personally recommend The nose is beautiful, but the palate and finish are not for me; perhaps these flavors might meet your palate so please do not let my experience stop you from exploring.

Please remember, drinking bourbon is a personal adventure, so do not be afraid to drink it neat, with ice, or add some water. It’s your bourbon, you bought it, and you should enjoy it how you want to enjoy it!

Cheers! Prost! Sláinte!

Bourbon Bossman

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For those interested, this advent calendar comes from Drinks by the Dram. For those in the United States wanting to purchase an advent calendars from this company, I found the best international shipping costs to be from The Spirit Co. Directly from The Spirit Co. website: “As its name suggests, this Advent Calendar is filled to the brim with premium whiskies. That’s right, behind these doors there’s 24 rather exceptional expressions to be sipped and savoured [sic] over the festive period, from complex Scotch to sublime Irish whiskey. You could share, or you could keep these little luxuries a secret and enjoy a very delicious Advent indeed.“