Aberlour A'bunadh Batch 50

@cricklewood Rumour was that most of those stacked Marshalls were empty shells, just there to look good on stage.

I was never much of an A'Bunadh fanboy and haven't had any since Batch 21. I'd give it another try if the price hadn't gone stupid out here.

@BlueNote yes indeed the extra stacks were frequently duds. I think I have a soft-spot for A'bunadh because it was formative in my early whisky journey. I used to buy a bottle every Christmas, I haven't done that in a while.

I'm just not thrilled by sherry bombs anymore, at least not so much that I want a whole bottle. Unless it's got lots of other underlying characteristics.

That said some of these A'bunadh batches can be quite stellar especially when the bottle has been open a while.

@cricklewood A'Bunadh (batch 33) played a key role in my whisky education. It was the first whisky that made me go wow. When my whisky club met 3-4 times a year (and when my range of experience and cabinet selection was more narrow) I used to finish 1 bottle in a year. Even so, trying to keep up with all the batches left me a huge backlog. Now the bottles I have open last much longer. For instance my batch 49 was opened 2.5 years ago and is almost done. The 50 was opened a year later and I still have over half left (and hasn't been poured in almost 10 months).