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Mine, and one that I've only just discovered over the last year, is Lagavulin; a 16 year old single malt from Islay.
There are so many to choose from though - any recommendations?
Syzygy
Single Malt: Balvenie 10 or 12
Irish: Jameson
Bourbon: Knob Creek, Jack
use ice sparingly, if at all.
The only problem I took it to a party and forgot to take a peek at the label, so all though Id buy it again I cant find it anywhere...
I bought from a supermarket so no one there knows what Im talking about.
Now thats a definition of frustration
Dalwhinnie is a great single malt. The tour guide for the distillery is completely a mental rubicund alchoholic. This might be due to The distillery being situated in the highlands and is buried in snow for much of the winter.
And nice to see that Duckhunter got in quick with the correct spelling of whiskey ...
BTW ..please dont put things in your whiskey ..even water ..its like putting on sunglasses to look at Van Gogh paintings ...
I'd be kicked into touch here if I mentioned bourbon?
Bourbon's welcome; please do share...
As for water in your whisky, well, that's a matter of opinion & personal preference. It is generally recommended that should you wish to, just a small amount of spring water is sufficient.
the correct spelling of whiskey...
My understanding is that the Scots, Canadians & Japanese have whisky, the Irish & Americans have whiskey, although there are no hard and fast rules these days...
Syzygy
[edited by: Syzygy at 7:29 pm (utc) on Nov. 27, 2004]
Anyway, on the way out, we were looking at the glass case where they put the really good stuff - the expensive tequilas and whiskeys. It's something I would love to try a sip of, but due to the fact that I generally hate the taste of alcohol and am not a millionaire, I may never try. To finish up my story, I said that some of the names looked familiar from both the old San Francisco Bay Guardian message boards (R.I.P.) and from a thread I recall from here. I didn't read Foo at all yesterday, so imagine my surprise to see the discussion come up again today. Weirdness.
An aside, there was a woman handing out samples of Bushmill's Irish Cream and it was much tastier and smoother than Bailey's and Carolan's. That's my kind of drink - something that tastes like candy or chocolate.
A 30 year old bottle of Rosebank (Lowland) has been one of my recent favorites. Highly recommended if you can find it.
...if you can find it! The chance would be a fine thing; according to Jim Murray's Whisky Bible the distillery, est'b.1840, closed in 1993. Thus a very rare treat indeed.
Any chance you can sticky me a wee dram..?
Oh, go on...please..;-)
Syzygy
TJ
Any chance you can sticky me a wee dram..?If only it were that simple ;)
I found a Japanese department store with an incredible selection of our single malt friends, Rosebank included. They have a tasting area where I can sample incredible bottles which I could never afford...50 year old bottles, limited rare vintage runs (1 cask ever made)... It's a great place.
shigamoto:- Good choice! Laphroaig is Scottish though, not Irish; I can understand the mix up, it's easily done. It's also from the Isle of Islay, like my Lagavulin. Must admit that I do like 'La-froig', but is a wee bit too peaty for me. In return, if you love 'La-froig', you'll love 'La-ga-voo-lin'. Do give it a try if you haven't already... & please do excuse my possibly patronising phonetics.
Interesting choices all. I intend to keep a record of all the recommendations here - particularly as I'm off to Scotland to see the folks for Christmas. I may well be in a pub over that period and saying to the bar staff, "Let me try one of those malts - it was suggested to me by someone in Foo..."
Please do keep them coming...
Syzygy
A drop helps bring out the nose of a fine whiskey. I personally prefer mine neat and slightly warmed by the hand though.
Knob Creek for when I'm feeling rougish and The Macallan for when I'm in need of a spiritual experience.
Has anyone tried those flavoured vodka's? Vanillia, toffee etc.
The Macallan for when I'm in need of a spiritual experience.
Lol.
Is that spiritual as in "I'm in the need for lots of whisky..."? Or spiritual in the sense of an almost religious experience...?
Btw: that's actually my younger brother's favourite whisky.
Syzygy
Has anyone tried those flavoured vodka's? Vanillia, toffee etc.
Vanilla Twist is good with Pepsi. Citrus is good with limeade.
I'm wondering if they haven't set up a special factory just to pump out the 10 year old stuff in volume. The quality really pales in comparison...
Even the wine growers of France have caught on ..
eg: Rose wine that sells at $4.oo per bottle in the South of France ..the same bottle ..same domaine $350.oo in Japan ..One Japanese company has even bought it's own domaine near "le Luc" in the Var just to produce for your market ..What it sells at $600.oo per bottle in Japan previously sold at $12.oo per bottle in the Var under the previous owners ..
Bill....or whoever .ever want to go in for importing ..let me know via sticky ..have lots of capacity..
No water in whiskey is simple ..the individual taste of each whiskey and even the Scots stuff ( actually I have a good friend who was a UK Customs Distillery Inspector..based out of "the Black Isle" ...I've drunk some nice Scots stuff with him ) ..is based upon the water from the stream that supplies the distillery ..
Each stream having it's own individual tasting water ..
So the only water you could actually put with any whiskey without altering it's taste ..would be that which comes from its own stream ( and in the case of the older whiskey's the water taste is unlikely to be tha same now as it was at the time of the whiskey's creation ) ..or Distilled ..totally nuetral taste water
..all bottled "mineral" water has it's own taste ...
As the reviewer from Whisky magazine said - it's finish was like:
Sitting in a leather armchair, reading Masefield, before a log fire, listening to the tide with a whiff of brine under the weather-warped door....
I'm sure it's a lie, but then I just read some reviews of fancy shmancy wine and they honestly think that the flavor of pencil shavings/graphite is something good in wine. Perhaps that's why I can't appreciate wine.
Similar to "art critics" on art ..you know what you like ..if if has to be explained to you so as to get you to like it ..then ut's hype ..
Good wine is relative to your personal taste ...Given what you appear to like ..try some of the "en paille" ...whites ...higher tenure "en sucre" ..
Reds ..stay off the Bordeau...go more for Borgeuil..
Rose ..light coloured Bandols ..The secret of choosing a good rose is to get one from a domaine that has the sunn on the vines all day long ..ie: south facing Vignobles ..after that it's down to the skill of the viticulteur..but no-one can make good rose with grapes that face north ..
I liked my wine with a screw-off cap
Around here (Marlborough, New Zealand) it's getting hard to find local wine that isn't in a screwtop. I was at St Clair's tasting room for a lunch at the weekend anbd they told me they ran out of screwcap wine and had to use wine bottled with corks for the UK market. There was a round of complaints and they were pleased to get back to screwtops.
[screwcap.co.nz...]
