What is the next bottle you purchase or open?

@Whisk that should read Hazelburn Sauternes - a fantastic and flavoursome young whisky in my opinion.

I just got a new job so to celebrate I bought a Ledaig 10 and my first ever bottle of A'bunadh. I've had it on my list for a year and nw I have it. I rule! Batch 45 and I'm drinking it now!

A Scapa 16 yo that I have been saving for moving into my first home! Is it weird that I am more excited about a dram of eagerly awaited whisky than I am about moving in haha !

@Mallard

And.....? How is the A'Bunadh?

Rittenhouse 100% Rye this is an exciting and wonderful stepping stone for the path of the whisky journey that we all share. :)

Smokehead! Love this relatively inexpensive Islay dram. Young but Oh so tasty.

@Mallard - Congratulations! I have not tried this expression of Aberlour, although I will be making a truly epic whiskey mission next week and intend to pick up a bottle.

@paddockjudge

Where is your mission taking you? It seems to still be around in the LCBO. Though most other jurisdictions seem to be cheaper

Noticed I'm on my last bottle of Lagavulin 16 yr...Will have to pick up another one (or a few) within the next month, or so.

Next purchase is inbound:

Shakleton's Journey Monkey Shoulder Nikka Taketsuru 12 yr

@Pudge72: Which batch? I'm curious, as I can get either the #1 @ 51.2% or the #2, which is a rather red Port Wood Finish @ 51.3 - 'Had a Port Wood in my hand but the red color freaked me just a little and I put it back.

I would like your views, if you could and, of course, only if you intend opening it soon.

Thanks.

@A'bunadhman...the LCBO is not a model for timeliness when it comes to batch releases. I picked up the "newly issued" (and now almost gone, about three months later iirc) Cairdeas Origin, which is the 2012 edition of the Cairdeas. My understanding is that the Port Wood version is the 2013 edition.

My first tasting of the bottle will likely occur whenever @WhiskyJoe and I can have another sit down tasting...I'm thinking of a Cairdeas (first pour) / Quarter Cask / Cairdeas (second pour) mini-session.

@A'bunadhman...the LCBO is not a model for timeliness when it comes to batch releases. I picked up the "newly issued" (and now almost gone, about three months later iirc) Cairdeas Origin, which is the 2012 edition of the Cairdeas. My understanding is that the Port Wood version is the 2013 edition.

@Nozinan It's very nice thank you. I've forced myself to put it aside for a while, which was hard. I've just picked up a bottle of JW Green Label from a small rural bottle shop. I couldn't find it in Sydney at all.

Picked up Forty creek Heart if Gold. May not open it for ages, but if I tried to buy it when I'm ready it would be gone....

Glengoyne 18 yo

Not sure yet I'm trying to deiced between Parker Heritage Bourbon or Eagle Rare 10yr Single Barrel. One of these will get opened just not sure which one. :)

Just received two bottles of the Old Potrero 18th century (51.2% for these) and ordered some of the recent 25 Year Old HP (Cadenhead's Small Batch) 1988/2013. Pretty thrilled with those all around.

Settled for Isle of Skye 12yr old, my favorite blend for my favorite teams win Navy 28 Air Force 10. :)

Got a bottle of Tun 1401 batch 9 reserved. Hopefully, it will be arriving by the end of October.

Stopped in a random liquor store on my walk home this evening...walked out with the last bottle of Stagg Jr.

The next bottle I will open will be on November 9th, it will be my long awaited and newly acquired Balvenie 1401. I will be joining my admirals/wife's church and we will be celebrating. :)

Off to the US. If there is a duty free shop on the flight back and if there is anything good (2 big ifs), I will get something. Maybe a bourbon? If there ' s a good one...

Just picked up a Bruichladdich Legacy 6 for roughly $300 AUS :D I've just seen it selling for as much as 650 GBP! I'm so very happy and excited right now!!!

I've picked up a few interesting whiskies since my last post,

Gordon & MacPhail's Connoisseurs Choice Caol Ila 10 Year Old.

Trader Joe's Highland Single Malt 10 Year Old (pretty sure this is Speyburn 10 in the older 40%ABV bottling).

Knappogue Castle 1994 Single Malt Irish Whiskey.

Monkey Shoulder Batch 27 Blended Malt Scotch Whisky (new to the US market). A malt blend of three Speyside William Grant & Sons distilleries, Glenfiddich, Balvenie, and Kininvie.

Deanston 12 Year Old, non-chillfiltered, 46.3ABV version.

Hogshead Blended Malt Scotch Whisky. One source claims it is a malt blend of Linkwood & Lagavulin.

Journeyman, Around The World Series, Willowbank 10 Year Old Single Malt New Zealand Whisky. I did some research on this last one, and I'm pretty certain that this is the same whisky sold by The New Zealand Whisky Company, as their DoubleWood 10 Year Old. Aged 6 years in American Oak casks, and then finished for 4 years in French Oak red wine barrels (New Zealand Pinot Noir casks).

@Onibubba I was able to taste the Tun 1401 Batch 9 this weekend - most really loved it; I liked it but it was a bit too much honey sweetness for me. Beautifully done, though.

@talexander Big thanks for posting this! I am all about the honey, so this sounds spot on for me. I hope to do the New York whisky fest next year. How were the crowds?

Surprisingly, a bottle of Johnny Walker Swing.

I was at the Newark duty Free (it's a row of shelves with practically nothing on it). I couldn't buy something in a real store because i wasn't checking a bag.

I really wanted to bring home a bourbon, but the only thing they had was a Jack Daniels.

Incidentally, at the retreat I was at, someone brought up a bottle of bourbon and though the glassware wasn't optimal, it was my first taste of the stuff. Very smooth, 40%, actually smelled and tasted a little like a spirits forty creek. Most of it consumed under a clear, starry sky with few to no electric lights, and a guitar (not me playing).... I still need to try a higher end bourbon, but at least the experience was memorable.

@SquidgyAsh

Nice find, but will you sip or sell?

@Onibubba I think there were slightly fewer people than last year, but it was a great weekend. And won a lot at the Bonham's auction on Sunday, a Harwood Canadian whisky from 1946, and at a rock-bottom price.