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By @Wodha @Wodha on 15th Jan 2010, show post

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@Victor
Victor replied

Old Grand-Dad 114, my first ever Connosr review whisky, and the first bottle of this I have opened in 2 or 3 years. This is still for me the best bourbon on the market for the money, and the only 57% ABV whiskey you can buy anywhere in the world for under $ 30. The Old Grand-Dad is truly an Outrageous Old Man.

8 years ago 0

@sengjc
sengjc replied

A tot of Zuidam Millstone 100 Rye - a Dutch distilled rye style whiskey.

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Was a little "aniseed" when freshly opened - nicely settled with the taste profile becoming integrated after about a week.

8 years ago 0

@FMichael
FMichael replied

Talisker 10 yr.

Haven't had a 'Scotch' whisky in a few months...Really savoring the flavours.

8 years ago 0

@MaltActivist
MaltActivist replied

Tonight I'm having the Kilkerran WIP 7 Bourbon Oak Cask Strength. The nose is quite gorgeous - full of minerals. Good quality bourbon maturation served just the way I like it. But the palate. I'm going to say this, and I NEVER do, but OMG!

Quite possibly one of the most balanced profile I have encountered. Each flavor on point and arrives with the grace of a seasoned ballerina.

Now add a 70% Lindt to that and you have an evening in the making...

8 years ago 1Who liked this?

@Nock
Nock replied

I haven’t had the pleasure of a dram in over a week. So I broke my “fast” with a tasting of three Benromach 10yo batches. I had a sample from a bottle several years ago (2012) that I adored. It had such an amazing balance of malt, peat, sherry, smoke, and oak. I wish they could all taste like this one! I am so sad I don’t have anymore.

Then I had a bottle from 2013 that had far more sherry influence (very much on the funky side). I had the remains of one bottle that was open for over a year. And I just popped the cork on a brand new bottle (same batch). Thankfully, this one really blooms with time. I’ll have to give it some air and leave it in the back of the cabinet for several months. It is a continued revelation how much sherry matured whisky can expand and blossom with a healthy amount of time and air.

Finally, I have a new batch from 2015 where the sherry is extremely clean (no funk). However, the peat and malt are not as prominent as in the 2012. It really falls right between the older two batches. It is ok, but my least favorite. I love the 2012, and I enjoy where the 2013 will get in time (with all its sherry funk).

Anyway, the continued joy of batch variation. I love it.

P. S. In my opinion Ralfy is correct. Benromach is doing great things. Support them and buy a bottle or two (I have no affiliation: I’m just a drinker). However, beware that every batch is different. That is just the nature of the single malt beast.

8 years ago 1Who liked this?

@Nozinan
Nozinan replied

@nosebleed and I are on a family trip to la belle province. The ladies have all gone out for dinner, and we're managing 5 little ones with the assistance of Netflix and iPads. I brought along a few sample bottles of a few favourites.

We are starting out with a Amrut single cask 3444 (bourbon cask). What a wonderful whisky. I can only hope that the other casks are as good as this one is.

Because this is not a connosr free for all epic tasting, we may or may not make it to the next in line, a 50 50 mix of The Amrut and Booker's, married now for a few days.

8 years ago 0

@newreverie
newreverie replied

@Victor OGD114 is $21.62 with tax and plentiful. Unbelievable value and all around good bourbon. It has replaced 1835 and wild turkey 101 as my low shelf bourbon. I still keep Jim Beam Devil's Cut as my favorite mixing bourbon and they are priced the same.

8 years ago 0

@paddockjudge
paddockjudge replied

@MaltActivist, I very much look forward to you reviews and comments. Perhaps I might lend a suggestion from my experience with dark chocolate and whisky... 90% or 95% Lindt dark chocolate...and for those who dare to cross over to the deepest abyss of the dark side, Lindt 99%. The bigger the %, the truer the taste. I find the 'lower' % dark chocolates promote a 'faux' ripe fruit characteristic which is derived from the chocolate and not he whisky. My sweet tooth prefers 90% and single grain or single malt.

8 years ago 1Who liked this?

@Victor
Victor replied

@newreverie, it is good not to take the abundance currently on our shelves for granted. Whisk(e)ys remain plentiful...until the day when they are not. I have seen it over and over, in just the last 6 years. Stay alert. Something is happening with OGD114, and I don't know yet what it is. It is nearly disappearing from a very large bourbon market, DC/Baltimore. Is that the beginning of a national/global change, either its morphing into other products or its disappearance? It is a little too soon to say at this point, but something has changed, maybe at the corporate level, about production and distribution of this product. I would be happy to see it morph into a Beam Small Batch product, as long as it stays affordable. I just don't want to see it disappear, or double in price. (My last few Old Grand-Dad 114 bottles were at a close-out pricing of $ 18.52 each, including the tax. Usually I have spent more like $ 23-24, including the tax.)

8 years ago 0

@newreverie
newreverie replied

Down to the bottom of one of my oldest bottles. A Glenfiddich 15 1L that i've had for at least 7 years. It reminds me why I love this hobby so much. The sherry, floral honey, and fruit notes that have developed in this bottle are decadent. I think i'll save the very last two pours for me and my sister in law. I've been trying to transition her from canadian whisky to scotch and i think that this is the perfect example to compete with the sweeter ryes in my canadian collection.

8 years ago 0

@newreverie
newreverie replied

@Victor True, but like you I am nearing a buying plateau. I refuse to expand into a third cabinet and as such I am fast approaching the point where my buying will be limited to replacing empty bottles and seasonal limited edition acquiring.

8 years ago 0

@Victor
Victor replied

@newreverie, yes, you and I are in a similar place, with respect to new whisky acquisitions. It takes a lot to get me to open a new bottle anymore too, because I have so many bottles open currently.

8 years ago 1Who liked this?

@chrisbator
chrisbator replied

Interesting Signatory bottling of Heavily peated Jura.... Peated malt for Bowmore distilled at Jura, aged at Bowmore ... Distilled in 1989, not so smokey but peaty and oily

8 years ago 0

@Ol_Jas
Ol_Jas replied

@chrisbator , what does that mean? Was the barley originally malted and peated at Port Ellen Maltings for Bowmore but Jura stole it or something?

Or by chance is that a typo in your post, and it was peated malt FROM Bowmore (nor FOR), as in from their own floor malting?

8 years ago 0

@Abunadhman
Abunadhman replied

Booker's 2013 / 6 - Looks like being brilliant but it is so slow to open up; I'm tempted to buy another, decant it into large glass and push it to the very back of the cabinet. I've absolutely no doubts about the quality though I'm puzzled by the slow development - I poured a small 25ml. taste and added four or five drops of pure water and let it sit with the lid on a good hour; now, that woke it up and how; and yet it still improved in the glass! I'm inclined to think that Whiskeys with the most to give are somehow reluctant to serve it all up 'til the time is right! Of course I'll purchase one or two bottles to have on hand: Perhaps two bottles into three decanters might work better with more air-space...We'll see!

8 years ago 0

@MaltActivist
MaltActivist replied

@paddockjudge I'm planning on sitting with it tomorrow for a more serious tasting session - it quite a fabulous little whisky the Kilkerran WIP 7 Bourbon Cask / Cask Strength

8 years ago 0

@chrisbator
chrisbator replied

@OlJas the malt was misdelivered, intended for Bowmore but delivered to Jura by mistake. The error wasn't discovered until after it was distilled. The result was sent to Bowmore to age.... Because of the different stills it didn't work for Bowmore, so apparently it went back to Jura, but at that time Jura didn't have a Peated offering so Signatory bought it up....

8 years ago 0

@chrisbator
chrisbator replied

Tonight it's a Stronanchie 12yr old bottle I like and have been coming back to every couple of months.

8 years ago 0

@talexander
talexander replied

Relaxing with some Buffalo Trace.

8 years ago 1Who liked this?

@Nozinan
Nozinan replied

@nosebleed and I completed a trip to Quebec, and while there was little time for whisky, we did sample some of the beers Quebec has to offer, including Unibrue' Blanche de Chambly, Fin du Monde and oneother we can't remember the name of (something with "dieu"), Three Musketeers (from Brossard), Loch Ness Scotch Ale (from somewhere in Quebec), and finally tonight Moby Dick from Levis (acrtoss the St. Lawrence from Quebec City).

Quebec may not produce any whiskies, but they have a LOT of quality craft beers.

I liked Fin du Monde best, followed by Blanche de Chambly and Three musketeers.

with apologies to @Robert99 for not getting the language completely correct.

8 years ago 0

@Robert99
Robert99 replied

@Nozinan Too bad I didn't have the opportunity to meet you! I am thinking about going to the SOT this year, so maybe I will meet you there. And talking of beer, did you get the opportunity to taste The beer Corps Mort? That is a barley wine from a distillery located on Les Îles de la Madeleine in the St-Lawrence gulf. The name of the beer means the dead body. They smoked the hops of this beer in the same smoke house that they smoked the fishes, so there could be some traces of dead fish in the mashbill of the beer, therefore the name. There is a lot of batch variation on that beer but I remember having a few bottles and thinking how great would be a whisky made out of it. The name of the distillery is À l'abri de la tempête wich means Sheltered from the storm. The beer is quite expensive but if you see it next time you should try it.

8 years ago 0

@Nozinan
Nozinan replied

@Robert99

Well, next time I head east I'll definitely have to check in with you about the best beverages. Maybe the dead bodies refers to the fish...

I don't know if a return to SOT is in the cards after a VERY disappointing experience this year. It was fun, but only because I got to see friends. The samples were, with a few notable exceptions, mediocre.

I hope I'll be able to see you sooner if you come into town. You have a date with destiny...Lambertus. If I win in October, Ottawa will not be so far away for you.

SANTÉ

8 years ago 0

@PMessinger
PMessinger replied

Isle of Skye 12yr old blended. Love this stuff. (:

8 years ago 2Who liked this?

@Robert99
Robert99 replied

@Nozinan Next time you are in Quebec find any William J Walter Saucissier store. They are usually having between 150 to 350 different kind of beers all from Quebec Microdistillery. Of course almost any village has its bar with a good variety and there a few Depanneurs that specialised in beers but they are tougher to find. More and more the grocery stores have a nice selection of beers with maybe 80 beers craftmade.

Good luck in October!

8 years ago 1Who liked this?

@paddockjudge
paddockjudge replied

@PMessinger, I look forward to trying this blended 12 YO. The Isle of Skye 8 is a nice pour and offers excellent value.

8 years ago 1Who liked this?

@Alexsweden
Alexsweden replied

An evening of nuances. Clynelish 14, Auchentoshan valinch -12 and glenlivet nàdurra. The glenlivet actually took the trophy tonight!

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