Whisky

[shakerman]

Quite like Benromach Peat Smoke as an easy drinker.

Can anybody give any insights into Macallans? Are they a reputable make?

A review of one of the most recent Macallan releases from Malt Review is available here. The conclusion doesn’t pull any punches.

 

[Crook]

Still can't get owa I got a Deanston 18 for £37.50

Ordered one of these yesterday, £41.88 delivered. Had a bottle of the CS stuff which preceded this and it was amazing, this is 46% so have high hopes. WIO have a sale on a couple more of their Benromach stock, here and here. Wished I'd noticed those others yesterday as may have added to my order, great prices

Cheers black-cat, I've went for the peat smoke and the organic, £53-ish delivered.

Coincedently, I've got a Speyburn 10 for £10.53 and Tobermory 12 for £13.85 getting delivered on an Amazon glitch this month.

 

[Cee Jay]

Cheers black-cat, I've went for the peat smoke and the organic, £53-ish delivered.

Coincedently, I've got a Speyburn 10 for £10.53 and Tobermory 12 for £13.85 getting delivered on an Amazon glitch this month.

Yep same here

Tobermory 12 for under £14

 

[Old Prestonian]

Yep same here

Tobermory 12 for under £14

How did you wangle this please?

 

[Crook]

How did you wangle this please?

Fluke/glitch.

I was looking on subscribe & save for some low price everyday drams. They were both reduced, then 15% off S&S and a further 10% off voucher. By the time I'd added them and looked at my 'S&S deliveries', the 10% voucher seems to have been applied as £10 off instead, or applied multiple times like black-cat's Deanston 18.

 

[shakerman]

A whole bunch of relatively cheap Signatory bottlings have been released on TWE

 

[black-cat]

Springbank are now auctioning 6 single cask 21 yo's for the Ukranian appeal, I'll bet they fetch a pretty penny...

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[moanjam]

Springbank are now auctioning 6 single cask 21 yo's for the Ukranian appeal, I'll bet they fetch a pretty penny...

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Cash at the ready !

 

[black-cat]

Cash at the ready !

Auction websites have the ordinary 21 for up to £1,300 these days, these will go beyond that I'd imagine

 

[moanjam]

Auction websites have the ordinary 21 for up to £1,300 these days, these will go beyond that I'd imagine

Way beyond I reckon, we should run a sweepstake, I reckon north of 3k all for a good cause though.

 

[black-cat]

Way beyond I reckon, we should run a sweepstake, I reckon north of 3k all for a good cause though.

I'll say 5, but I honestly believe they could go as high as 8 and even higher. There are some fuckin rich people out there who are fanatical about Springbank. The Chinese are buying them up big style at the min apparently

 

[FC United of Manchester]

Suffering from the dreaded COVID so just asked the missus to pour me a dram blind to test my sense of smell. Couldn’t pick up anything at all on the nose and it turned out to be an Ardbeg
Guess that’s me off the whisky for a while then

 

[Old Prestonian]

Suffering from the dreaded COVID so just asked the missus to pour me a dram blind to test my sense of smell. Couldn’t pick up anything at all on the nose and it turned out to be an Ardbeg
Guess that’s me off the whisky for a while then

The plus is that you can drink any old shite and get pissed without being bothered about the quality.

 

[Cee Jay]

The plus is that you can drink any old shite and get pissed without being bothered about the quality.

Bring out the Jura ( not that he's likely to have any of that)

Or any gift bottles lurking at back of cupboard

 

[Crook]

I'm a sucker for a Macduff but I think that I now have five bottles awaiting consumption so I will try to resist.

I've had a core bottling of Deveron 10 and 12 (Macduff unless I'm mistaken).

I fancy having a go at a Whiskybroker bottling. What would you recommend, they've got a few up on there I think.

 

[Old Prestonian]

I've had a core bottling of Deveron 10 and 12 (Macduff unless I'm mistaken).

I fancy having a go at a Whiskybroker bottling. What would you recommend, they've got a few up on there I think.

Deveron 10 and 12 is indeed produced by the Macduff distillery. I'm unable to help much as the Macduff bottles currently available on Whiskybroker are currently in my awaiting drinking pipeline. I'd maybe go for the Christmas bottling as surely Martin would have used some of his best casks for the Christmas bottles?

As an aside, I'm now a good way through consuming the Rattray Tobermory and although I'm enjoying it (with a good slosh of water) I'm unsure if I actually prefer the core 12 year old.

 

[FC United of Manchester]

As an aside, I'm now a good way through consuming the Rattray Tobermory and although I'm enjoying it (with a good slosh of water) I'm unsure if I actually prefer the core 12 year old.

This is what I wrote back in October on the Rattray Tobermory:

Disclaimer - it’s a neck pour although I did give 30 minutes to breathe.

Not getting too much from the nose, little bit of spice but a bit underwhelming.
Drop of water opens it up a bit but not getting the sweeter notes I’d expect from a bourbon cask - I’m beginning to suspect it might be a bit of a tired cask.

Side by side comparison I prefer the OB despite it being 46% v Cask strength.

Overall a bit underwhelmed but I reserve the right to change my mind when it’s had a bit more air in

I didn't change my mind on it as I ploughed through it. Not one of their better bottlings IMO.

 

[Crook]

Cheers black-cat, I've went for the peat smoke and the organic, £53-ish delivered.

Coincedently, I've got a Speyburn 10 for £10.53 and Tobermory 12 for £13.85 getting delivered on an Amazon glitch this month.

The buggers at Amazon have cancelled my delivery because of their pricing error.

First I got stiffed by Master of Malt on the Kilkerran release, now this. If it wasn't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all.

 

[black-cat]

Anyone else had the email from Ardbeg regards their latest NFT release? Wtf is that all about!?!

 

[FC United of Manchester]

Anyone else had the email from Ardbeg regards their latest NFT release? Wtf is that all about!?!

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