We're holding a little gathering today, and the theme is March Hare's Twisted Tea Party. The food is themed after an English High Tea - finger sandwiches, Welsh rarebit, steak and ale pie, scones... Jess always does it up for these.

Since there isn't a lot of tea-related alcohol we expanded the scope to tea and coffee. Jess suggested including the Glenmorangie Signet for the coffee notes, especially the Ristretto.

Plenty of actual tea and coffee, of course.

It isn't always whisky, sometimes it's rum instead.

These are two Bedford Park bottlings of Hampden Estate Rum - a 10 year from 2014 and a 23 year from 2000.

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These are a mixed bag.

The Highland Park Whisky was included with admission to the tasting that kicked off this year's Go Whiskey Week at Julio's Liquors

The Amrut Malt Gurus is one of the Greedy Angels. I already have the 10 Year, but I had not previously seen this Peated Sherry Finish, so that will be interesting to compare.

And the Single Cask Nation Teaninich I grabbed after a recent gathering where we tried some Teaninich and really enjoyed it. Plus I get to support SCN and my friend Joshua Hatton.

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A lot of people sleep on Single Grain Scotch, which is a real shame, IMHO. I got into grain via Compass Box Hedonism, which is a blended grain, but that opened me up to trying others. Many years ago I was in the right place at the right time, when Julio's Liquors happened to get a couple of bottles of a Clan Denny 50 year old North British Single Grain.

The price was shockingly low, half what 25 year old single malts were going for, so I snapped one up on the spot. It was fantastic, and when I later got into auctions I started hunting other Clan Denny bottles, and have since branches out into other independent bottlers.

I'm still picking up Clan Denny though, and this time I added a 30 year Garnheath 1975, a 40 year Girvan 1965, a 35 year Cambus 1975, and a 44 year Invergordon 1966.

I also picked up a few Cadenhead's bottlings - a 31 year Cameronbridge, a 34 year Girvan, a 40 year North British, a 26 year North British, and a 40 year Carsebridge.

As odds and ends I picked up a bottle of Cameron Brig (which is Cameronbridge) - I've been warned this might not be so good, a Signatory 14 year North British 2009, a Signatory 29 year North British 1991, a Muirhall Bond 15 year North British, and a Murray McDavid 16 year Invergordon.

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I'm not really a 'peat head', but I do enjoy peat at times. And my preference tends to be the 'sweet peat' of Ardbeg.

I picked up the 23 year old Vintage Y2K 'blue' edition, the 25 year old, and the 19 year Traigh Bhan 04 (still looking for 07) - and the new Cask Strength 10, which came from Julio's Liquors

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