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Not a great whisky fan myself, but I know there are a few on here.
I was wondering whether anyone has tried Aldi whisky, which seems to be doing pretty well in terms of winning awards....
Great to see award winning stuff can be had for not a great deal of money!!
Yep, the Standard Highland earl is always in the cupboard. The Black is very nice, but not enough more nice to be worth the extra for my simple tastes.
Top stuff though, their bourbon is nice too, and the spiced rum.
Given a lot of the money is tax, storage etc the rest is ingredients, blending etc. The price thing is interesting. A good maker could get something very good from the right range of spirits and barrels
prawny - MemberTop stuff though, their bourbon is nice too, and the spiced rum.
Ah! Great. That's more up my street. I will have to investigate. Thanks for the heads-up!!
[i]priced at just £12.99[/i]
Brilliant! The Whisky snobs will be grinding their teeth. It can't be good, it's less than £80!
Brilliant! The Whisky snobs will be grinding their teeth. It can't be good, it's less than £80!
What tosh. At £80 I would expect angels tears on my tongue. Most of the extra cost above £40 is usually down to wastage in the barrel as it evaporates away due to longer storage time.
To further refine Mike's post above careful purchase of secondhand barrels for maturing the stuff will be a major cost saving in the shorter age spirit.
Usually get the Speyside single malt for about £18.Very happy with that when I can find it!
.. there is Speyside and there's Speyside. As above, age has some effect. Given that it's almost generic, they will be able to search around for a good price, so what was good 3 months ago may not be the same dram now.
I'm sure I read somewhere that if you use a barcode scanner shopping totaliser app on your phone that one of the Lidl single malts comes up as Glenlivet reserve.
I'm a fan of Black Grouse (or whatever they renamed it?)
Can be had for around £16 when on offer.
I'll be giving some of those a try, I've only had their Islay single malt, which is decent enough if a bit fiery - I see that didn't get any medals! .
I had one of their malts, think it was the Speyside. I thought it was ok, not amazing but decent enough and good value.
priced at just £12.99Brilliant! The Whisky snobs will be grinding their teeth. It can't be good, it's less than £80!
Poor attempt at a troll, the real whiskey drinkers will do anything they can to buy as good as possible for as little as possible.
I'm delighted when I can find a proper Kentucky bourbon for around £11 a bottle, and a good single malt for less than £15.
I'll certainly be checking out these.
I'm just finishing (as in right now!) my LIDL Ben Bracken 22yo Islay. Allegedly from Bowmore stock, it's at the softer end of Islays, and very nice indeed!
The London Dry Gin is the business as well
so what was good 3 months ago may not be the same dram now.
Kcal nails it.
Aldi/lidl are just a lucky bag.
For a while lidl were selling off the old Montrose distillery stock and it was tasty ...but it hasn't been nice for a few years now so I stopped
It's nice a cheap I take a bottle of aldi stuff to work with me for an apres dinner night cap(I'm live in for 5 weeks) and every bottle I've had has been different
Their Islay single malt isn't bad at all. The point about single malt is it must come from one distillery, there are about eight distilleries on Islay, and they're all good.
kcal - Member.. there is Speyside and there's Speyside. As above, age has some effect. Given that it's almost generic, they will be able to search around for a good price, so what was good 3 months ago may not be the same dram now.
Interesting.
So, basically they got lucky with a bulk buy of a whisky product that just so happened to be 'a good brew'? But there's no guarantee that the next lot that they buy will keep winning awards?
From the article:
The awards are the latest triumph for Aldi whiskies; in 2016 alone, Aldi’s own label whiskies scooped 22 accolades from prestigious awarding bodies. The discount supermarket has continued to impress industry experts this year, with award totals now sitting at 28 accolades over the past 12 months.
Presumably the award results will potentially dry-up depending on how 'lucky' they are with their next lot of purchasing?
They seem to be winning awards with other spirits too, so I wonder whether they have a good buying tem who recognise a nice tipple when they taste it?
Presumably the award results will potentially dry-up depending on how 'lucky' they are with their next lot of purchasing?
the anti corruption drive in China is going to mean a lot of good whisky looking for a home....
So, basically they got lucky with a bulk buy of a whisky product that just so happened to be 'a good brew'? But there's no guarantee that the next lot that they buy will keep winning awards?
More or less. A lot of malt goes into blends. If a blend uses a lot of malt A for a year, then distillery A may well up it's production, but then next year the blend decides to drop malt A in favour of malt B, then a lot of malt A comes on to the market, probbaly cheaply as bonded warehousing isn't cheap so the distillery will be looking to offload it as soon as. If distillery A then finds another customer for it's product or finds some more bottling resource, then that malt may not be available to Aldi much longer. Aldi's use of their own brand means that a) the original brand isn't being cheapened by association with discount supermarkets and b) if malt A supplies dry up, they can just use malt C and not bother redesigning the packaging
OT but att first glance glance I thought thread title was 'whisky fans tried an apple tipple.
Which has just made me salivate at the thought of an apple-y malt. I know there are flavoured whiskies and apple jim beam etc. Any recommendations?