Whisky / Whiskey
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@Smudge said in Whisky / Whiskey:
@Kiwiwomble said in Whisky / Whiskey:
@smudge that would work, would have been happy with 2-4 bottles each
....now thinking about a "fern" whiskey barrel
Update on this. We've paid for the barrel and have the filling ceremony in June.
Further update: filling ceremony was yesterday. Gorgeous day at Cardrona, with plenty of snow around, but with a clear blue sky above. They look after you very well - we were drinking Veuve Clicquot as we chatted and caught up with people, and had a quick rundown on the distillery's history. We then wandered through the distillery on a tour, before getting to the filling bit. As I was the one who corralled my mates into doing it, they decided I was the one who was filling the cask. Took about 2 minutes to fill the 230L barrel and luckily I wasn't one of the people who kept the tap on for too long and sprayed the fresh product everywhere, which has happened in the past apparently.
After that, we rolled the barrel out through to their storage hall, then went back into the main restaurant/bar where they take you to a separate room for a a rolling hour or so of food, some of their products (whisky, vodka, gin and liqueurs) and more wine. All up about 3 hours, and nice to have some pomp and ceremony above just buying into the cask.
Shit I feel average today.
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Got some of this for my birthday, is a liquer rather than actual whiskey, surprisngly good, very aromatic.
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Wife got given a bottle of Bladnoch Samsara by a client. So I'm drinking it.
Isn't aged very long (8 years) but apparently in bourbon and then wine oak casks.
Quite fragrant. Reminds me of a mix of pepper and oranges. As in spicy citrus.
Clearly I'm a bit shit at describing whisky. Much like my ability to describe wine. I'll keep drinking it
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Upvote for tenacity. No one likes a quitter
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@antipodean well your descriptions are better than what I have.
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@antipodean said in Whisky / Whiskey:
I'll keep drinking it
Really that's the important part of any review.
'Floral notes of heather wafting across the burn on a mid-summers evening, mixing with the peat smoke from the cottage where old Nan boils the kettle for her evening cup of tea' is all very evocative but it doesn't tell you if it tastes like ambrosia or the old socks Nan has also had boiling away over the fire.
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@dogmeat said in Whisky / Whiskey:
@antipodean said in Whisky / Whiskey:
I'll keep drinking it
Really that's the important part of any review.
'Floral notes of heather wafting across the burn on a mid-summers evening, mixing with the peat smoke from the cottage where old Nan boils the kettle for her evening cup of tea' is all very evocative but it doesn't tell you if it tastes like ambrosia or the old socks Nan has also had boiling away over the fire.
Not poetic enough...
"Deep golden colour. Aromas of rich dark currants, nectarine skins, burnt toffee, but lots of fragrant tobacco, rich soil, white flowers, smashed minerals and metal. Medium-bodied and saucy but racy acidity stabilises the whisky nicely with the sharpness of the peat. Deep caramel and a hint of ripe cherries, laden with mocha, loamy soil, charred herbs, pencil shavings, roasted hazelnut. Dense like characters that opens up with a a 5ml drop of water, however it is drinkable straight once you expose it to the earth’s atmosphere."
Though I much prefer:
"Tastes of bruised fruit, with a horrible finish that gums up the palate like creosote in a chimney".
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but...but - where's Nan?!
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@dogmeat said in Whisky / Whiskey:
but...but - where's Nan?!
Out the back straining the whiskey through her bloomers.
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@Victor-Meldrew too verbose. Lost you a nectarine skins.
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Mentioned in the beer thread, last weekend, it was the Fèis Ìle - The Islay Whisky Show in Melbourne. My mate and I attended and wow, what an amazing event. All Whiskies from Islay or Coal Isla with the odd one from further away.
15 or 16 stands with a minimum of 3 whiskies for tasting but often 4 or more. The best thing was, some whiskies being offered for tasting were not even available commercially any longer and were expensive on the whisky market.
All tasting pours were a minimum of 15ml but some were heavier handed so we figured we tasted nearly 40 on the day at 15ml but most were cask strength so we were pretty toasted by the end of it.
On the Friday at my mates place, to warm up but not to spoil our palate we had a rye and bourbon night.
Then on Monday arvo before I drove back to Sydney on Tuesday, we went quality over quantity.
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To add to the above, at the Islay Whisky Show, they had a rare whisky bar at the end so we had to have a couple of pours and this whisky was simply amazing. Again, not for sale commercially but can be brought on the very active whisky market and auctions.
There was also a shop and well, given it's my birthday next weekend, I had to spoil myself so dropped a bit on this so cannot wait to taste.
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Looks amazing. So many Isla whiskies that I’ve never even heard of. Were they all very peaty?
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so, whilst looking for a present for the brother in laws 50th found this
"A robust fruity & caramel Australian Single Malt Whisky at 58% alc/vol, matured in ex-Port/Tawny casks"
sounds delicious and i know he'd save some for the next time we were in town, ended up going with something else....i was of course disappointed...until a bottle arrived in the post, apparently i wasn;t subtle about wanting to try it so Mrs Womble got one for me....it does not disappoint !
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@Crucial said in Whisky / Whiskey:
@RoninWC looks awesome. I would have been on the floor after way less than you tried.
Just to be pedantic Caol Isla is on Islay.
Yes, I do understand that, Caol Ila is a distillery on Islay and one of my favourites as I now have a few. My poor choice of wording.
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@Catogrande said in Whisky / Whiskey:
Looks amazing. So many Isla whiskies that I’ve never even heard of. Were they all very peaty?
Yes, most of them were but there were enough that were low peat that you could still enjoy the tastings without feeling like you've eaten your way out of a peat bog.
Generally speaking, Caol Ila make the lightest in terms of peat in their whiskies and tend to use ex-sherry casks really well.
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@RoninWC damn, you play in a different league haha
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@taniwharugby said in Whisky / Whiskey:
@RoninWC damn, you play in a different league haha
You’re right. If I’d undertaken that mammoth tasting I couldn’t look at another scotch for a good five years or more 🤮
