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    Impressive! Put that on my list of places to visit... once I remortgage the house!

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    Cousins on my mother's side used to run a hotel on Skye that has an excellently stocked whisky bar. The whisky bar is separate from the "normal" bar, and is only open at weekends or by appointment. I've had some absolutely belting drams from there, some that they charge upwards of £60 a measure for.

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    Quote Originally Posted by solwisesteve View Post
    That was near Gairloch.

    The bar with the biggest selection though was Dornoch Castle Hotel which regularly wins the 'best whiskey bar' awards. I spent thirty quid there for two shots of whiskey (one on each night we were there!).
    I can attest that it's a lovely bar, and is one of the few places that I've ever seen Port Ellen just sitting there ready to be bought by the dram. It would have been a shame to leave all that loveliness in a bottle ....... so we didn't. Super-expensive evening though

    PS If you tried to get whiskey there you'd have been shot!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Longblackcoat View Post

    PS If you tried to get whiskey there you'd have been shot!
    Oh yeah.... well spotted ;-)

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    This stuff is genuinely superb for the price..



    £25 for a litre! If it was twice the price I’d say it was still worth it. Another reason to join the Wine Society!

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    Quote Originally Posted by D_redd View Post
    Wow!! Where was that fella?

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    My guess - Mansfield Hotel in Elgin?


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    Quote Originally Posted by galewis View Post
    Can I pick your brains on the Caol Ila, hoops? I'm a big Islay fan, Lagavulin 16 being my all-time fave, bang-for-buck, but was a bit disappointed with Caol Ila 12. A bit 'damp stale dishcloth' on the nose, which puts me off a bit, and has stopped me looking further up the range. I keep going to back to it every few weeks I always find it the same and adding water doesn't change it in that respect.

    Do you find the 12 similar, or have I got a bad bottling? How do the 14 and 18 compare to the 12?

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    Your bottle might be corked - I had that with a Lagavulin once and it was very unpleasant. Try a dram of Caol Ila in a bar before you write it off, I think it's a great whisky.


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    I've had few bottles of caol ila 12 and its a lovely dram your bottle must be off

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    sound advice

    Quote Originally Posted by Valkyrie View Post
    Your bottle might be corked - I had that with a Lagavulin once and it was very unpleasant. Try a dram of Caol Ila in a bar before you write it off, I think it's a great whisky.


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    We have similar tastes as Lagavulin is one of my favourites, Caol Ila is a very close 2nd though. Try again!

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    I may have missed it being mentioned before - if so apologies - but Arkwright’s in Highworth is always worth a look: http://www.whiskyandwines.com as they carry over 1,300 whiskies.


    I still have several bottles of Clynelish to savour.

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    Just enjoing a nice dram of cask strength 21 year old Glen Scotia. A rather exquisite Campbeltown from the SMWS.
    Best Regards - Peter

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    Quote Originally Posted by Griswold View Post
    Just enjoing a nice dram of cask strength 21 year old Glen Scotia. A rather exquisite Campbeltown from the SMWS.
    Got a membership for birthday like a kid in a sweet shop njoy the glen scotia



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    Quote Originally Posted by dek10000 View Post
    Got a membership for birthday like a kid in a sweet shop njoy the glen scotia
    My youngest son lives in Edinburgh so he's the member. We always end up in the vaults whenever we visit and I always end up bringing a few bottles back with me - after some judicial sampling of course. Enjoy your membership, they do get some outstanding outturns.
    Best Regards - Peter

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    A couple of bottles of the Cotswolds Distillery Inaugural Release arrived the other day. Not had a chance to try it yet, but the reviews are mostly positive, for such a young whisky...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Broussard View Post
    A couple of bottles of the Cotswolds Distillery Inaugural Release arrived the other day. Not had a chance to try it yet, but the reviews are mostly positive, for such a young whisky...
    Same happened with St George's....and now their output is absolute swill.

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    Now this is quite special...and looks good in my office!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Kirk280 View Post
    Now this is quite special...and looks good in my office!

    I'm sure the whisky will be lovely but in truth I'm more impressed with your calendar! How many watches do you need to buy to get on their Christmas Card list?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Valkyrie View Post
    I'm sure the whisky will be lovely but in truth I'm more impressed with your calendar! How many watches do you need to buy to get on their Christmas Card list?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Griswold View Post
    Just enjoing a nice dram of cask strength 21 year old Glen Scotia. A rather exquisite Campbeltown from the SMWS.
    Look out for the releases from Cadenheads. Their recent 1992 25 yo (at 44%) was very good indeed. The general releases from Glen Scotia aren't to be sniffed at either - the NAS Double Cask is very drinkable at around 32 quid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by willie_gunn View Post
    I may have missed it being mentioned before - if so apologies - but Arkwright’s in Highworth is always worth a look: http://www.whiskyandwines.com as they carry over 1,300 whiskies.


    I still have several bottles of Clynelish to savour.
    Arkwrights is my local (just down the road in Faringdon) and make a visit there probably every month or so! Such a great shop!

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    The Dalmore 15 year malt is -30% at Amazon today.

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    Some pretty good offers on at Amazon today generally. Dalmore 15 year at that price is pretty good, for sure. Really would like to try Bruichladdich: The Classic Laddie which they have on at £33.90 today. Cardhu Gold Reserve seems reasonable at around £25 too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Broussard View Post
    A couple of bottles of the Cotswolds Distillery Inaugural Release arrived the other day. Not had a chance to try it yet, but the reviews are mostly positive, for such a young whisky...
    Slightly off topic, but they do a fantastic gin, around £30 a bottle but smoother that any other gin I have tasted.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gareth-W View Post
    The Dalmore 15 year malt is -30% at Amazon today.

    It's even cheaper to buy it in the gift set with 2 glasses. Deal on that ends very soon

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    Quote Originally Posted by HenPecked View Post
    Same happened with St George's....and now their output is absolute swill.
    Man.. I'm glad it's not me that feels like that. I've tried a few different expressions and have even been on a distillery tour earlier this year. I think the folks there are great, and they're clearly pretty passionate about what they're doing but boy is it a rough drink. Even my dad who would probably drink 'blending' whisky neat struggled to finish his taster samples.

    I'm just wondering if it's too young still and needs a few more years in the casks before it starts to come good, but.. it's really not great. It seems to me that the spirit itself just isn't up to scratch.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dandanthewatchman View Post
    It's even cheaper to buy it in the gift set with 2 glasses. Deal on that ends very soon

    That's the one I was referring to Dan.

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    Quote Originally Posted by chicaneuk View Post
    Some pretty good offers on at Amazon today generally. Dalmore 15 year at that price is pretty good, for sure. Really would like to try Bruichladdich: The Classic Laddie which they have on at £33.90 today. Cardhu Gold Reserve seems reasonable at around £25 too.
    Just ordered the Bruichladdich, haven't tried one of theirs yet so I'm quite looking forward to it. The Cardhu is occasionally on offer in Tesco, down from £42 to £25 IIRC.

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    I've been told the Bruichladdich can be something of an acquired taste, but part of the fun of whisky for me is trying as many different distilleries / expressions as possible as sometimes the highly rated stuff is terrible and the 'unusual' stuff can be really enjoyable. Really tempted to order a bottle myself.

    I have actually had a sample of the Bruichladdich Black Art 4.1 (which is fairly pricey) and it was an absolute stonker. So if the Classic Laddie can capture any of that, it should be a winner.
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    It's always a bit of a gamble trying new whiskies however it's a challenge I accept

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    Quote Originally Posted by chicaneuk View Post
    Man.. I'm glad it's not me that feels like that. I've tried a few different expressions and have even been on a distillery tour earlier this year. I think the folks there are great, and they're clearly pretty passionate about what they're doing but boy is it a rough drink. Even my dad who would probably drink 'blending' whisky neat struggled to finish his taster samples.

    I'm just wondering if it's too young still and needs a few more years in the casks before it starts to come good, but.. it's really not great. It seems to me that the spirit itself just isn't up to scratch.
    I think it's to do with the Jim Beam casks they use. Jim Beam has a horrible "tang" to it (similar to JW Red Label) which I think comes from their sour mash process not allowing enough fermentation time.
    St George's very early expressions (the ones Jim Murray waxed lyrical about) I think hadn't had long enough in the barrel to pick up this tang. Their current output is right in the middle of it, but I'm sure given enough time it will mellow out.

    Interestingly on the first tour I did (around the release of Chapter 5, IIRC) we had our tasting first as they were backed up on the tour - as we were going round an American chap asked the tour guide what casks were used, he said they couldn't tell us. Me and another person on the tour said "I bet they're Jim Beam". Of course, as we got to the cask room we were proved right.

    Last year I spent a couple of weeks on Islay with my brother who has connections in the industry, we ended up at a hotel bar with a distiller from Bowmore who agreed with my hypothesis. He said they'd tried Jim Beam casks (as they're significantly cheaper than a lot of other Bourbon casks) and had the same sort of results.

    I've just been on their website to have a look - they're touting a peated sherry cask expression. I bet that's not a complete muddle...

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    After years of 'playing' with whiskey I decided, a couple of months ago, to be a bit more serious; tbh mainly bought about after visiting a couple of distilleries. So gone are the days of grabbing the current special offer malt off the shelf in Sainsburys. In fact I'm making a conscious effort to NOT go for anything that's available via the supermarket shelf.

    After reading all the reviews I've just ordered


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    Quote Originally Posted by solwisesteve View Post
    After years of 'playing' with whiskey I decided, a couple of months ago, to be a bit more serious; tbh mainly bought about after visiting a couple of distilleries. So gone are the days of grabbing the current special offer malt off the shelf in Sainsburys. In fact I'm making a conscious effort to NOT go for anything that's available via the supermarket shelf.

    After reading all the reviews I've just ordered

    Let us know how you get on! I'd be happy to post you a sample or two of some other interesting stuff which you won't find in the supermarket, to see if it whets your appetite a bit further for whisky! :) Just drop me a PM if you want to set something up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by chicaneuk View Post
    Let us know how you get on! I'd be happy to post you a sample or two of some other interesting stuff which you won't find in the supermarket, to see if it whets your appetite a bit further for whisky! :) Just drop me a PM if you want to set something up.

    Cheers :-)

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    I saw one of those focused ads on Facebook for something called "The Dram Team". As I generally buy a single bottle a month, this would be around the same cost (or cheaper, in most cases) and give a decent sample of a lot of different expressions that I wouldn't or couldn't buy a whole bottle of: https://www.thedramteam.co.uk/collec...riptions-gifts

    I've added a subscription to my Christmas List, so if Santa agrees I've been good this year I might get lucky.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dandanthewatchman View Post

    Great deal that.

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    My wife has been tasked with buying a 'peaty' whisky for someone's birthday. Around 40 quid.

    Being more of a Highland/Speyside man, I'm a bit lost. Anyone spotting any bargains peaty bargains out there?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tony View Post
    My wife has been tasked with buying a 'peaty' whisky for someone's birthday. Around 40 quid.

    Being more of a Highland/Speyside man, I'm a bit lost. Anyone spotting any bargains peaty bargains out there?
    The most popular really, and all should be gettable for that price, are Lagavulin 16 Year, Ardbeg 10 Year or Laphroig 10 Year... :)

    Lagavulin 16 leans more towards the smokey side, Laphroig is more 'medicinal' and Ardbeg sort of sits in the middle of the two but all three are pretty heavy on the peat and all are classic, affordable Islay's.

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ardbeg-Year...1561426&sr=8-1 (£40)

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Laphroaig-I...8&sr=1-1-spell (£25 for Laphroig 10 Year - STEAL!)

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lagavulin-Y...1561478&sr=1-1 (£49.. too pricey. Can be had in Costco for just under £40)
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    Laphroaig 10 is on special in Tesco right now, bought a bottle yesterday. They've quite a few discounted at the moment.

    Always have a bottle of this and/or the Quarter Cask in the house. As already said they're very heavy on the medicinal front, there's a distinct TCP aroma on the nose, yet when I'm in the mood for it nothing else will do.

    The Bruichladdich arrived yesterday, will have a measure later tonight.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dandanthewatchman View Post
    Great dram, bought a couple earlier.

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    Quote Originally Posted by chicaneuk View Post
    The most popular really, and all should be gettable for that price, are Lagavulin 16 Year, Ardbeg 10 Year or Laphroig 10 Year... :)

    Lagavulin 16 leans more towards the smokey side, Laphroig is more 'medicinal' and Ardbeg sort of sits in the middle of the two but all three are pretty heavy on the peat and all are classic, affordable Islay's.

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ardbeg-Year...1561426&sr=8-1 (£40)

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Laphroaig-I...8&sr=1-1-spell (£25 for Laphroig 10 Year - STEAL!)

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lagavulin-Y...1561478&sr=1-1 (£49.. too pricey. Can be had in Costco for just under £40)
    Thanks. I've been thinking it would be nice to avoid something as 'supermarket' as Laphroig as a gift but the Ardbeg looks good.

    Also considering Caol Isla 12 or Scapa Glansa.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tony View Post
    Thanks. I've been thinking it would be nice to avoid something as 'supermarket' as Laphroig as a gift but the Ardbeg looks good.

    Also considering Caol Isla 12 or Scapa Glansa.
    The Ardbeg would be my choice for a gift, the Caol Ila 12 is a fav but can be a bit 'medicinal' for some people, the Ardbeg is a bit more rounded with the peat for an introduction to Peaty Islay, say over Bowmore or Laphroaig.
    Saying that, I am partial to the Bowmore 15 Darkest, very nice.

    There is something about the mix of peat/smoke and Sherry/wine cask aged like the Caol Ila Distillers, Bowmore 15, Lagavillin Distillers, Kilchoman Loch Gorm etc.
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    Last day of Amazon Black Friday deals. I’ve just bought a bottle of Talisker 57 North for £24.90!

    (OK it was £44.90 but I had a £20 voucher that Amazon gave me when I kicked off when they didn’t deliver my Rioja...)

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    Ah can't believe I didn't check this thread! Some fantastic deals I've missed. Love Dalmore 15, so smooth and rich. Haven't had Talisker 57 for years, it'd pretty intense stuff.

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    My wife picked this up in Japan, nice to try some different Japanese whisky.

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    Crazy good value @ Aldi £17.95 and smoother than a cats bum 😎👍

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe.K View Post
    smoother than a cats bum [/L]
    You're not selling it to me
    Good luck everybody. Have a good one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by seikopath View Post
    You're not selling it to me


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    Picked up Caol Ila Moch over the weekend, very nice drop and surprisingly smooth
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