[Closed] STW Single Malt drinkers - Tell me about a bottle that you have tried recently.

Macallan 18

Very expensive

Very very nice. Made my favourite Bunnahabhain taste like wee.

Worth every penny. Apparently I should have not opened it though, but in my opinion, it's there for drinking.

Jura superstition, lightly peated and very delicious.

Talisker.
Not tried it before.
First taste last night.

Salty AND peppery - mmmmm.
Not the depth of flavour I was expecting, find it hard to get past the pepperyness tbh!

Requires further investigation, happily.

Sat in Aberlour this morning, I was sniffing the air and wishing I didn't have the three hour drive home ahead, or I would have popped in for a tour of a nearby distillery.

(I still really like an Aberfeldy 12yr - like honey, or a Cragganmore - nice and nutty)

Sitting in Aberlour now, but then I do live here 😉

GF just bought me a Mortlach 15yo not quite as good as the 16 but pretty damn close and a good bit cheaper I think.

Also liking the Balvenie 14yo Caribbean Cask, it's especially good on a bivi 🙂

Yamazaki 12. Ignore the haterz/purists and get on it!

lovely Lagavulin on at the moment, peaty and smooth at the same time.

18 yo Macallan sitting in my cupboard - my best man bought it for my birthday a while back, I promised him I'd open it with him. He's in Houston though ::(

CaptainFlashheart - Member
Yamazaki 12. Ignore the haterz/purists and get on it!

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Fettercairn..... sweet and fruity ... lovely

Singleton of Glen Ord - Christmas pudding, love it, but only available from the distillery
Oban - light, vanilla, a touch of salty tang, love it too
Auchentoshan - triple distilled, unpeated and very, very smooth (and on the cheap shelf in Asda), guess what - love it
Glenmorangie Quinta Rubain - some time n port wood casks (2 yrs?), nice long chocolatey finish - might be my favourite whisky
Fettercain Fior - very sherry, and yes I do..
and, wait a sec...

ahh yes, Glengoyne (again, cheap shelf in Asda), very barley on the nose, no peat at all. mmm smooth, vanilla, a bit of liquorice in the finish. Not at all bad.

Oban.
Liked it so much, I'm going there on holiday this summer.

Do the distillery tour - free nosing glass, Join the Friends (free) and the tour is free and you get a couple of quid off a bottle.
And see if you can't fix up a tour of [url= http://www.visitcruachan.co.uk/guidedtour/ ]Ben Cruachan power station[/url] while you're about it

I'm tapping Aberlour a'Bunadh because it was on offer in Waitrose 😀

Was on the edradour distillery tour recently.

Their tuscan red wine finished was lovely , in a very sweet aftertaste kind of way

Their chardonay finish , as you would expect left a very dry taste in the back of your mouth , i wasnt expecting it to be that obvious

I left with a port finished cask strength though. Looking forward to cracking that one, the sample was lovely, fierce bit darker and nuttier than the tuscan finish,

Oddest thing ive drunk recently , dewars highlander honey, while the purists will scoff at this "cocktail" it was actually like a honey toddy straight from the bottle , very nice.

Oban

The 14 is my favourite sensibly priced dram

[quote=trail_rat ]dewars highlander honey, while the purists will scoff at this "cocktail" it was actually like a honey toddy straight from the bottle , very nice.That sounds like ideal bivvy material.

Echo the Oban comments, quite a surprise how lovely it was.

Benromach 10-year old - a bit of a let down. Very aromatic in the mouth but a bit of an antiseptic aftertaste.

Dalwhinnie is the one I still reach for - liquid "comfort food".

Got a bottle of Laphroaig that I've had open for a few months now. I think I may have gone off it.

Had a bottle of Glenrothes recently which was nice.

My current favourite is An Cnoc. Wife's currently got a Gordon & Macphail's 8yo Bunnahabhain.

I have a glass of [url= http://www.masterofmalt.com/whiskies/the-glenlivet-nadurra-16-year-old-batch-1007d-whisky/ ]Glenlivet Nadurra[/url] cask strength next to me. very nice.

I'm partial to an Old Pulteney 12, a nice reasonably cheap dram.

Picked up a Glenmorangie Nectar D'Or on offer in sainsburys. Presently surprised. Lovely drop.

Talisker.
Not tried it before.
First taste last night.

Me too. I think I'm rating it. Goes well with lemonade 😀

Met the Glengoyne people at a festival/food fair thing at the weekend. Purchased a bottle of their 12 year old then today found out that my wife won their smell indentification competition they were running. We have therefore won a pair of tickets for a distillery tour followed by a master blender session where you blend your own whisky. Job's a goodun!