The Isle of Jura 10 year stuff has recieved some fairly bland reviews. But I don't pay attention to them, I'd much rather go to a shop and do some tastings 
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Single Malt Scotch!
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I'm just kicking back with a Maccallan elegancia 12. Very good stuff.
I'm gonna pick up some Spring Bank tomorrow I think. That's the best, IMO.
I'm gonna pick up some Spring Bank tomorrow I think. That's the best, IMO.
Yeah, while you're at it, why don't you run down to the corner music store and try out some MTD's and Laklands.The Isle of Jura 10 year stuff has recieved some fairly bland reviews. But I don't pay attention to them, I'd much rather go to a shop and do some tastings
Basically... as dubious as reviews can be (agreeing with you), it's all I have to go on for much of the stuff I want to try, since I have to buy to try.
The good news is, I don't have a hyper-educated palette, so as long as it's at least very good quality, I'll enjoy it, but I just like to feel like I really got my money's worth, or even better yet, found (in my case stumbled) on something really special.
The Isle of Jura 10 year stuff has recieved some fairly bland reviews. But I don't pay attention to them, I'd much rather go to a shop and do some tastings
I'd seen that too, but I picked up a bottle a while back anyway. There was nothing about it that was so phenomenal that it became a staple in my liquor cabinet, but was about what one expected in its price range... maybe a little better. It was missing one of those things that usually bothers me when I don't like a scotch... sorry, I'm terrible on describing flavors/aromas and I had it a while ago.
All in all, it was unassuming but not necessarily in the bland way it was described in reviews, I'd say worth a try.
+1 on the Glendronach too. I quite like everything I've tried by them.
I like me some Springbank!
Some bottlings are much better than others, as is to be expected. The best ones are near divine, though.
Well, I don't buy into levels of "education", people just like what they like and the more they try stuff, the more specific they get in what they like. I had this sales woman talking to me about the "west coast character" and "highland traits" and I was like
"whats that mean then?"
I don't buy into the pretention, I just buy what I like, and I'm not so keen on the peaty flavours until I'm drinking it and eating something (like smoked scottish salmon) that needs that extra kind of metallic note. If liking Singleton and Tamdhu means that I have an immature palette then so be it. Maybe I'm just not bored with them yet.
Airport Duty Free shopping areas are great places for taste testing. I fly pretty regularly at the moment and every time I get to Heathrow, its off to World of Whiskey for some taste tests in the hour leading up to boarding.
"whats that mean then?"
I don't buy into the pretention, I just buy what I like, and I'm not so keen on the peaty flavours until I'm drinking it and eating something (like smoked scottish salmon) that needs that extra kind of metallic note. If liking Singleton and Tamdhu means that I have an immature palette then so be it. Maybe I'm just not bored with them yet.
Airport Duty Free shopping areas are great places for taste testing. I fly pretty regularly at the moment and every time I get to Heathrow, its off to World of Whiskey for some taste tests in the hour leading up to boarding.
Exactly, so while I generally somewhat go by numerical ratings, especially if multiple reviewers agree it's very good, but I don't pay too much attention to their haughty and borderline arrogant "analysis" of the flavor's nuances. I pay attention to how they talk about smoke, peat, oak, sherry, and "medicinal", mostly.
Woah! I never knew this! Crap! I've always walked right by those places thinking "yeah, right, duty free, but inflated prices". I didn't know they gave tastings!Airport Duty Free shopping areas are great places for taste testing. I fly pretty regularly at the moment and every time I get to Heathrow, its off to World of Whiskey for some taste tests in the hour leading up to boarding.
Airport Duty Free shopping areas are great places for taste testing. I fly pretty regularly at the moment and every time I get to Heathrow, its off to World of Whiskey for some taste tests in the hour leading up to boarding.
I'll be flying back to Canada via Heathrow in the summer. I'll have to make a pit stop at that store for sure. That's if I haven't drowned my self in Calvados in Normandy for a week.
I had some Macallen 12 over the weekend and it was EXCELLENT!
I don't know if I'd say it was quite as good as the 18, but at the price difference, WELL worth it. The greatest part was, I had it at a little local Irish Pub, and the staff hadn't entered it in the price database, so the young female bartender, who obviously had no clue, was charging me $3.00 per drink.
I don't know if I'd say it was quite as good as the 18, but at the price difference, WELL worth it. The greatest part was, I had it at a little local Irish Pub, and the staff hadn't entered it in the price database, so the young female bartender, who obviously had no clue, was charging me $3.00 per drink.
WOW! Way cool! I had two bottles of Singleton last week. It was nice but left me feeling... ...unsatisfied. There wasn't enough bitter sweet interplay. Maybe I need to go back to peaty flavours.
They're in Terminal 3 - I don't really go to the other terminals much.
Well roll me, stuff me, and call me Haggis! I'm a newbie to the board, so imagine my shock and surprise when I stumbled on this thread---looks like I'm a PeatHead!(love that!) My opinion of you folks has gone up enormously! I'm quite partial to the Islay's...the smokier, peaty-er, skanky-er the better! But,dammit,...there are no bad single malts, right?! ('Course I'd probably drink me own bathwater). Yep, the usual suspects...Lagavulin, Laphroaig, Ardbeg, Bowmore (yeah the "legend" is young, but CHEAP...an everyday bargain for an Islay), Talisker, Oban, Highland Park,.....never mind...Highland, Lowland, Speyside, Campbeltown, the Islands,...heck--Northern Ireland....it's all the "Water of Life", eh?! Had the oportunity to tour the distillery on Cape Breton this past summer...lovely! They make a nice, light, smooth, Highland Malty-ish dram. I signed the guestbook, and in the "impressions/suggestions" section I wrote "MORE PEAT!" Here's to Ye, Laddies!
I thought of this thread the other day . . .
I went out to my local (state-owned
) liquor store just before closing on Saturday, having a ferocious craving for Lagavulin. Naturally, the only single malt they carry (precious few, BTW) that they were out of was Lagavulin.
I slunk home with a bottle of Highland Park. Sheesh. :scowl:
I went out to my local (state-owned
) liquor store just before closing on Saturday, having a ferocious craving for Lagavulin. Naturally, the only single malt they carry (precious few, BTW) that they were out of was Lagavulin.I slunk home with a bottle of Highland Park. Sheesh. :scowl:
I tried an oddball the other day. It's a single malt Whiskey from the USA(Alameda, CA) called St.George. Pretty good, especially if you like the Scottish Highland style malts, clean not peaty & a hair sweet & pretty smooth(from what I prefer, usally heavy Islays). Definetly worth a shot & very reasonably priced + made & bottled in the same distillery.
slainte,
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slainte,
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A bottle of Caol Ila on the way back for the Bowlus Bass Borg. Still haven't opened it yet since I'm trying to clear of a shelf.
What was added and has been opened is a bottle of Old Pulteney. Mmmmmm.
What was added and has been opened is a bottle of Old Pulteney. Mmmmmm.
