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Mike - WhiskyWings
@whiskywings.bsky.social
Whisky reviews, Tastings and Chatting rubbish.
Podcast Host on @HonestToAMalt
One Welshman's humble opinion on all things Whisky!

Some links are affiliated.
He's played a blinder.
@thewhiskywire.bsky.social sent some cracking drams my way from @bimberdistillery.bsky.social and @dunphaildistillery.bsky.social

Can't wait to get into these next week. 🥃
#WeAreBimber
May 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
May 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Dram 5
Nose:
Cordite smoke, strawberry and cream sweets, straw,

Palate:
Ardbeg comes to mind
Super high char, orange sherbet, lime and chocolate sweets, BBQ sauce, plum sauce, smoked beef.

Solid 4
#BlindDrams
May 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Dram 4
Nose:
Smokey bacon, toffee popcorn, farmyard funk,

Palate:
Smoked pineapple, pine smoke, lemon barely, chilli spice.

Score 2
#BlindDrams
May 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Dram 3
Nose:
Peanut, walnut, caramel, lemon, prune

Palate:
Custard, caramel, ginger, oloroso, toffee. Milk chocolate.

Score 3
#BlindDrams
May 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Dram 2
Nose:
Sweet grain, lemon barley, white wine, maybe even a dessert wine.
Strawberry fruitella yes I've been influenced

Palate:
Coconut, lemon, marshmallow, grain, grass, astringent and juicy.

Score 3
#BlindDrams
May 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Dram 1
Nose:
Ginger ale, bourbon, lemon bon bon, apple, cinnamon sugar

Palate:
Sour, acidic, lots of oak spice and not much else

Went down the sink

Score 0
#BlindDrams
May 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
January 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Episode 31 of the Honest to a Malt podcast is live

Merch Ado About Nothing

We get stuck into brand merchandise and look at what items we love, things we don't need or want and see what daft or possibly brilliant ideas we can muster up ourselves.

open.spotify.com/episode/4fU8...

🎧🎙️🥃
November 1, 2023 at 10:31 PM
Episode 30 - The Screams of Isla(y) is now live.
The boys are reunited after a brief hiatus and discuss new arrivals, Halloween, ghosts and horror movies... As well as some riveting #Whisky chat of course!
🥃🎧🎙️
#whiskey #whiskypodcast #whiskeypodcast
open.spotify.com/episode/18dj...
October 27, 2023 at 8:09 AM
Everyone on the dancefloor for the last dance of this #TweetTasting
It's the @TurntableSpirit
Smokin’ Riff
Nose:
Lovely smoke, bacon, lime, slight cordite note, the inside of a creme egg. Lemon meringue pie.
Nom nom
September 28, 2023 at 7:17 AM
Dram 2 of the @TheWhiskyWire @TurntableSpirit #TweetTasing
We are walking with purpose in Hoxton Street now!
Bittersweet Symphony.
Nose:
Cranberry, cigar tobacco, leather.
Cherry and strawberry laces!
#TurntableSpirits
September 28, 2023 at 7:16 AM
Great TweetTasting last night with Turntable spirits and Whisky Wire.
Paradise Funk.
Nose:
Apple, raspberry, vanilla, a sweet floral note, maybe a touch of white wine!
Lively and fresh.
September 28, 2023 at 7:15 AM
Myself and @whiskytip have been recreating that standing outside at the pub feeling.
I still can't sit down properly but we managed to get another @HonestToAMalt episode in for your listening pleasure.
#DiceDiceMaybe
#whisky #whiskey
September 18, 2023 at 9:32 PM
We put these through our own #GrandPrix on Episode 20 of the @HonestToAMalt #whiskypodcast
Celebrity Top Trumps with Sassenach v Coachbuilt, Sam Heughan v Jenson Button.Two whiskies at very different price points battle it out blind!
#whiskey
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0A3a40l539QY6Fu3NnPP3Q
August 8, 2023 at 8:41 AM
Tonight I cracked open the Sassanach so it can get some air before a blind show down with Coachbuilt.
Sam Heughan v Jenson Button coming up soon on the Honest to a Malt Podcast 🥃🎧🥊
August 4, 2023 at 11:20 PM
Episode 19 of the Honest to a Malt Whisky podcast is live
https://open.spotify.com/episode/25wm42Pw62rrDwqcCnv4r7
This week we take a trip to Pudding Island to discuss whisky, music, desserts and celebs!
🥃🎧🏝️
August 2, 2023 at 2:09 PM
Editing time!
Whisky podcast editing with a dram of A.D. Rattray House Malt.
This one's an Aultmore 12 year old aged in a bourbon cask.
Delicious 😋
🥃🎧🙌🏻
July 26, 2023 at 8:37 PM
Episode 18 of the Honest to a Malt whisky podcast has been recorded. I'll edit it tonight and get it released tomorrow.
Links to follow 🙌🏻
🎧🥃
July 26, 2023 at 9:09 AM
A belated whisky tasting from
@TheWhiskyWire and @whitepeakwhisky
One dram was lost by royal mail so I'm starting with...
Virgin Oak Finish, 51.7%
Nose:
Lemon, hint of peanut, vanilla, foam banana, geranium.
Palate:
Hazelnut, lemon, grass note, raisin, milk chocolate
#WireWorksWhisky
July 22, 2023 at 6:42 AM
The Whisky Room has been fully moved to its new location, I just need a posh office chair for recording the podcast.
July 21, 2023 at 12:08 PM
Well folks I've landed! Thanks to @knowgood43r.bsky.social for the link up!
Can't wait to start putting some #whisky content up on here to go alongside The bird which must not be named and Instagram!
I'll shove up my last whisky related image from the #BlindDrams session I hosted last Saturday!
#🥃
July 20, 2023 at 10:30 PM