The first thing one notices about whisky is that it asks for patience. Not while drinking it, but long before that. Patience while the barley grows or while the spirit sleeps in oak. Patience while the years pass unseen inside dark warehouses in the Scottish Highlands, where rain taps against stone walls and winters surrender to summers with little fanfare.On June 11, at Olterra, a Greek themed bar and micro brewery in Kolkata, a roomful of people gathered to taste that patience.Hosted by Glenmorangie and Moët Hennessy India, the Cask and Conversation evening with David Blackmore, global brand ambassador for Glenmorangie and Ardbeg, was billed as a whisky tasting. Yet, as glasses were raised and conversations drifted from casks to coastlines, it became apparent that the evening was really about the slow and mysterious work of time.
The Lasanta’s tasting notes are chocolate, hazelnut and marmalade.
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David has spent years travelling the world talking about whisky, and he does so with the ease of a man introducing old friends. Listening to him, one begins to suspect that wood remembers. The evening opened with Glenmorangie 12 Year Old, a whisky that seemed perfectly suited to the warmth of a Kolkata evening. Honey appeared first, followed by vanilla and bright citrus notes that lingered gently.
