Reply to: Any whisky fans?

[norrahe]

Not sure we have a whisky shop, even our Oddbins closed a few years back Although Newcastle's close and must surely have a decent shop.

The main whisky importer for cloggers is five minutes walk from my house (They also do a nice line of wines too!)

[d000hg]

Not sure we have a whisky shop, even our Oddbins closed a few years back Although Newcastle's close and must surely have a decent shop.

[norrahe]

For single cask you pretty much have to taste it first though, right? It would be foolish to splash out on single cask simply on the basis "it's expensive so it must be good" since each cask could be completely different?

Am lucky, local whisky shop always has a few that you can sample before buying. They do lots of tastings with some really good whiskies.

I also got to try a 1976 Benriach, which didn't grab me either.

[d000hg]

For single cask you pretty much have to taste it first though, right? It would be foolish to splash out on single cask simply on the basis "it's expensive so it must be good" since each cask could be completely different?

[norrahe]

Highly recommend this Kavalan - very unexpected, its Taiwanese

Was at a whisky tasting last night and bought these:

Glendronach 20 years old 1990 Cask 3068
Glendronach 15 yrs Revival
Benriach 16 yrs Claret Wood Finish

[darmstadt]

Not a big Whiskey fan but like the occasional one and this thread is giving me ideas to pop over the road from my hotel to here: WhiskyDungeon - Ihr Whisky und Rum Shop - Online und in Münster which is also: Willkommen auf der Startseite and have a tipple (the Thistly Cross cider they have there, fermented in whiskey barrels, is rather nice.) Last time I was there I had a few nice ones from the islands, the only problem is that it takes 2 minutes to walk there but at least 20 to get back...

Just seen, they now have their own one: http://www.whiskydungeon.com/Privata...ter::1199.html

[d000hg]

.05 litres is a double measure, for £6.50. Works out like £90 a bottle. Ouch.

[OwlHoot]

0,05 Liter cost about 10 bucks. Pretty expensiv but it's worth it.

0.05 litres? A fledgling wren couldn't get pissed on that

and Bourbon seems to have rather a rather a synthetic, chemical taste. Ditto schnapps. Never liked either.

[yannek]

Actually I prefer Bourbon, somehow it's smooth. And your wallet won't suffer that much if you would like to drink more than just a glas.

But if you wanna sip and savour I could recommend an excotic one from Bavaria/Southern Germany. The one I like is a Single Malt. Matured in White Oak Barrels. 0,05 Liter cost about 10 bucks. Pretty expensiv but it's worth it.

[Goatfell]

Although it hurts to admit it, this is very good, particularly if you're not keen on the "cratur" from Islay.
Penderyn Distillery | Penderyn Single Malt Welsh Whisky Madeira finished 70cl
All of them are smooth though.

[OwlHoot]

I normally buy pretty low/mid-range stuff, 12yo Glenfiddich or similar in the £25-30 range, as regular drinking whisky. I have £50-55 burning a hole in my pocket to spend on something a bit more fancy.
I could go the boring route of just getting an older version of something I normally get... a Balvenie or Glenfiddich or Jura or Highland Park. Or something less familiar - Longmorn 16 and Glenlivet Nadurra 16 sound quite interesting. Or go left-field and buy Japanese for a change.

As should be clear, I don't like peaty whisky much... any recommendations? This is something to sip and savour, not to drink.

Sainsbury's do a good little set of 3 sampler bottles of Glenfiddich, 10, 15 and 20 years old. Or perhaps the last is 18 years old.

If I'm staying in on a saturday night and watching a fillum or two, I may buy one of those and start with the 20 year old and work forwards in time. After those the taste isn't (let's say) so distinguishable, so I can tuck into half a bottle of Grants.

[SimonMac]

Making it in the Scottish style is still whisky. Whiskey is a different manufacturing process. (Unless you were replying to a post I didn't see about Irish/Bourbon or something)

I know the difference, just saying I prefer Irish to Scotch

[scooterscot]

Pay a surcharge to have it delivered to where it comes from in the first place!

We've been paying a surcharge ever since the act of the union took place.

[d000hg]

Suntory Yamazaki 12 Year Old : Buy Online - The Whisky Exchange

Actually looking at the picture I'm certain that's the one I had, either 10 or 12yo.

Also, I had to laugh at this from that whisky online shop:

Delivery Surcharge
Delivery to The Highlands & Islands of Scotland, Northern Ireland, Isle of Man and Isles of Scilly will incur an additional £5 delivery surcharge.

Pay a surcharge to have it delivered to where it comes from in the first place!

[Troll]

One of my favourites, but that's one I'd drink rather than "let each drop sit on your tongue and evaporate" as Scooter nicely puts it.

Fecking stuff seems to evaporate anyway- had a BBQ on holiday - G&T for the others and BDW pour moi and feck me if half a bottle hadn't gone by the morning!