Annual Scotch Tasting!

Last night was the Georgetown Alumni club's annual scotch tasting.  Being a fan of scotch, I had no choice but to go; and as usual, I had a fantastic time.

This year the event was held at a small capital hill cocktail bar--Wisdom.  I though the bar had an interesting vibe and an eclectic cocktail menu.  It was very heavy on gin and absinthe based drinks. My only real complaint about the bar was it's location. It was out in the boondocks.  Well not really, it was on the eastern side of Capital Hill which to me is the boondocks.  I never go out there.

Anyways,  I attended the event with a friend of mine from grad school.  We had initially planned to meet for dinner before the event.  However, horrible DC traffic derailed that plan. So by the time we finally managed to meet up it was 7:30pm.  Since the event was scheduled to start at 8pm and head straight to the bar.

Once we arrived at the bar we realized that we probably shouldn't drink a ton of hard liquor without having some food in our stomachs. So we ordered some hummos. The dish we got was nothing to write home about. So I won't bore you with the details.

The bartenders at Wisdom created three scotch based cocktails to accompany the tasting. I tried one that was mixture of port, vermouth, and scotch.  My friend tried another that was a mixture of absinthe, pineapple, and scotch.  Both were excellent.  Apparently, scotch is a good base for a complex cocktail.

The format of the event was bit chaotic. I guess the initial plan had been for Glenfiddich to send out a number of folks to the bar who would walk everyone through four different scotches the 12,15,18 and 21 year old.  Unfortunately, only one person was sent out. They decided to do cycle people through the tasting in batches of three.  Naturally, this was a mess. But by that point in the evening we didn't mind the inefficencies of the process.