Show us your whisky! Vol 2

[jammy-git]

I hate that Tobermorey. One of the first proper Scotch whisky's I bought about 6 years ago and recently gave the half bottle left to a friend who had started to build his own collection.

[RDMcG]

A few new ones:

Octomore 10.1
Aberlour a'Bunadh
Oban 14
Bunnahabhain 18
Maker's Mark RC6..quite hard to get- one time production.

[shady lee]

jammy-git said:

I hate that Tobermorey. One of the first proper Scotch whisky's I bought about 6 years ago and recently gave the half bottle left to a friend who had started to build his own collection.

Funny you should say that, it was given to me as a gift, it seems to have almost a dried fruit after taste.

It's ok, but not up on my list either.

[marksx]

Makers RC6, I'll have to look that up. One of my favourite bourbons

[RDMcG]

marksx said:

Makers RC6, I'll have to look that up. One of my favourite bourbons

Reviewed below- I picked up a bottle in Arizona but not sure of Euro distribution:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-12-16...

The distillery itself is a beautiful place if you ever have a chance to visit. You can dip your own bottle. It is harder that it looks!

[C70R]

Polished off a 12yo Limited Edition Hibiki over Christmas (has been open for ~6mths), and decided to check what it would cost to replace it.

https://dekanta.com/store/hibiki-12-years-old-kach...

Bugger.

ETA: I'm fairly sure I paid no more than £50-60 for it.

Edited by C70R on Sunday 5th January 16:24

[NRS]

Ignore Dekanta. They're one of the worst on prices in the world. No idea how they actually sell anything.

[C70R]

NRS said:

Ignore Dekanta. They're one of the worst on prices in the world. No idea how they actually sell anything.

A bit of further Googling revealed they are actually changing hands for £3-400.

Slightly less "bugger", but very bizarre to shoot up in such a short period.

[NRS]

Are you sure it's the limited edition ones you had before? They're the same juice inside as the normal ones (at least the airport special editions), just they charge a lot more for the fancy bottle. However, in general Japanese stuff is silly these days, and I think they might have discontinued the 12yo (they did for sure on some of the age statement ones, not 100% if the 12yo was affected too). But even then, loads is going silly now. Now anything dark sherry single cask will be £100 plus for the most part, even the distilleries no one cared about. 30yo stuff is now generally £2-300 plus etc. The entire market is crazy for anything limited, and yet weirdly some regular stuff is pretty much as cheap as it's been for a long time.

[Mr Trophy]

HotJambalaya said:

Cheeky sample of each the other day....

Where?

I've desperately been wanting to try the Yam25 for literally years...

[C70R]

NRS said:

Are you sure it's the limited edition ones you had before? They're the same juice inside as the normal ones (at least the airport special editions), just they charge a lot more for the fancy bottle. However, in general Japanese stuff is silly these days, and I think they might have discontinued the 12yo (they did for sure on some of the age statement ones, not 100% if the 12yo was affected too). But even then, loads is going silly now. Now anything dark sherry single cask will be £100 plus for the most part, even the distilleries no one cared about. 30yo stuff is now generally £2-300 plus etc. The entire market is crazy for anything limited, and yet weirdly some regular stuff is pretty much as cheap as it's been for a long time.

It absolutely was the limited edition; bought in Narita. The box was identical to the one in the hilariously-priced link.

I'm sure it was exactly the same inside as the non-limited one. A lovely whisky, but not £400-worth.

[supercommuter]

AndyTR said:

Athlon said:

Is Snow Phoenix still a liked Whisky by those who know? I have a bottle or two sitting around that I should really be drinking.. I moved over to rum for a while so I drink Pussers gun powder proof at the mo (Wow!). I need to thin out my collection but I don't know if I should keep the Snow Phoenix for my birthday?
Happy new year

Definitely one to save for a special occasion. It's fetching between £600-700 retail and the last bottle I saw at auction was around £300. I have a bottle and will be saving it for a few years before I drink it.

I purchased a bottle for my Glenfiddich collection for £200 a few months back at auction. Unlikely it will get opened

[C70R]

supercommuter said:

AndyTR said:

Athlon said:

Is Snow Phoenix still a liked Whisky by those who know? I have a bottle or two sitting around that I should really be drinking.. I moved over to rum for a while so I drink Pussers gun powder proof at the mo (Wow!). I need to thin out my collection but I don't know if I should keep the Snow Phoenix for my birthday?
Happy new year

Definitely one to save for a special occasion. It's fetching between £600-700 retail and the last bottle I saw at auction was around £300. I have a bottle and will be saving it for a few years before I drink it.

I purchased a bottle for my Glenfiddich collection for £200 a few months back at auction. Unlikely it will get opened

I'll never understand, but to each his own.

[malks222]

i’m looking for some help or advice, I want to get some ‘bottle your own’ from glen dronach to celebrate/ mark the birth of my daughter. however they don’t do shipping/ postage!!

does anyone know any courier that would pick these up and deliver to edinburgh? the distillery have said they can’t/ don’t do any packaging either, so i think they’d need to pick it up/ put it in packaging?? any help greatly appreciated.

[Mr Trophy]

malks222 said:

i’m looking for some help or advice, I want to get some ‘bottle your own’ from glen dronach to celebrate/ mark the birth of my daughter. however they don’t do shipping/ postage!!

does anyone know any courier that would pick these up and deliver to edinburgh? the distillery have said they can’t/ don’t do any packaging either, so i think they’d need to pick it up/ put it in packaging?? any help greatly appreciated.

That's pretty piss poor. Does it have to be glenronch? What about Glenfiddich?

[malks222]

Mr Trophy said:

That's pretty piss poor. Does it have to be glenronch? What about Glenfiddich?

doesn’t have to be, but that is my favourite. but it’s alright, i bought a couple of bottles anyway. my parents said they might head up north for a weekend break and go pick it up for me over the next few weeks. my wife also has friends that stay up that way too, so may be able to get them to pick it up too.

[supercommuter]

C70R said:

supercommuter said:

AndyTR said:

Athlon said:

Is Snow Phoenix still a liked Whisky by those who know? I have a bottle or two sitting around that I should really be drinking.. I moved over to rum for a while so I drink Pussers gun powder proof at the mo (Wow!). I need to thin out my collection but I don't know if I should keep the Snow Phoenix for my birthday?
Happy new year

Definitely one to save for a special occasion. It's fetching between £600-700 retail and the last bottle I saw at auction was around £300. I have a bottle and will be saving it for a few years before I drink it.

I purchased a bottle for my Glenfiddich collection for £200 a few months back at auction. Unlikely it will get opened

I'll never understand, but to each his own.

Investment/Collection

I normally buy two of most bottles and then keep one for my collection. Just like people collect various trinkets with the added bonus of generally appreciating...if i dont open them, which i have a few second bottles.

[C70R]

supercommuter said:

C70R said:

supercommuter said:

AndyTR said:

Athlon said:

Is Snow Phoenix still a liked Whisky by those who know? I have a bottle or two sitting around that I should really be drinking.. I moved over to rum for a while so I drink Pussers gun powder proof at the mo (Wow!). I need to thin out my collection but I don't know if I should keep the Snow Phoenix for my birthday?
Happy new year

Definitely one to save for a special occasion. It's fetching between £600-700 retail and the last bottle I saw at auction was around £300. I have a bottle and will be saving it for a few years before I drink it.

I purchased a bottle for my Glenfiddich collection for £200 a few months back at auction. Unlikely it will get opened

I'll never understand, but to each his own.

Investment/Collection

I normally buy two of most bottles and then keep one for my collection. Just like people collect various trinkets with the added bonus of generally appreciating...if i dont open them, which i have a few second bottles.

That's fair, I suppose.

I have a chunk of cash in bonded wines, so I get it, but it's much easier to live with because I may never even see it.

I'd find it frustrating to have a cellar full of wonderful wine/whisky at home that I knew couldn't drink.

[pmanson]

LeighW said:

After trying the Glen Garioch Virgin Oak, bought a bottle from Royal Mile Whiskies. It may be NAS, but I really like it; quite sweet and spicey, a lovely dram (appeals to my taste anyway).

Is it along the lines of the Ben Riach American Virgin Oak?

[Mr Trophy]

C70R said:

supercommuter said:

C70R said:

supercommuter said:

AndyTR said:

Athlon said:

Is Snow Phoenix still a liked Whisky by those who know? I have a bottle or two sitting around that I should really be drinking.. I moved over to rum for a while so I drink Pussers gun powder proof at the mo (Wow!). I need to thin out my collection but I don't know if I should keep the Snow Phoenix for my birthday?
Happy new year

Definitely one to save for a special occasion. It's fetching between £600-700 retail and the last bottle I saw at auction was around £300. I have a bottle and will be saving it for a few years before I drink it.

I purchased a bottle for my Glenfiddich collection for £200 a few months back at auction. Unlikely it will get opened

I'll never understand, but to each his own.

Investment/Collection

I normally buy two of most bottles and then keep one for my collection. Just like people collect various trinkets with the added bonus of generally appreciating...if i dont open them, which i have a few second bottles.

That's fair, I suppose.

I have a chunk of cash in bonded wines, so I get it, but it's much easier to live with because I may never even see it.

I'd find it frustrating to have a cellar full of wonderful wine/whisky at home that I knew couldn't drink.

Especially when you're pissed.

Made a few interesting "mistakes" that's for sure...