Show us your whisky! Vol 2

[hoegaardenruls]

This would be a bit of background, but Antiquary is a pretty established blend, that I'd been used to seeing in pubs around Edinburgh in particular..

https://scotchwhisky.com/whiskypedia/2305/the-anti...

A quick search shows that it is still sold as a 35yr old (see Master of Malt), although the 12 is the standard bottling - maybe more value to a collector due to the royal angle?

[NRS]

hoegaardenruls said:

This would be a bit of background, but Antiquary is a pretty established blend, that I'd been used to seeing in pubs around Edinburgh in particular..

https://scotchwhisky.com/whiskypedia/2305/the-anti...

A quick search shows that it is still sold as a 35yr old (see Master of Malt), although the 12 is the standard bottling - maybe more value to a collector due to the royal angle?

The modern 35yo wasn't sold out - it's a limited edition with 800 bottles I think. Around £250. With that bottle though, it means the whisky is from 1942 or older. If that was a named single malt it'd be into 4 figures for the most part. Not much clue about old blends, but it certainly is becoming popular to open old blends to drink whisky from another era as single malt is just so expensive now. It "must" be in the several hundred pounds + category.

Picked these up today! Seems there was only a couple for the country, so lucky to have actually got them.

[Joat]

Bruichladdich Renaissance tonight.

[HarryW]

Cracked the HP Dragon Legend last night, pretty decent stuff for a NAS, definitely smokier than the usual HP also has lovely sweet spice from the sherry casking too. All in all a nice drop of everyday whisky.

[Bert Cheese]

The latest arrivals to bolster my Islay stocks.
A couple of sort of limited bottlings from Laphroaig, and an independent sherried Bruichladdich.

[NRS]

Bert Cheese said:

The latest arrivals to bolster my Islay stocks.
A couple of sort of limited bottlings from Laphroaig, and an independent sherried Bruichladdich.

That Bruichladdich looks tasty!

Anyone know how to get bottles sent outside Germany? There's a bottle in a store I am interested there, but they don't ship outside Germany. Not sure if it is to do with their general rules, as no/ very few companies allow shipping outside of Germany?

[Joat]

NRS said:

That Bruichladdich looks tasty!

+1 I'll swap you my bottle for it

[The_Doc]

one of my juniors gave me this and I'm just getting to it now.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B0046XWP...

cripes, special occasions only then !

[NRS]

Real price is actually around £90. Those Amazon prices are just silly asking prices.

[The_Doc]

OK, back on the menu for weekend snifters then.

Edited by The_Doc on Tuesday 12th September 23:09

[BubblesNW]

NRS said:

BubblesNW said:

krallicious said:

Who bottled it? Who was the distiller?
Would make life a bit easier if you can find out.

It was in South Queensferry but I will find out as much as I can. Is Antiquary a specific blend or something generic? Thanks in advance.

As mentioned it helps with pictures! Antiquary is owned by the Tomatin distillery company. Could be difficult to get info if it is so old as blends are a lot less documented online in my limited experience of them.

Edited by NRS on Tuesday 5th September 00:15

OK so I visited yesterday and took some pictures. It appears to have been something to do with Croda Chemical company who produced the ink and wax on the packaging. It's not 35 year old whisky but is now a 40 year old bottle.

It appears to have been part of a celebratory pack which included soap and a soap dish.









What are your thoughts on it?

[krallicious]

Sounds interesting although technically not a whisky as it is bottled below 40%. I would have thought it is a blend containing one, or some, 25yo whiskies going from the dates.

I'll have to have a little look around to see if I can be somewhat more helpful.

Back to drinking. I finished this last night



Lovely and still resonable priced for a Japanese whisky.

[NRS]

Speaking about Japanese whisky... I had these yesterday. They went very nicely with coke and some ice...

[EJH]

NRS said:

Speaking about Japanese whisky... I had these yesterday. They went very nicely with coke and some ice...

Full fat coke? That hides so much of the sweetness; much better with Diet Coke and some lemon.





<<Runs, hides and hopes no one thinks I'm serious>>

[jammy-git]

I imagine NRS means cocaine and diamonds.

[Joat]

Middleton Very Rare 2007

[chilistrucker]

NRS said:

Speaking about Japanese whisky... I had these yesterday. They went very nicely with coke and some ice...

That looks a very well stocked bar.
Where were you?

[Mr Trophy]

chilistrucker said:

NRS said:

Speaking about Japanese whisky... I had these yesterday. They went very nicely with coke and some ice...

That looks a very well stocked bar.
Where were you?

Heaven

[jammy-git]

Joat said:

Middleton Very Rare 2007

How was it?

[NRS]

Mr Trophy said:

chilistrucker said:

NRS said:

Speaking about Japanese whisky... I had these yesterday. They went very nicely with coke and some ice...

That looks a very well stocked bar.
Where were you?

Heaven

In Oslo. Ironically in one of the places with very expensive alcohol generally these were very cheap relatively. I think those bottles sell for around £2500-3000 each these days, this was only £13 or so per drink, which is approximately £530 or so per bottle equivalent. First time trying single cask Hanyu. We should also be getting a single cask released here sometime the end of this year/ start of next year. I'll need to head back to that pub, they also had another card, plus at least 1 Karuizawa and a single cask Nikka for decent (relatively) prices. In addition some of the rare Scottish stuff was pretty cheap too.