Whisky/Whiskey

A new one on my list is Rosebank. Had it for the second time last week in the Grill bar in Aberdeen. Probably my current favourite. I need to get a bottle in. Currently working my way through a bottle of Jura and Caol Ila.
 
Hobbit said:
A new one on my list is Rosebank. Had it for the second time last week in the Grill bar in Aberdeen. Probably my current favourite. I need to get a bottle in. Currently working my way through a bottle of Jura and Caol Ila.
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Not tried Rosebank. Just finished a Jura Superstition this week though. Delicious. Their best IMO. Still got most of a bottle of Bowmore Small Batch. It's decent, but not one to just drink. Needs a bit of chewing! Will probably buy a bottle of something Irish at Dublin Airport next time I'm that way.
 
Rooter said:
What would you suggest a beginner try? I have always said "eww i hate it' but i used to say that about red wine. I probably had something like Bells twenty years ago and that is my experience! I have an awesome hip flask i was bought years ago and have never used it! I want to educate myself and try to like it! If it helps, my wifes Boss is the brother of Lord Magadale of Islay, so some decent stuff is available!
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Spent a month on Islay working, 11 distillery's on the Island, beautiful place and were with the help of the Bowmore Distillery Tour learned to enjoy and appreciatte a drop, before that, like yourself never enjoyed it, get someone to show you how to partake a dram properly and enjoy.
Islay has some lively ones, Bowmore, Bruichladdich, Lagavulin, Laphroaig etc
 
pauldj42 said:
Spent a month on Islay working, 11 distillery's on the Island, beautiful place and were with the help of the Bowmore Distillery Tour learned to enjoy and appreciatte a drop, before that, like yourself never enjoyed it, get someone to show you how to partake a dram properly and enjoy.
Islay has some lively ones, Bowmore, Bruichladdich, Lagavulin, Laphroaig etc
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I find a lot of people struggle with the strength of whisky. And so they add water, but they add too much and wash it out and all you get is brackish water. So if you're adding water, use a straw or a pipette and just ad a couple of drops. Most drams will open up nicely with water. Some change quite considerably.
 
jdpjamesp said:
I find a lot of people struggle with the strength of whisky. And so they add water, but they add too much and wash it out and all you get is brackish water. So if you're adding water, use a straw or a pipette and just ad a couple of drops. Most drams will open up nicely with water. Some change quite considerably.
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The Bowmore staff showed us neat first and then added water to the follow up tasters, surprised at how much it can change the flavours. Also got to try one in the warehouse before it was to be sealed for 25 years, tasted of nothing.
 
pauldj42 said:
Spent a month on Islay working, 11 distillery's on the Island, beautiful place and were with the help of the Bowmore Distillery Tour learned to enjoy and appreciatte a drop, before that, like yourself never enjoyed it, get someone to show you how to partake a dram properly and enjoy.
Islay has some lively ones, Bowmore, Bruichladdich, Lagavulin, Laphroaig etc
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Always wanted to visit there to visit the distilleries and also play some golf. Jealous.
 
Hacker Khan said:
Always wanted to visit there to visit the distilleries and also play some golf. Jealous.
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We have an open invite to the lords holiday home! Just the Mrs couldn't think of anything worse than there! Not her idea of a holiday at all! Shame really, as i would love to go!
 
pauldj42 said:
The Bowmore staff showed us neat first and then added water to the follow up tasters, surprised at how much it can change the flavours. Also got to try one in the warehouse before it was to be sealed for 25 years, tasted of nothing.
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Some new make is really nice. Glen Moray Peated new make is the mutts... but at 69% it'll blow your socks off.
 
Rooter said:
We have an open invite to the lords holiday home! Just the Mrs couldn't think of anything worse than there! Not her idea of a holiday at all! Shame really, as i would love to go!
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If you've got kids and you like beaches it's well worth it, if you go in the summer and get the weather there are miles and miles of beautiful beaches, full of seals and wildlife, no night life only bars and restaraunts. Well worth visiting at least once in your life.
Tell the Lord I'm your brother😃
 
pauldj42 said:
If you've got kids and you like beaches it's well worth it, if you go in the summer and get the weather there are miles and miles of beautiful beaches, full of seals and wildlife, no night life only bars and restaraunts. Well worth visiting at least once in your life.
Tell the Lord I'm your brother😃
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I know that! The mrs hears Scottish island and thinks cold and wet and miserable.. no idea where she has built her assumption from!
 
I prefer East Coast whisky to West coast.
The West coast whisky is too smoky for me but I know a lot of guys who love it.
Mcallans is number 1.

I drink Johnny Walker black in the bars.

I've done the tour at the Queens distillery at Balmoral,Lochnagar is very tasty but you will very rarely see it in the UK as most of it is exported to Japan.I have never seen it in the duty free shops at airports either.
 
The best whisky I have ever tasted was a blended Royal Salute from Chivas Regal. I was given a bottle as a gift some years ago and before this my favourites had always been single malts always thinking they were better than blends. At over £100 a bottle, it is a taste I will have to savour.
 
Fyldewhite said:
This has been done before on here but my response to "I don't like whisky" is always "you haven't tried enough then, keep going, there's one for everyone".

Personally, smoky, peaty are my favourites. Bunnahabhain, Bruichladdich, Bowmore, Talisker, Lagavulin, Jura.....the list goes on. Usually have about 3 or 4 on the go but don't actually drink a lot of it, just like the choice when I do. Once had a go on a 40 year old Bunnahabhain.....expensive....but nice.....worth every penny!
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Add me to that team. Laphroaig, Caol Ila, Smokehead (only ever saw that at the airport), Bowmore and Ardbeg are the ones I tend to gravitate to. Friend has a friend who works at the House of Commons and bought me a Bowmore small batch matured in a bourbon cask on a recommendation from Tessa Jowell; I might not agree with her politics but I can't fault her taste in malt whisky. Currently enjoying a Laphroaig PX cask, finished in a Pedro Ximinez sherry cask.
 
Not too keen on the iodine or medicinal nose and flavour of the Islay malts that I have tried.

I prefer the East coast or Speyside malts, with my favourites Glenfarclas and Glenmorangie.
 
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