Thread: Scotch/whiskey of the day

Originally Posted by Ezekiel81

Cool that they stock it. Ours has improved their selection in the last few years, but it's just not a very big shop. I think they only had three single malts the first time I went in there, but they've got more than ten now. Still not a great selection, but at least it stops me impulse buying too often.

Yeah, that is a good thing I guess
Still, Vinmonopolet, imho, has improved greatly over the last few years with a more customer based focus, rather than just being a state governed brake disk on our freedom to choose what we drink.

I suspect it really depends on the staff at each place though.
At my local place there are really knowledgable and helpful employees that tries their very best to get the customers what they want.

Originally Posted by Birnando

Yeah, that is a good thing I guess
Still, Vinmonopolet, imho, has improved greatly over the last few years with a more customer based focus, rather than just being a state governed brake disk on our freedom to choose what we drink.

I suspect it really depends on the staff at each place though.
At my local place there are really knowledgable and helpful employees that tries their very best to get the customers what they want.

I agree. The staff at my place are very customer focused and friendly, and are quite well trained. Only one of them seems to know anything about whisky, but they do their best. I ordered a bottle of cask strength springbank a month or so ago and they couldn't tell me much about it, but she saw the name of the importer and immediately got excited. She said they she doesn't really know whisky but that importer brings in the best wines and they never bring any rubbish in. They're the ones who imported your bottle of Old Particular by the look of things. I think one of the staff there knows whisky, but only one of them and you never know when she'll be working. To be fair, if a town this size in England had a bottle shop as good I'd be quite surprised.