The last bottle of whisky is leaving Scotland
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FullCircle
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I collected the stuff for years.
I can assure you that it will not be off. I watched a Guy buying a 6k bottle of Whisky 'because it completes the collection' . Oh my God, he's not going to drink it.
I also was at the 75th birthday party of a good friend. He and his mate had both bought a bottle of 12 year old Cardhu in 1939 when they both joined the Navy in Coastal Minesweepers. If one of them died, the other was to drink the bottle in memoriam. Against a great deal of odds, they both survived, and had both kept their bottles intact until 6 years ago, when they realised it would be a good idea to open Erics bottle, and I was invited. It tasted perfect, and had improved or been reformulated, because I snatched a 12 year old Cardhu from my own collection for comparison. Those who say it does not improve after bottling are wrong, but it must be very gradual.
Personally I can't tell the difference over about 150 quid a bottle! It took me over 5 years to drink my most expensive one dry. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
I would like to see it drunk rather than just sitting in a collection of dusty tradeables.
Anyone joining me on Full Circle will find a bottle or two for pleasure purposes .....
Slainte
Jim (with a glass of Jack Daniels Single barrel in hand)
I can assure you that it will not be off. I watched a Guy buying a 6k bottle of Whisky 'because it completes the collection' . Oh my God, he's not going to drink it.
I also was at the 75th birthday party of a good friend. He and his mate had both bought a bottle of 12 year old Cardhu in 1939 when they both joined the Navy in Coastal Minesweepers. If one of them died, the other was to drink the bottle in memoriam. Against a great deal of odds, they both survived, and had both kept their bottles intact until 6 years ago, when they realised it would be a good idea to open Erics bottle, and I was invited. It tasted perfect, and had improved or been reformulated, because I snatched a 12 year old Cardhu from my own collection for comparison. Those who say it does not improve after bottling are wrong, but it must be very gradual.
Personally I can't tell the difference over about 150 quid a bottle! It took me over 5 years to drink my most expensive one dry. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
I would like to see it drunk rather than just sitting in a collection of dusty tradeables.
Anyone joining me on Full Circle will find a bottle or two for pleasure purposes .....
Slainte
Jim (with a glass of Jack Daniels Single barrel in hand)
boatmike
Well-known member
If somebody offered you £10,000 for a bottle of anything would you sell it to him?
Think how many bottles of good vintage single malt you could buy for £10,000 and then ask who is getting ripped off here? Yes it's gone off.....to Hong Kong, and the long faces at the distillery probably changed to hysterics after the cheque cleared!
According to my esteemed Grandfather who single handedly kept several distilleries open during his lifetime, a good malt, is like a mature woman and is at its very best if properly looked after at 40 years of age. After that, still like a woman, it can maintain its appeal if looked after but certainly does not improve.......
Think how many bottles of good vintage single malt you could buy for £10,000 and then ask who is getting ripped off here? Yes it's gone off.....to Hong Kong, and the long faces at the distillery probably changed to hysterics after the cheque cleared!
According to my esteemed Grandfather who single handedly kept several distilleries open during his lifetime, a good malt, is like a mature woman and is at its very best if properly looked after at 40 years of age. After that, still like a woman, it can maintain its appeal if looked after but certainly does not improve.......
tcm
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ooh, i enjoyed that post.
Stingo
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Let's say that you invested £1500 sixty three years ago. At 3% interest, your money would now be worth £10 000.
If on the other hand, you paid rent and salaries and all those other nasty business expenses, after 63 years you would have spent more than £10 000 per bottle. Surely it has to be better to put the money in the bank and the whisky down your throat?
If on the other hand, you paid rent and salaries and all those other nasty business expenses, after 63 years you would have spent more than £10 000 per bottle. Surely it has to be better to put the money in the bank and the whisky down your throat?
Stingo
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tcm, can you remember who it was that came aboard Stingo at the 1st Hamble get-together and proceeded to finished off half a bottle of my cheap 'n nasty Sainsbury's Brandy and then proclaimed that it was the finest whisky they'd had in ages?
Benbow
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OK, you must be the bloke to ask.
After years of thinking I didn't like whisky because I didn't like Johnny Walker, I have discovered that I really do like a single malt, but I am no expert (couldn't spell connoisseur). A 12 y.o. Glenlivet went down especially well. I will be passing through several airport duty free shops in the next few days (including Edinburgh).
What do you recommend I try next ?
After years of thinking I didn't like whisky because I didn't like Johnny Walker, I have discovered that I really do like a single malt, but I am no expert (couldn't spell connoisseur). A 12 y.o. Glenlivet went down especially well. I will be passing through several airport duty free shops in the next few days (including Edinburgh).
What do you recommend I try next ?
cozy
New member
6 pints of Old Speckled Hen, a packet of Pork Scratchings and some rough old Stilton cheese.
Stingo
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Or as TwisterKen would say "Add nothing to your whisky but more whisky"
Rowana
Two steps lower than the ships' cat
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What do you recommend I try next ?
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This is my local distillery -
http://www.scotchwhisky.net/distilleries/glen_garioch.htm
You could do worse than try this . . .
What do you recommend I try next ?
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This is my local distillery -
http://www.scotchwhisky.net/distilleries/glen_garioch.htm
You could do worse than try this . . .
Rowana
Two steps lower than the ships' cat
Try this . .
http://www.morrisonbowmore.co.uk/glen_html/index.html
My Local (wrong url first time ! )
http://www.morrisonbowmore.co.uk/glen_html/index.html
My Local (wrong url first time ! )
jimi
Well-known member
here\'s the best of the lot
tome
New member
Try a few and see what you like. Eg, the Islay malts are distinctively peaty which you may like or not. I have my favourites, but they may not be yours and there's much pleasure to be had in sampling them all.
There's no better luxury for me than to peer over the washboards and take in the atmosphere with a good single malt on a cold night, with the heater ticking over down below.
There's no better luxury for me than to peer over the washboards and take in the atmosphere with a good single malt on a cold night, with the heater ticking over down below.
BrendanS
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Quite. I love the Islays, but far too iodine for some. Others love smooth. I like the way the textures and taste can vary so much for what is a quite simply made spirit
Bejasus
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you say that, but I don't find Bowmore particularly peaty, and as for 10yo Jura, I think it's the smoothest Scottish malt there is.
bilbobaggins
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Re: The last bottle of whisky - a little secret knowledge!
This is not well known. So don't tell anyone.....
Arguably - and who would argue over knowledge of this kind? - the best source of good whiskies, malts single and blended, with probably the best prices and the widest range I have seen in an occasionally good lifetime, is found in the back of the little shoppe called 'The Green Wellie' at Tyndrum, a quaint little hamlet on the road to Oban and the West.
So now you know.
If you have a boat up that way, you'll know already and be cursing me for betraying the 'last hielan' secret' to the great southern unwashed. If not, and planning to head that way sometime soon, you'll maybe visit, and offer up a small paean for me this summer while tucked away hidden in some stunning anchorage to the NE of Tobermory ( hiding from the West Highland Week Hooligans), and sampling again the suggested best from Speyside, Islay, The Lowlands, and - perhaps - Orkney. Try also the special little cheeses and oatmeal biscuits, with the mackerel you've just caught by hand and fried in butter and oatmeal crumbs from the biscuits..... Beat that, Padstow!
No, I don't have shares. I wish.....
This is not well known. So don't tell anyone.....
Arguably - and who would argue over knowledge of this kind? - the best source of good whiskies, malts single and blended, with probably the best prices and the widest range I have seen in an occasionally good lifetime, is found in the back of the little shoppe called 'The Green Wellie' at Tyndrum, a quaint little hamlet on the road to Oban and the West.
So now you know.
If you have a boat up that way, you'll know already and be cursing me for betraying the 'last hielan' secret' to the great southern unwashed. If not, and planning to head that way sometime soon, you'll maybe visit, and offer up a small paean for me this summer while tucked away hidden in some stunning anchorage to the NE of Tobermory ( hiding from the West Highland Week Hooligans), and sampling again the suggested best from Speyside, Islay, The Lowlands, and - perhaps - Orkney. Try also the special little cheeses and oatmeal biscuits, with the mackerel you've just caught by hand and fried in butter and oatmeal crumbs from the biscuits..... Beat that, Padstow!
No, I don't have shares. I wish.....
Bejasus
New member
Re: The last bottle of whisky - a little secret knowledge!
I like Cadenheads in Campbeltown too.
I like Cadenheads in Campbeltown too.
Bejasus
New member
Re: The last bottle of whisky - a little secret knowledge!
My mother was from Bute and one of my aunts lived on Islay where her husband was an Excise man at the Laphroig Distillery. Islay Dunlop and Bute Dunlop cheeses are sorely missed. However, I have now discovered Gigha waxed cheeses, in particular the cheddar with claret. Scrummy.
My mother was from Bute and one of my aunts lived on Islay where her husband was an Excise man at the Laphroig Distillery. Islay Dunlop and Bute Dunlop cheeses are sorely missed. However, I have now discovered Gigha waxed cheeses, in particular the cheddar with claret. Scrummy.
tome
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Re: The last bottle of whisky - a little secret knowledge!
Brilliant post, and tucked away for my itinerary when I visit my mum in Iona. She's shortly moving there from the south coast, indeed the removal van from Oban arrived at her house in Emsworth this evening.
Brilliant post, and tucked away for my itinerary when I visit my mum in Iona. She's shortly moving there from the south coast, indeed the removal van from Oban arrived at her house in Emsworth this evening.
Ohdrat
New member
Re: That removal van
Get it back up here as sooon as poss it's the only one North of Perth!
Oh and my favs of the single malts is Highland Park (Orcadian) Tho the most famous local distillery (of the many) is of course the Glen of Tranquility which isnae bad... and plenty of different finishes (Ive no idea what the real term for this is) to choose from.
Get it back up here as sooon as poss it's the only one North of Perth!
Oh and my favs of the single malts is Highland Park (Orcadian) Tho the most famous local distillery (of the many) is of course the Glen of Tranquility which isnae bad... and plenty of different finishes (Ive no idea what the real term for this is) to choose from.
