Show us your whisky! Vol 2

[vixen1700]

jammy-git said:

I’m going through Gatwick in a week - anyone know of anything with looking at in duty free at the moment?

The peated Balvenie.

[Bobberoo99]

vixen1700 said:

jammy-git said:

I’m going through Gatwick in a week - anyone know of anything with looking at in duty free at the moment?

The peated Balvenie.

GIT!!!! I'd literally kill for a bottle of that!!!

[vixen1700]

Bobberoo99 said:

GIT!!!! I'd literally kill for a bottle of that!!!

Wish I'd brought a bottle back from my last holiday. Delicious.

[jammy-git]

Thanks. Just looked at a review and will definitely pick up a bottle or two. If anyone wants me to pick a bottle up for them too just let me know.

[Bert Cheese]

Was anyone hereabouts lucky enough to secure a bottle of the long awaited Daftmill inaugural release?
No...me neither but a friend who has followed their progress since inception 12 long years ago has finally been rewarded for his patience it seems...

I do suspect he may not be opening it any time soon though

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A little bit of background information can be found here: https://scotchwhisky.com/magazine/latest-news/1879...

Edited by Bert Cheese on Friday 8th June 12:14

[vixen1700]

A Whiskybroker post popped up on my Facebook page this evening on the tube journey home.

Arbelour 25 year old limited to 60 bottles for £75.

Sold out by the time I got home.

[Mr Trophy]

vixen1700 said:

A Whiskybroker post popped up on my Facebook page this evening on the tube journey home.

Arbelour 25 year old limited to 60 bottles for £75.

Sold out by the time I got home.

Shame that’s a very good price!

[Blown2CV]

vixen1700 said:

A Whiskybroker post popped up on my Facebook page this evening on the tube journey home.

Arbelour 25 year old limited to 60 bottles for £75.

Sold out by the time I got home.

they have Wi-Fi on the underground now! Admittedly you'd have to step off the train to use it... unless you were quick whilst stopped in a station!

[vixen1700]

Blown2CV said:

they have Wi-Fi on the underground now! Admittedly you'd have to step off the train to use it... unless you were quick whilst stopped in a station!

No, it was above ground. Stratford on the Jubilee Line.

[pmanson]

LeighW said:

This arrived yesterday; my fourth bottle and the last one I can find anywhere online. It's just so delicious with beautiful confectionary notes, guess I have a sweet tooth!

This is my favourite! Waiting for Podie to deliver mine

[Blown2CV]

vixen1700 said:

Blown2CV said:

they have Wi-Fi on the underground now! Admittedly you'd have to step off the train to use it... unless you were quick whilst stopped in a station!

No, it was above ground. Stratford on the Jubilee Line.

ok well they have a mobile network above ground

[crmcatee]

Came back from the Feis Ile with a smaller haul than I normally do.

Some great masterclasses and tastings along the way by the likes of SMWS, Bruichladdich (was there ever a bad one), Lagavulin and Bowmore.

Between the four of us, this was our midweek haul before some of them had to depart the island.



Personally I got myself :

Couple of bottles of Lagavulin Feis Ile - 18 year old
Couple of bottles of Bruichladdich Feis Ile 'The Heretic' 17 year old
Couple of bottles of Laphroaig Cairdeas Fino finish.
Couple of bottles of Bowmores Feis Ile 2018.
Couple of bottles of SMWS 29.244
Bottle of Jura 'The Paps'
Bottle of Bruichladdich 1990 / 27 HB. Having sampled it thanks to Mary at the shop; that woman will be the ruin of me.
Bottle of Laphroaig Cask Strength 10 year old.
A bottle of Botanist Gin.
A bottle of Lussa Gin

I already had a couple of bottles of the Committee release of Ardbegs Grooves so didn't bother with the general release (although, sadly the general release is no Alligator)

All in all, quite a good haul.

To top it all; I visited my cask at Bruichladdich; all is well with it and probably 4 more years until I decide what to do with it.

Oh also forgot - I also came home with samples of all the drams that were tasted at the Bruichladdich Masterclass. The quadruple distilled Octomore at 70% was as smooth as a smooth thing.
The masterclass was streamed live - https://youtu.be/wYaU0InUt3A

Edited by crmcatee on Saturday 9th June 18:51

[NRS]

Nice set of bottles there! Is it the Bowmore single cask, or the batch release that you got? I saw some people were queuing the day before for some of the bottles. And it seems a lot of people might have missed out on the Ardbeg Single Cask since they would have got the other Ardbeg bottles before. From the videos/ pics I saw looked a great event, with a lot of rare sun!

Bert Cheese said:

Was anyone hereabouts lucky enough to secure a bottle of the long awaited Daftmill inaugural release?
No...me neither but a friend who has followed their progress since inception 12 long years ago has finally been rewarded for his patience it seems...

I do suspect he may not be opening it any time soon though

A little bit of background information can be found here: https://scotchwhisky.com/magazine/latest-news/1879...

Edited by Bert Cheese on Friday 8th June 12:14

Nope, entered a while back but didn't even get a "sorry, unlucky mate" email!

Mr Trophy said:

vixen1700 said:

A Whiskybroker post popped up on my Facebook page this evening on the tube journey home.

Arbelour 25 year old limited to 60 bottles for £75.

Sold out by the time I got home.

Shame that’s a very good price!

Anything like that, or any bottle they have with a dark sherry colour is gone very quickly.

[jammy-git]

vixen1700 said:

jammy-git said:

I’m going through Gatwick in a week - anyone know of anything with looking at in duty free at the moment?

The peated Balvenie.

This was lovely! Two bottles bought to be picked up on the way back through.

[vixen1700]

jammy-git said:

This was lovely! Two bottles bought to be picked up on the way back through.

[crmcatee]

NRS said:

Nice set of bottles there! Is it the Bowmore single cask, or the batch release that you got? I saw some people were queuing the day before for some of the bottles. And it seems a lot of people might have missed out on the Ardbeg Single Cask since they would have got the other Ardbeg bottles before. From the videos/ pics I saw looked a great event, with a lot of rare sun!.

They're the batch release. Folk were queuing for the single cask from 4pm the previous day to get a Willy Wonka golden ticket at 11am the next day. Once folk got their ticket (having paid £400), they were changing hands in the queue for £800. Crazy.

The whole week was gorgeous, this year we didn't do Kilchoman/Bunnahabhain so had time to explore some more of the island. I hear that Bunnahabhain is getting refurbed - i.e., partially knocked down and then rebuilt, which if you ask me is long long overdue. Even a coat of paint would help the place look more attractive.

[Bert Cheese]

More recent arrivals from Whisky Broker...a couple more Sherry jobs from Tomintoul and Craigellachie respectively and something a little different in the form of an 8 y/o Ardmore aged in an ex-Islay (Laphroaig apparently) cask...should be interesting at 64.2% too.

I've also finally found time in between painting walls and playing with ring mains etc to open my recently acquired Kilchoman Loch Gorm and very nice it too...all these recent Sherried malts have got me slightly worried though, am I betraying the heavily peated Ardbegs and Laphroaigs that I started my whisky journey on a few short years ago?

[NRS]

You'll probably come back to them in the future if it helps,

I started with big sherry bomb whiskies, then moved into the big peated ones, and then moved onto the bigger flavour bourbon ones. Of course mixing a bit, but just went through some different phases as to what was preferred!

Trying this 1956 18yo Highland Park tonight. Bought a few cl off a friend. Nose is lovely - grapefruits, red apples, grassy, honey and a bit vegital too. However the taste is a bit flat, but with a reasonable finish. Not sure if it is the release in general, or the particular bottle.

https://www.whiskybase.com/whiskies/whisky/81686/h...

[Bert Cheese]

NRS said:

You'll probably come back to them in the future if it helps,

I started with big sherry bomb whiskies, then moved into the big peated ones, and then moved onto the bigger flavour bourbon ones. Of course mixing a bit, but just went through some different phases as to what was preferred!

Trying this 1956 18yo Highland Park tonight. Bought a few cl off a friend. Nose is lovely - grapefruits, red apples, grassy, honey and a bit vegital too. However the taste is a bit flat, but with a reasonable finish. Not sure if it is the release in general, or the particular bottle.

https://www.whiskybase.com/whiskies/whisky/81686/h...

Thanks, I'm sure a bit of variety is useful and it certainly makes things more interesting when perusing bottles.

The HP 18 y/o looks pretty exceptional too, though I fear I'd have to make some serious austerity measures elsewhere to justify a bottle at present!

[LeighW]

pmanson said:

LeighW said:

This arrived yesterday; my fourth bottle and the last one I can find anywhere online. It's just so delicious with beautiful confectionary notes, guess I have a sweet tooth!

This is my favourite! Waiting for Podie to deliver mine

Do you mind me asking where you've found it available still, I can't find it anywhere. There were a few bottles in stock at whiskyworld.com, but I let slip to a whisky drinking friend, and he emptied their supply!

Alternatively, if anyone can give me a pointer to any other whiskies with a very similar profile to this, I would be mucho grateful. I've even messaged Ralfy to ask him, but although he was kind enough to reply to me, he has never tried it so couldn't help. He just pointed me to Whisky Base, info here:

https://www.whiskybase.com/whiskies/whisky/52388/b...