Whiskys to enjoy with the Lady in your life

Loving three whiskies might be enough to encourage your wife toward a whisky 'nom de plume' and a profile picture. Might we see that happy event occur?

@Victor, I try everyday, but those are the only whiskys she enjoys. She loves champagne, vodka and gin the most. But if she does, her avatar will be her beloved bassethound and doxie.

@Victor, I even caught my wife marinating the Christmas turkey with my George T Stagg last year. It was the best tasting turkey to date, but I don't think it'll be happening again...lol

@whiskyshiba, talk about laughing out loud...marinating a Christmas turkey in George T. Stagg, that is hilarious! Did you know about that plan in advance?

@whiskyshiba Sounds like a wonderful turkey to me. My girlfriend isn't a big drinker at all so she goes out on a limb and noses my whiskies when I'm drinking them and sometimes has a sip, but never a full glass. She also can't stand Islays; she only likes the sweeter whiskies like Alberta Premium or Glenfarclas, but even then will never have more than a sip.

@Victor, I of course had no clue. She "only" used half the bottle. I was more afraid that the high ABV in a hot oven would burn the house down. It was a hoot. She thought it was "just a regular Kentucky bourbon."

@michaelschout, My wife was the same way. And years later she enjoys just those 3 whiskys. Have hope my friend!

My wife enjoys the smell of all whiskies, including Islay, but will only sip a few that are really sweet. She is very fond of Bushmills (especially the 16 Year Old Carribean Rum Cask), but also likes Tomatin 25 Year Old and a few Auchentoshan (although I think she just indulges me on that front). She will often take a sip of my glass to see what I'm going on about, but she's not going to be a whisky drinker at any given time. She's the wine nut of the family.

my girlfriend dislikes all the whiskies I have in my cabinet! :( from time to time I convince her to have a sip from a particularly sweet dram (last month I tried with the black bush), but she barely takes a sip a and makes absurd faces in disgust! actually, the only dram she "enjoyed" was a grant's family reserve taken from a hipflask on a cold winter evening (I think it was carnival)...and his mother used a rare Tormore Glenlivet from the 80s to cook just because she didn't want to crack open their bottle of ballantine's finest!!!

@lucadanna1985 her mother of course! :)

At some point my Dramlette will probably chime in for herself with this conversation, but I am gratified that she has recently been inching her way into enjoying Islays for the first time. Baby steps...but baby steps that I thought that she might never take. It looks to me like she will actually get completely into the 'Islay-loving' camp before too long.

My wife has just started enjoying wines with food so it will be a long time before she's drinking any whisky. Occasionally she will try a sip of whatever I'm drinking (if I think its sweet enough) but for the most part she is happy with amaretto on ice. She has a particular dislike to the smell of Islay whisky too.

My wife is not big on spirits. She enjoys rum and most cream liqueurs. However she has found 2 whisk(e)ys that she does like which are rather shocking......Ardbeg Uigeadail and Parker Heritage 27 Year Old.

Quite opposite of Whiskyshiba, my wife enjoys the peaty, smoky Islays (ahh, I knew I married her for a good reason, hehehe).

Other than that, she doesn't care much for whisky. She's more into rum.

My girlfriend is really in to try new whisky I bye...her favourite at the moment is Jack Daniels (in different proof) Glenlivet Nadurra Cask Strength and Glenfiddich 30.

A rare drinker, she is. But I know she likes Dalwhinnie and Scapa. As I usually drink the Islays she's welcome in my cabinet.

@michaelschout, my wife is the same, she'll always smell and taste after I offer but never has a glass of her own. She'll only stick with Baileys. From time to time, I'll get a "it's not bad" (Johnnie Walker Black Label) or even more rarely a "it's pretty good" (Highland Park 12 or Glenfiddich 15) but it's usually a pained look like a kid eating vegetables.

My wife disdains all except Laphroaig Quarter Cask. Go figure.

My wife will smell every whisky I open but at this point will only join me when I am having Lagavulin 16. She has good taste, no?

Liz has a bit of a shelf of her own going at the moment, following our trip to The Whisky Show last year. She's got Dalwhinnie 15 & 1990 Distillers' Ed, a Clynelish Distillers Edition, my Auchentoshan 12 QE2, and has lust in her eyes about Dalmore KA III.

I'm so happy.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd like to make an announcement. My lovely wife just had a breakthrough. Tonight she tried her first whisky from the Ilse of Skye. And she loved it! Talisker 10. She said "it tasted like 75% Aberlour and 25% Laphroaig." She had 2 drams as a nightcap.

Maybe now I can drink my Islays indoors now ;)

@whiskyshiba, First, offer me a Pappy Van Winkle 15 yo or George T. Stagg any day and I will gladly enjoy it with you. @victor would probably have had a myocardial infarction if I ever used half a bottle of Stagg to marinate anything in. My first choices for whiskys tend to be bourbons and ryes.

That having been said, my appreciation and enjoyment of single malts has grown greatly. My preferences tend to be for sherried malts, with a special fondness for Highland Park 18.

I bow to your wife's taste in loving Macallan 18 (just had a wee dram 5 minutes ago..hmm, smiling just reflecting back on it and so happy @victor picked that one up) and Yamazaki 12 (really nice with sashimi). I don't yet know Glenfarclas 1974, but I am fan of Glenfarclas 15.

With regard to the Islays, the first time I nosed a Laphroaig 10 and tasted it, I thought I had licked the bottom of an ashtray. Three years later, I am happy to say that I like a dramlette of Ardbeg Uigeadail, especially L10 151 and after tasting the Ardbeg Supernova 2010, urged, nay, begged @victor to buy it.

@Dramlette, Thank you! I'll have the Glenfarclas '74 and our HP40 waiting for you and @victor. And for y'all, a George T Stagg Turkey for dinner.

My wife is the same. She enjoys sherried whiskys but loathes Islays. But she really enjoyed Talisker 10 and now 18yr...baby steps.

@victor is a very lucky man to have you as his other half.

Chin-Chin!

Yea... my girlfriend will never be able to imbibe in the delights of whisk(e)y of any kind... REALLY not her thing... although I do tend to force her to taste mine.

She has never once not been disgusted. She is delicate like a peach, what can I say?