Whisky / Whiskey
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@catogrande said in Whisky / Whiskey:
@mariner4life Are you drinking it neat? I ask as I used to drink my scotch that way but was converted to adding just a tiny drop of water. It's fascinating to compare the stuff neat and then with a splash. Makes a significant difference.
ice. which, in 32 degree temps, quickly becomes that splash of water we are talking about.
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@majorrage said in Whisky / Whiskey:
Just completed a few days in Scotland with my family and old man whose a whisky nut.
Two full days in Islay. Outstanding time and here’s my purse from the trip:
That looks like a load of shite. I'll take it off your hands for a 20.
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@crucial said in Whisky / Whiskey:
@majorrage said in Whisky / Whiskey:
Just completed a few days in Scotland with my family and old man whose a whisky nut.
Two full days in Islay. Outstanding time and here’s my purse from the trip:
That looks like a load of shite. I'll take it off your hands for a 20.
Philistine.
All chosen after visits from each distillery.
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@majorrage said in Whisky / Whiskey:
@crucial said in Whisky / Whiskey:
@majorrage said in Whisky / Whiskey:
Just completed a few days in Scotland with my family and old man whose a whisky nut.
Two full days in Islay. Outstanding time and here’s my purse from the trip:
That looks like a load of shite. I'll take it off your hands for a 20.
Philistine.
All chosen after visits from each distillery.
- Best offer.
I will find a way of disposal.
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@MajorRage
Just spent this Friday evening at a bar with a little over 200 wikkies.. (down to about 140 if you ignore the bourbons and irish... which you should, and I did)- tried that Kilchoman you've got there... yeah, tasty. All the others... tried them before, and yep, that's a fucking nice little island I need to visit.
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@kruse said in Whisky / Whiskey:
@MajorRage
Just spent this Friday evening at a bar with a little over 200 wikkies.. (down to about 140 if you ignore the bourbons and irish... which you should, and I did)- tried that Kilchoman you've got there... yeah, tasty. All the others... tried them before, and yep, that's a fucking nice little island I need to visit.
Milroys in Greek Street? That place is a wallet killer.
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@crucial said in Whisky / Whiskey:
@kruse said in Whisky / Whiskey:
@MajorRage
Just spent this Friday evening at a bar with a little over 200 wikkies.. (down to about 140 if you ignore the bourbons and irish... which you should, and I did)- tried that Kilchoman you've got there... yeah, tasty. All the others... tried them before, and yep, that's a fucking nice little island I need to visit.
Milroys in Greek Street? That place is a wallet killer.
Lord Wargrave - Marylebone area
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@kruse said in Whisky / Whiskey:
@crucial said in Whisky / Whiskey:
@kruse said in Whisky / Whiskey:
@MajorRage
Just spent this Friday evening at a bar with a little over 200 wikkies.. (down to about 140 if you ignore the bourbons and irish... which you should, and I did)- tried that Kilchoman you've got there... yeah, tasty. All the others... tried them before, and yep, that's a fucking nice little island I need to visit.
Milroys in Greek Street? That place is a wallet killer.
Lord Wargrave - Marylebone area
Cool, must try it.
Ever been to Milroys? There's a bar in the shop upstairs the if you go downstairs theres a 'hidden bar' behind the secret bookcase door.
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@crucial said in Whisky / Whiskey:
@kruse said in Whisky / Whiskey:
@crucial said in Whisky / Whiskey:
@kruse said in Whisky / Whiskey:
@MajorRage
Just spent this Friday evening at a bar with a little over 200 wikkies.. (down to about 140 if you ignore the bourbons and irish... which you should, and I did)- tried that Kilchoman you've got there... yeah, tasty. All the others... tried them before, and yep, that's a fucking nice little island I need to visit.
Milroys in Greek Street? That place is a wallet killer.
Lord Wargrave - Marylebone area
Cool, must try it.
Ever been to Milroys? There's a bar in the shop upstairs the if you go downstairs theres a 'hidden bar' behind the secret bookcase door.
Nope - never been.
This discussion reminded me I am criminally negligent in not joining the Scotch Malt Whisky Society - considering they have a venue pretty much around the corner from me... with "the world’s largest collection of single cask whiskies" -
so you buy this; it sits on a shelf for people to go wow you are so rich, or do you drink it?
What if you choose the former then one day knock it off the shelf, it smashes...sure you get insurance but you never got to taste....
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-45731647
Bottle of whisky sold for world record £848,000
The world's most expensive bottle of whisky has been sold for £848,000 at auction in Edinburgh.
The Macallan Valerio Adami 1926 60-year-old went under the hammer at Bonhams Whisky Sale.
The whisky, which was in a vat for 60 years from 1926 then bottled, fetched £700,000 plus a £148,000 sales premium.
Experts describe it as the holy grail of whiskies, because of the combination of its rarity, vintage and unique artwork.
Another bottle of The Macallan Valerio Adami 1926 was sold at Bonhams Hong Kong in May this year for a then world record £814,081 (HK$8,636,250).
Macallan commissioned pop artists Peter Blake and Valerio Adami to design labels for a limited edition of 24 bottles -12 Adami and 12 of Blake.
The latest bottle to be sold came in a specially-commissioned cabinet, or tantalus. Its previous owner bought it direct from the Macallan distillery for an undisclosed sum in 1994.
Although 12 bottles of The Macallan Valerio Adami 1926 were produced, it is not known how many of them still exist.
One is said to have been destroyed in an earthquake in Japan in 2011, and it is believed at least one of them has been opened and consumed.
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@taniwharugby said in Whisky / Whiskey:
so you buy this; it sits on a shelf for people to go wow you are so rich, or do you drink it?
What if you choose the former then one day knock it off the shelf, it smashes...sure you get insurance but you never got to taste....
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-45731647
Bottle of whisky sold for world record £848,000
The world's most expensive bottle of whisky has been sold for £848,000 at auction in Edinburgh.
The Macallan Valerio Adami 1926 60-year-old went under the hammer at Bonhams Whisky Sale.
The whisky, which was in a vat for 60 years from 1926 then bottled, fetched £700,000 plus a £148,000 sales premium.
Experts describe it as the holy grail of whiskies, because of the combination of its rarity, vintage and unique artwork.
Another bottle of The Macallan Valerio Adami 1926 was sold at Bonhams Hong Kong in May this year for a then world record £814,081 (HK$8,636,250).
Macallan commissioned pop artists Peter Blake and Valerio Adami to design labels for a limited edition of 24 bottles -12 Adami and 12 of Blake.
The latest bottle to be sold came in a specially-commissioned cabinet, or tantalus. Its previous owner bought it direct from the Macallan distillery for an undisclosed sum in 1994.
Although 12 bottles of The Macallan Valerio Adami 1926 were produced, it is not known how many of them still exist.
One is said to have been destroyed in an earthquake in Japan in 2011, and it is believed at least one of them has been opened and consumed.
If I can afford $1.6m NZD on a drink, I am damn well drinking it. May wait for an event but it's getting polished either way
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@taniwharugby said in Whisky / Whiskey:
Experts describe it as the holy grail of whiskies, because of the combination of its rarity, vintage and unique artwork.
I'd prefer the holy grail of whiskies to be based on taste...
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If in Inverness for the night I can recommend this place https://www.themaltroom.co.uk/ for a tipple or two. The bar staff were obviously passionate about their offerings and hit the nail on the head with a recommendation for me.
With reference to the post above they were saying just how silly the collecting/investing side of things is getting with distilleries hardly even caring what they are bottling as 'special' because it is simply the rarity/bottle/label that counts and people are lining up to pay stupid money for something they never even taste.As a side note, just down the road is the Black Isle Bar. Decent beer (their own organic plus others), great pizzas and cheap rooms above the bar so you don't have to stumble far afterwards.
As far as I could tell, apart from these two places there was no other point in going to Inverness.
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@kruse said in Whisky / Whiskey:
@MajorRage
Just spent this Friday evening at a bar with a little over 200 wikkies.. (down to about 140 if you ignore the bourbons and irish... which you should, and I did)- tried that Kilchoman you've got there... yeah, tasty. All the others... tried them before, and yep, that's a fucking nice little island I need to visit.
Just FYI, there’s a curry house in Napier that hosts a Whiskey Club. They’ve got about 400 available, 300 of them single malts / single grains, 60-odd blended and the rest American and Irish. Most of the good ones are in the $15-30 range for a dram. Several are in the hundreds though.
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@hooroo said in Whisky / Whiskey:
@taniwharugby said in Whisky / Whiskey:
so you buy this; it sits on a shelf for people to go wow you are so rich, or do you drink it?
What if you choose the former then one day knock it off the shelf, it smashes...sure you get insurance but you never got to taste....
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-45731647
Bottle of whisky sold for world record £848,000
The world's most expensive bottle of whisky has been sold for £848,000 at auction in Edinburgh.
The Macallan Valerio Adami 1926 60-year-old went under the hammer at Bonhams Whisky Sale.
The whisky, which was in a vat for 60 years from 1926 then bottled, fetched £700,000 plus a £148,000 sales premium.
Experts describe it as the holy grail of whiskies, because of the combination of its rarity, vintage and unique artwork.
Another bottle of The Macallan Valerio Adami 1926 was sold at Bonhams Hong Kong in May this year for a then world record £814,081 (HK$8,636,250).
Macallan commissioned pop artists Peter Blake and Valerio Adami to design labels for a limited edition of 24 bottles -12 Adami and 12 of Blake.
The latest bottle to be sold came in a specially-commissioned cabinet, or tantalus. Its previous owner bought it direct from the Macallan distillery for an undisclosed sum in 1994.
Although 12 bottles of The Macallan Valerio Adami 1926 were produced, it is not known how many of them still exist.
One is said to have been destroyed in an earthquake in Japan in 2011, and it is believed at least one of them has been opened and consumed.
If I can afford $1.6m NZD on a drink, I am damn well drinking it. May wait for an event but it's getting polished either way
Right on!
Then decant a bottle of Johnnie Walker Red Label back into the old bottle and sit it on the shelf for people to go "Wow you are so rich....".
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Bump. Currently working my way through a bottle of Bulleit Bourbon Frontier Whiskey. Better than I thought it would be: spicy and light. Good for the price.
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@antipodean said in Whisky / Whiskey:
Bump. Currently working my way through a bottle of Bulleit Bourbon Frontier Whiskey. Better than I thought it would be: spicy and light. Good for the price.
Yum, I love bourbon (Not neat or only with ice) but I plays havoc with me the next day.
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@Hooroo Never got into Bourbon, always tastes a little sweet to me. Maybe because I've only tasted the usual suspects though?
