We went to a tasting weekend at Glenmorangie some years back. It all got a bit vague after the breakfast tasting session - in the bonded warehouse, straight from the casks... Best breakfast ever...
We have a club here, we get a barrel every year or so from well known distilleries at a bargain price, bottle it and auction for charity. Plus we all get a bottle too... We're not allowed to publicly say which distillery it is, but it's a great way to get excellent cask whisky!
We have a club here, we get a barrel every year or so from well known distilleries at a bargain price, bottle it and auction for charity. Plus we all get a bottle too... We're not allowed to publicly say which distillery it is, but it's a great way to get excellent cask whisky!
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Sounds nice. It was on my 2020 travel list potentially until COVID ruined it. I really like the plain old Glenmorangie 10. Light, but hard to go wrong with.
Seemingly Whisky and Audio are a perfect combination.
Hans
As long as you switch from Vinyl to digital after the 3rd or 4th glass to protect your records
When I went to university, students drank beer and lots of Sherry.
Nowadays, Sherry is a completely forgotten drink in the Netherlands.
It used to be very populair in the UK after Francis Drake in 1587 conguered Cadiz, destroyed their fleet, and took home 2900 casks of Xeres, Anglicised to Sherry, this all according to Wiki. Sherry was considered amongst the finest wines at that time in Europe.
Nice reading all those heroic stories.
Hans
Some 20 years ago, during my first night at a 4 star hotel in Madrid, I called room service for a beer. Silence at the other side of the phone and then a hesitant voice “we don’t have beer”. I then asked for whiskey, I got a “this we have sir”.
Next morning, I had to take a taxi. We were passing in front of a place that seemed to me like a bar. It had a ‘Cerveceria’ sign at the front. I asked the taxi driver what does this word mean and he told me that ‘beer’ is called ‘cerveza’ in Spanish.
That night at the hotel I called the room service again. I asked for a beer. Same response as the previous night. “Err, we don’t have”. Then I asked if they had cerveza. “Oh yes, cerveza we have sir”
I had enjoyed a really fine sherry once. We (a company of five students) broke the seal of the small cask and drained it in two days. Later we were notified it was a two generations-old wine.
George
eek, one bottle of that or 10 of a lesser malt. That would be tricky for me were I not able to justify either at the moment
Wow, single malt seem to be cheap over there... Here, where any spirit distribution is still a govt. monopoly, it is only x5 of any decent single malt. Still expensive, hence the homeopathic doses.
Then I'll take it back, it's the other way around, the XXV bottle is here the equivalent of 230 quid as of today. Come to Canada and get a lifetime stock, or start a productive business . That's one kind of a margin, half price, one trip over the big pond included .
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Glenlivet 25 is one of the more reasonably priced 25s also, which tells you just how crazy the demand is. I recall my father getting gifted bottles of Macallan 25 in the early 2000s, which was a few hundred at the time, but now is 10x that in the US since Macallan has become extremely popular (and overrated).
I know whisky collection and speculation is a thing now, but I’m not sure if that’s affecting the standard 25 yr prices or only rarer bottles.
I know whisky collection and speculation is a thing now, but I’m not sure if that’s affecting the standard 25 yr prices or only rarer bottles.
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Like this, worth a second mortgage. Available, on special order, at the liquor store in my neighborhood. Macallan 1951 is only 45k, a bargain.
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What? No giving whisky company the technical benefit of the doubt like you should have given to everybody else with an understandable technical story behind their products, although you can't check whether this is the real story?I mean, most whisky manufacturers have no story at all, came to their design after much trial and error, which is O.K., but they came with some silly nonsense explanation afterwards.
And repeating the question you've put before, does that whisky company really achieve their technical objectives and does it have a positive impact on the quality?
The proof of the pudding is in the drinking.
