Talisker 10 is £30 on Amazon at the moment...recommended.
Talisker 10 is £30 on Amazon at the moment...recommended.
Nifty trick for Tesco Clubcard users, subscribe to Clubcard premium, you get awarded 2 10% off big shop vouchers per month and can be cancelled within 30 days at no charge. Tesco have quite a few malts on Clubcard offer prices anyway so for example Ardbeg 10 is £47 normally, £37 with Clubcard and then using the big shop voucher it’s a further 10% off. Handy if picking a few bottles up at the same time.
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Current selection, mostly still unopened. Think I need to drink a few before buying again!
Aberlour 10
Ardbeg 10
Bowmore no 1
Bowmore 12 X 2
Bunnhabhain Struiddar X 2
Caol Ila 10
Finlaggen Islay Cask Strength
Glen Grant majors reserve
Glenlivet Caribbean reserve
Highland Park 12
Highland Park Viking Tribe
Jura Superstition
Laphroaig 10
Laphroaig quarter cask
Talisker 10 x 2
Talisker Skye
Teachers (70’s bottling rescued from the parents house when clearing it)
Jack Daniels no7
Some reasonably cheap Ardbeg on amazon
10yr £37
An Oa £39.75
Wee Beastie £32.48
Also
Smokehead £27.15
Does anyone watch ‘Ralfy’ on YouTube? His whisky of the year was Arran Distillery 10 year old, so I went and grabbed one earlier from my local merchant to give a bash.
Yup, big fan of Ralfy. Not tried the Arrans yet so will be interested to hear your thought. The Bladnoch 10 was a revelation!
Gents, I have a good friends significant birthday approaching. I’m thinking of a Macallan 12 Sherry Oak, as that’s one of his favourites, are there any other alternatives in a similar vein that he may not have tried that I should think about?
If that’s one of his favourites then it seems like the right choice in my opinion. If you want to get something different, here are a few options:
Nikki Coffey Malt
Hazelburn 10 year old
Old Pulteney 12 year old
Amrut Fusion
Lagavulin 16 Year old
These are all different from one another.
I recently found GlenDronach 15 to be disappointingly average....for the price point.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a lovely whisky. But just not stand-out.
^Have not tried the new Revival - the old one was one of my favourites.
Just started my journey into the whiskey world. I was gifted a bottle of Laphroaig for Christmas and have been dipping into a bottle of Powers Gold label.
Any other more mellow recommendations I should try?
Oi, pouring Laphroaig down the sink!
Sacrilege!
I can confirm that the Glenrothes 12 is a cracker....especially for £34. Recommended.
Have got a couple of bottle here, but most have been mentioned in this thread.
I got given one of those malt advent calendars last Xmas, and there was one in there that was really different so I tried tracking a full bottle down.
Only just managed it, but it was definitely worth it. Its a French malt called Brenne, and it's got quite a distinctive taste, my lad who is a malt drinker doesnt like it but I really rate it. Couldn't place the taste at first but when I googled it, people mentioned those foam banana sweets and that pretty much was it.
Quite a distinctive taste, but possibly not for everyone!!
Anyone else ever tried it?
Malc
ktmog6uk
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Taste buds are knackered due to a touch of the sniffles (negative C19 result yesterday, thankfully) yet I feel compelled to attempt to wake the buggers up.
Ardbeg's 10 should do it!
Slàinte Mhath
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on the Tamnavulin double cask tonight, quite decent for £20.
i'm tempted to go for a Glenfarclas 105 as my next purchase, but i'm dithering between that and pushing the boat out for the 21 or 25 as they seem well priced for such ages - thoughts?
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I’ve got the glenfarclas 21 and 25 not opened them yet bought them as I was impressed with the 10 year old
Glenfarclas 15 is decent though not tried the others. This tonight
Changed my mind to this
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I can confirm when buying a bottle of Macallan you need to factor in
1) Shipping Box
2) Transit box
3) Protective foam
4) Whiskey Box
5) Papers
6) Whiskey bottle
They must of been intering with Rolex over the summer
If you're on this too, Stewart Buchanan keeps talking about the 21 and 25 having peated whiskies in their mix. No mention of that on the website, but I can see specific 21 and 25 peated variants. The ones in the set are the standard though...did you receive the peated ones?
I can taste hints of peat, but I can't tell if that's just because he keeps suggesting there is peat! (I was on Octomore 11.3 last night, and that might still be lingering on my palate)
Get together with a couple of pals tonight. Fire pit on, blankets at the ready and three whiskies i know will be present are Bunnahabhain 12, Aberlour 12, and Benriach 12 sherried.
Few bits of cheese, some date and walnut cake and meats etc, can't wait
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Sounds lovely. We're looking forward to July - house booked on Islay with 4 mates to do the same thing.
As much as I love whiskey, I just can’t get on with anything peated. Redbreast 12 yr old for me later ?
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