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Single Malt Scotch Drinkers?

Roy_

Roy_

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The quality of a whisky in an open bottle is a 'big topic' on whisky fora. There are whiskies getting worse, but there are also whiskies getting better. I know people who start spread whisky of an emptying bottle in smaller bottles (or make a sample on opening a bottle for later), people who seal their open bottles, but also people with hundreds and hundreds bottles opened without 'special treatment'. I have some 20 or 25 bottles opened, some with not too much in it, others with hardly anything out. I don't really take notice much, but a bottle that I do know does not get better when it's opened, I will empty a bit sooner should I buy it again.

Caol Ila hard to find? Never noticed that. It is even fairly easy to buy an independent bottling (which are better than the 'official' releases), at least, here in the Netherlands.

Yesterday I emptied an independent single cask cask strength Lagavullin (the Whisky Exchange), I saved an Octomore 7.1 to open once that happened, so that one will be uncorked some time soon :) I also have a closed Laphroaig Quarter Cask (found it so cheap that I couldn't let stay in the shop) which I will only open after I finish the (considerably more expensive) Laphroaig Madeira cask.
 
Roy_

Roy_

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.... Laphroaig Madeira cask.
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Ohhhh.. that sounds good.
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That's the Cairdeas 2016. A funny story how I got it. Laphroaig has the habit of releasing sign-in-lottery-bottles. I love some Madeira bottled and finished whiskies such as the Ballechin (no longer available), but also lighter whiskies such as Penderyn. I am no fond of the Kilchoman, but Arran is nice as well. So when there was a Madeira finished Laphroaig, I signed up even though it would cost some $ 100,- (not the first time I spent this on a bottle though). Then people of a whisky forum that I am member of started to cheer they 'won the lotery', but I heard nothing. I mentioned this on the forum and somebody else sold me his bottle which costed less than it would have would I have had to pay the postal costs from Islay to the Netherlands.
In any case, limited and available here and there, but for quite high prices. I would buy it again for $ 100,-, but not for $ 200,-.

For me, the character of an open bottle generally changes and I am yet to find one that changes for the better...
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I usually do not dislike the development of taste in smokey whiskies. They change (usually a bit) for sure, but not for the worse. Fruity whiskies and 'sherry-bombs' can turn bad, but not within a year or so. I have bottles that have been open for years and which still taste good, such as the Glenlivet French Oak Reserve. I have never had a whisky that was good on opening and bad a while later, different perhaps, not always for the better, but never did I have a whisky change a lot.

Yesterday I opened an Octomore 7.1. That will probably my whisky of choice for the coming months.
 
Bloke

Bloke

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Roy_ said:
That's the Cairdeas 2016. A funny story how I got it. Laphroaig has the habit of releasing sign-in-lottery-bottles. I love some Madeira bottled and finished whiskies such as the Ballechin (no longer available), but also lighter whiskies such as Penderyn. I am no fond of the Kilchoman, but Arran is nice as well. So when there was a Madeira finished Laphroaig, I signed up even though it would cost some $ 100,- (not the first time I spent this on a bottle though). Then people of a whisky forum that I am member of started to cheer they 'won the lotery', but I heard nothing. I mentioned this on the forum and somebody else sold me his bottle which costed less than it would have would I have had to pay the postal costs from Islay to the Netherlands.
In any case, limited and available here and there, but for quite high prices. I would buy it again for $ 100,-, but not for $ 200,-.



I usually do not dislike the development of taste in smokey whiskies. They change (usually a bit) for sure, but not for the worse. Fruity whiskies and 'sherry-bombs' can turn bad, but not within a year or so. I have bottles that have been open for years and which still taste good, such as the Glenlivet French Oak Reserve. I have never had a whisky that was good on opening and bad a while later, different perhaps, not always for the better, but never did I have a whisky change a lot.

Yesterday I opened an Octomore 7.1. That will probably my whisky of choice for the coming months.
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Penderyn - I had that for the first time recently.. I liked it too, in the mouth, it was a bit like and Irish Whiskey, but definitely with a Scotch finish.. i didn't even know the Welsh made a Whiskey..

Octomore 7.1. - sounds good...I will look out for it...
 
Roy_

Roy_

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My girlfriend wanted to try the Penderyn because it is Welsh. They've got but a few expressions, but their Madeira finished "profile" whisky is their best.

Octomore. That's a peat-lovers whisky. Octomore is one of the experimental branches of Bruichladdich. They have started to make extremely peated whisky and each edition has more peat. A whisky such as Ardbeg 10 has 55 ppm (fenol 'parts per milion'), the Octomore 6.1 had 167 ppm and the 7.1 208. Then again, these ppm's are the fenols in the malt before distilling, so these numbers are mostly to make it sounds interesting. I do not find Octomore extremely smokey, it is nothing like the liquid ashtray called Säntis Dreifältigkeit (a Swiss whisky) which is (it seems) 'only' 32 ppm.
And Octomores come in expensive bottles and very expensive bottles. The 6.1 and 7.1 are somewhere between $ 100 and $ 150, but 6.2 and 7.2 twice that. They come in matt black bottles in black containers (I believe there has been a white edition as well).
 
Bloke

Bloke

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Roy_ said:
My girlfriend wanted to try the Penderyn because it is Welsh. They've got but a few expressions, but their Madeira finished "profile" whisky is their best.

Octomore. That's a peat-lovers whisky. Octomore is one of the experimental branches of Bruichladdich. They have started to make extremely peated whisky and each edition has more peat. A whisky such as Ardbeg 10 has 55 ppm (fenol 'parts per milion'), the Octomore 6.1 had 167 ppm and the 7.1 208. Then again, these ppm's are the fenols in the malt before distilling, so these numbers are mostly to make it sounds interesting. I do not find Octomore extremely smokey, it is nothing like the liquid ashtray called Säntis Dreifältigkeit (a Swiss whisky) which is (it seems) 'only' 32 ppm.
And Octomores come in expensive bottles and very expensive bottles. The 6.1 and 7.1 are somewhere between $ 100 and $ 150, but 6.2 and 7.2 twice that. They come in matt black bottles in black containers (I believe there has been a white edition as well).
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Thanks - I will get our air-hostess supplier to look for Octomores duty free :)
 
Roy_

Roy_

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And now for something completely different. Compass Box, FC whisky :)

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jasper7788

jasper7788

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I looked at the website and I'm very interested in this Compass Box whiskey. Is this scotch only available in the U.K.? I live in the U.S. and am an avid scotch drinker. Always looking to try something new. I really want to give this a try.


Bro Jason Moreland
Barger Lodge #325
Stroudsburg, Pa
 
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