Thread: Single Malt

If you like peaty single malts, you may like Lagavulin. Nice and smokey!

I have nothing to offer here but my amusement at how well you know your whiskies, me I know zip, i come from an area so close to the best and i only drink it when there is no rum available.
I have worked at quite a few of the distilleries you have all mentioned and got a kick from it, to see them all.

Fact...did you all know that dufftown in moray used to have seven stills round it, 2 of them being Balvenie and Glenfiddich, and they are right next door to each other!!
I am slowly sipping my way through Macallan Elegancia ,Glenfiddich Solera and a bottle of Craigellachie which was given to me by the Mashman there, a very good friend of mine who served his apprentiseship and went to college with me.

On the other hand i am hoping my brother who is a Process Engineer with Phillips semi-conductor in Manchester gets the job at Glenfiddich he tried for as it could be beneficial to me as alot of our friends here like a wee tipple.

Sorry to have nothing to offer but i like the way you speak so knowledgeably about Malt Whisky.

regards,simon

Cragganmore is a wonderful single malt. I am gererally a blended drinker and love The Famous Grouse but The Cragganmore is really very nice and it is around 40-50 a bottle.

Talisker and Lagavulin. Laphroaig brings up the rear. Best I ever had was laying down the cash for a bottle of Talisker 20-Year.

Only a Noob but working my way through a few I seem to be taking to Sherry also somebody who was pretty knowledgeable and was teaching me a little recommended something with a a and he said I would like the 12 that it ran in the low thirty's said it was one of the best bang for the bucks out there but I forgot the Name HELP!!!!!

Amontillado perhaps?

Just picked up a bottle of Laphroaig quarter cask. I don't have the language to describe it, but it's nice stuff. I had planned on buying a bottle of Johnny Walker blue, but after the sticker shock wore off, I decided on something else.

Originally Posted by TULIP

Just picked up a bottle of Laphroaig quarter cask.

*drools a little*

Originally Posted by TULIP

I had planned on buying a bottle of Johnny Walker blue, but after the sticker shock wore off, I decided on something else.

I'm morally against blended scotches, but I do hear the Walker Blue is quite tasty. The 20-year Talisker I got was $160 (back when I had money, which really means before I went back to school, but could easily mean before RAD). That was quite possibly the best adult beverage I have ever imbibed, it made me woder if I shouldn't have laid down the even $200 for the 25-year. I've got a bottle of it stashed for when I graduate. Heh, hopefully it won't be a 30-year by the time that happens.

Originally Posted by chancecatalyst

I'm morally against blended scotches

I am, too, but I'd heard such good things about JW Blue that I was willing to give it a try...until I saw the price tag. Our little state-run liquor store doesn't carry the older, higher-end single malts, but when I saw the quarter cask Laphroaig, I had to buy it. I like it, but the jury is still out as to whether I like it better than the regular joe Laphroaig...if I can say that.

I do like Laphroaig, especially the 15-year. Is the Quarter Cask a cask-strength bottling?