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#681
Eric Cioe said:
The Disterller's Editions are just finished in a sherry cask, right?
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As I understand it, the idea was for a second aging in a different wood, but that it was up to the individual distiller to choose the second kind of cask for aging. I could very well be wrong on this, though.
 
#682
tombowlus said:
As I understand it, the idea was for a second aging in a different wood, but that it was up to the individual distiller to choose the second kind of cask for aging. I could very well be wrong on this, though.
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From the Talisker site...

"The Distillers Edition is unique: after its usual aging process in American oak casks, the whisky undergoes a second maturation in casks previously holding sherry. The experience is older, sweeter and richer than the regular bottlings."

From Shopper's Vineyard, whom I consider to be a well informed source...

"Like all of the Classic Malts Selections Distiller's Edition, this Talisker has been double-matured in a second cask after the original maturation period (in this case in an Amoroso Sherry cask). The experience is older, sweeter and richer than the regular bottlings. This Edition has a very special bitter-sweet harmony where the peat softens on the palate to a rich, sweet, juicy fruit finish.

The nose is extremely sharp and well focused, with quite wonderful sultana sweetness. Chestnut brown, this is a really full-bodied Talisker, the peat, crisp at first, softens to enormous richness in the mouth, then wafts around the palate with sweet, roasted malt and a heathery dryness.

The finish shows deep cocoa notes, magnificent vanilla and lingering, earthy peat. It is exemplary in balance between sweet and dry, with sweetness always having the slight edge.

Bottled in 2009
Distilled in 1998"
 
#684
tombowlus said:
I'll have to read some of my labels at home, but I thought that I had read some DE bottles which were aged in a second cask that was something other than sherry...
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Just looking through my Classic Malts Selection catalog, it says this: "These limited-production, vintage bottlings of the Classic Malts Selection have been double matured, first for a number of years in aged bourbon barrels, and then for up to six months in either sherry or port casks."

Here's what it says of the finishing cask of each of the Classic Malt Distillers Edition:
Glenkinchie: Amontillado
Dalwhinne: Olorosa
Cragganmore: Port
Oban: Mantilla Fino
Talisker: Amoroso
Lagavulin: Pedro Ximenez

So all of them except Cragganmore are finished in a sherry cask of some type.
 
#685
I love the marketing speak that is 'double matured'!

Still, this type of 'finishing' can produce some fantastic stuff and it's nice to think that it all comes down to experience, expertise and a little bit of luck! In most distilleries the decision about what barrel and how long comes to down the the chief whisky maker himself.

(Not sure what happens at Classic Malts, which IMHO has become the Coca-Cola of the SMW industry, but I'd imagine that each of of their owned distilleries still operates with a chief whisky maker.)
 
#688
Eric Cioe said:
Just looking through my Classic Malts Selection catalog, it says this: "These limited-production, vintage bottlings of the Classic Malts Selection have been double matured, first for a number of years in aged bourbon barrels, and then for up to six months in either sherry or port casks."

Here's what it says of the finishing cask of each of the Classic Malt Distillers Edition:
Glenkinchie: Amontillado
Dalwhinne: Olorosa
Cragganmore: Port
Oban: Mantilla Fino
Talisker: Amoroso
Lagavulin: Pedro Ximenez

So all of them except Cragganmore are finished in a sherry cask of some type.
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Thanks for sharing those details! :)
 
#689
Thunderitter said:
Would it surprise you to say I had!

A fine wee drop from Campbeltown, not quite either the 10 or the 14, but it was brought out to satisfy the demand for a cheaper bottle, that still had the full peatiness of it's big brothers.
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Cool, thanks! Yeah, the price was modest by comparison to what I paid for my 14. I didn't buy the CV... I wanted to check here first, and while I'm sure it's a fine scotch there's really no compelling reason for me to get it with the 14 already on the shelf. :)
 
#690
Vic said:
Cool, thanks! Yeah, the price was modest by comparison to what I paid for my 14. I didn't buy the CV... I wanted to check here first, and while I'm sure it's a fine scotch there's really no compelling reason for me to get it with the 14 already on the shelf. :)
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I'd totally agree with that and I'd do the same: 14 y.o. > 10 y.o. > CV!
 
#691
Thunderitter said:
I'd totally agree with that and I'd do the same: 14 y.o. > 10 y.o. > CV!
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BTW, for those curious (as I was in the store), what CV means, is nowhere on the bottle or box, but it means "curriculum vitae".

This term (including the CV abbreviation) is often used in Europe to describe a document we here in the USA refer to as a Resume, but literally translated it's really more like the "a course of life", or maybe a story/history of a subject's life.

The odd part here is, I would generally take that, on a bottle of scotch, to say "this is the culmination of all we learned over the history of this drink", indicating a very premium dram, but for some reason, such is not the case with this one... it's actually a more pedestrian version of Longrow. Left me very confused.
 
#692
Springbank have made several CVs over the last 15 years, so think of CV as more as the application of a name/brand to Longrow than anything else. As mentioned the reasoning behind the Longrow CV was to make a whisky at a particular price point.

You might also say that a CV provides a 'sample picture' of a person and the same is true of the Longrow CV!

It's still a very drinkable drop and very good value at the price. As things go, the Springbank distillery is a low volume operation, making in a year what some distilleries make in a month or even a week in the case of someone like Glenlivet or Gledfiddich. Longrow makes up about 15% of they annual output of the distillery so it is indeed a very low volume whisky.
 
#694
Interestingly, I just got my monthly Springbank newsletter in my inbox and it shows that on top of a release of Springbank 18 y.o next month (woo hoo, and I'll be there to get a bottle) they are also releasing a Springbank CV!
 
#695
Thunderitter said:
Interestingly, I just got my monthly Springbank newsletter in my inbox and it shows that on top of a release of Springbank 18 y.o next month (woo hoo, and I'll be there to get a bottle) they are also releasing a Springbank CV!
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Ewwww... CV... second rate mouthwash... ;) :D :D :D :D

(jk!!!!!) :)
 
#699
I had two small glasses tonight, one of Auchentoshan Original, and one of Laphroaig Quarter Cask. The Auchentoshan stuff was only my second glass of it and I'm not sure what I think yet. I bought it because I wanted to try a lowland, and it's a good bit different than most of my standard fare. The Laphroaig Quarter Cask is amazing. I like the standard 10 year a good deal but the Quarter Cask is about a quarter mile further down the road for me, and probably my favorite single malt thus far.

And just to spark some conversation we had several pages back, I drank it out of this glass:

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It definitely makes nosing the drink more intense. Plus, it's so much more graceful than your standard rocks glass.
 

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