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ankhtahr:
So I opened the 22 year old Ben Nevis. I don't exactly have a reason, I just felt like having a dram.
It is delicious. Not as heavy as my typical Laphroaig, not as sweet as some Sherry matured Scotch tends to be. A bit fiery at 47%, but still smooth. Wonderful. I have bottle 675 of 817 bottles taken from this cask, cask number 2908.
And I'm drinking something that is several years older than myself.
Lupercal:
Well, just got my Dad some of this for Father's Day:
Have yet to try it but its the only distillery in the country to make English Whisky (in Norfolk). Is it safe to say nobody else here has had this?
Another interesting fact: this whiskey outsold its Scottish rival two to one at Christmas 2013 (at the one supermarket that supplies it), likely due to the Independence vote in September!
pwhodges:
Not safe to say! (yes, I've shared a bottle with a friend.)
I've also had Welsh "Chwisgi", but not the one you can buy now. This Wikipedia article (in fact, the Internet as a whole) appears not to know about the abortive start of a distillery on the Lleyn Peninsular in North Wales in the 1970s; I note that the first reference in that article is to a book by a late family friend, the person brought my first wife and me together.
D-alx:
Anybody here frequents reddit /r/scotch? I got a bottle of the /r/scotch 7year old cask strength ledaig. Some amazing stuff right there.
Also @Method of Madness, Lagavulin 12 is better than the 16 (to me) because its cask strength and holds a fair bit more flavor than the 16. I'm quite partial to cask strength stuff (Aberlour A'bunadh, Laga 12, Amrut Cask Strength)
Method of Madness:
Lagavulin 12 will be my next bottle then, you've convinced me...assuming I can find it. And it won't be until I move into my new place whenever that is.
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