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Hello fellow whisky enthusiasts.

Had an email from Master Of Malt today with their latest offering of a 27 year old single grain whisky matured in a refill hogshead from Invergordon for £69.95.

Now being a relative novice when it comes to whisky do you think this will be a good purchase to add to the collection? So far I have only purchased single malts.

Would love to hear your thoughts!

I am trying to buy ballantein 21 yrs. I live in NYC. I've never purchases whisky before. Any recommendations on where to go?

I like the taste. Cheers 🥃

Although they do all smell smokey.

Here's the current stock, any recommendations?

SOLVED! Thanks everyone who commented.

Hi all, I'm looking for a recommendation as I don't really know whisk(e)y well enough. It's my brother in law's birthday and I know he loves Glenfiddich 12 year but I want to spend £100-130 on a bottle.

Given that I'm aware brand names usually command a higher price, I'm keen to buy something less known if it means it's a better dram. When I've gone to look, so many of the bottles at this price range start to be from smaller batches and the review sites often accordingly don't have anything on them.

To be honest I don't know what to trust either, so perhaps someone here can help me find something that would fit this sort of palate and price range?

TIA!

There’s availability for rarer bottles everywhere but prices are absolutely nuts. I miss Colorado, it’s almost 2-3x as expensive for each bottle no matter where I look.

I recently got hired in my dream field and decided to do some reckless spending for me. I bought the Bruichladdich and the Talisker as I had been interested to try them for a while, and my parents were very kind and bought me the Redbreast.

Good few bottles

Any experience with this whisky? It is kind of really cheap here, 20 €. I was considering whether to get it as a present for a friend.

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I was eyeing up the Scottish National Whisky Festival in Glasgow next year, and was hoping to get any recommendation. Being in Glasgow it's very convenient, and at a good time next year. Does anyone know if the earlier or later session is better and / or any advice for before going?

Drumshanbo Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey review #7

Drumshanbo Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey 43%

From the Shed Distillery, Drumshanbo offer a wonderful selection of spirits to choose from, specifically Gin. The gin they offer is quite spectacular and comes highly recommended by me for any Gin enthusiast or occasional drinker of something a little more light and fresh. Back to whiskey. This is quite a new distillery as it has only been operational as of 2014 but has taken off quite effectively as I believe they have always had some intention of distilling whiskey, but had to sell something to help the period of a few years that they would be waiting to sell the whisky they are aging. The gin helped them do just that. I’ve had this bottle open for over a year and have just now finished it. It cost me 80 Canadian dollars. This whiskey is believed to be a blended from ages ranging from 3-7 years old so quite young and has been matured in both ex-bourbon and ex-oloroso casks, was distilled with barley, Irish malted barely, and Irish oats. From my readings and research this whiskey is supposedly natural colour and the light colour does indicate to me that there would be no reason to leave it this light to colour it , so good on them if that’s true.

Notes- Lemon, Banana, Malty/cereal/Grain, Coconut, Sour green apple, Roasted Sunflower seeds, pumpkin pie, buttery shortbread, vanilla, mild spicy ginger, sour lemon in the finish, brief apricot, full mouthfeel.

Score- 69

I think this is a perfectly competent whiskey. The is whiskey is certainly more enjoyable than something like Jameson’s, Bushmills white label, and Powers red label. Having said that it’s almost twice the price of all the previously mentioned whiskeys and I don’t know if this specific whiskies justifies that. I can pick up Powers red label for 37 dollars on regular sales which is half the price of this, and for that , I’d rather have 2 bottles of that than 1 bottle of this Drumshanbo. If this bottle was around 50ish CAD than I’d be much more praising of it and happily pay 10-15 dollars more for this quality than the usual suspects. This whiskey is a victim of its own circumstance of being a newer distillery with younger aged stock selling at above average prices. For 80 dollars we are looking at Highland park 12, Green Spot Irish Whiskey, Craigallachie 13, and Glenmorangie 12 amongst other notable whisky’s. If anyone is a fan of the gin made at this distillery, I’d recommend if your curious to buy a bottle of this to try seeing as it’s still a perfectly acceptable younger whiskey, but I’d caution anyone’s expectation that the money they lay down for this may not directly be “worth” whatever you personally think is worthy of the money =value=quality. Still, Shed distillery, well done, I understand you can’t sell whiskey at the price Jameson does seeing as they produce astronomical numbers in terms of how much liquid they pump out every year, but if there can be a slight price adjustment, I think more people could experience your good product.

Whisky that rates as the best I have ever tried thus far in my journey or have yet to try95-99/100

Whisky that is verging on some of the best alcohol that I have even tried, a must have, standout, uniquely special, wonderful 90-94/100

Whisky that is excellent, something I would take 30 minutes to 1 hour to finish, I make a point to try and buy more than 1 bottle when possible 85-89/100

Whisky that is great, always a pleasure to have a glass of this, would re buy without much hesitation and would take 20-30 minutes to enjoy the glass 80-84/100

Whisky that I would say is very good and would have no problem drinking, mostly neat, would only re buy on very few occasions 75-79/100

Whisky that is good, but nothing exceptional or uniquely different, usually neat 70-74/100

Whisky that I would start experimenting in drinking over ice or occasionally neat 65-69/100

Whisky that I would mostly still mix 60-64/100

This is certainly only mixing whisky- 55-59/100

I’d begrudgingly say yes to be polite- 50-54/100

I think I’d refuse a glass of this politely and ask for some water- 49 and below/100

Looking for bottle shop recommendations in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Looking for value whiskies not available or usually seen in the US. Appreciate any guidance.

Manila will have its annual Whisky Live on Nov. 8-9. I plan to attend some of the masterclasses on the second day. I am planning to attend the Penderyn and Nikka, are these better choice?

Hey there fellow enthusiast. I'm heading to NZ for a couple of weeks and I'd love to check out some whisky distilleries. My objective here is really to check out distilleries that:

(1) have unique expressions (I love trying whiskies so different than anything else I've had / specific to the region - for example I think pokeno has a totara cask finish which is native to NZ);

(2) have whiskies that are hard difficult to get in Canada and or the US

(3) great founder stories

(4) scenic locations / setups

Any advice / suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you again, team!

Hey all,

Sorry if this isn't the good place to ask. I've been drinking several whisky over the past few years, but never in a way where I could really describe them well, and tell the exact differences between different products. I'm fortunate enough to have a friend that has make me try over 100 different bottles in the past 2 years, from cheap bottles up to bottle worth 1500-2000+ (I can't afford most of these bottles myself), but I'm glad and really appreciate that he did that to me. He definitely knows more than more about whiskies, but I wouldn't say he's a huge connaisseur himself.

So far one of my favorite whisky is Johnnie Walker Blue Label (not taking the price into consideration), but from what I'm reading online it is overated and too much expensive for what it's worth. I assume this is probably due to me not being a connaisseur or really knowledgeable about these. The reason why I like this one is because I really like the smell, the taste obviously and it feels really smooth in the throat . What are similar whisky you would recommend to me that I could enjoy based on this, and ideally under 200$/bottle? Is this enough information? I'm in the US and Canada if it matters.

Thanks

Currently looking for a bottle of Tale of Tokyo from Glenmorangie, any recommendations regarding a legit online seller with in Canada is highly appreciated!

Happy Friday Everyone!

Happy Friday Everyone!

What's your recommendation at this price? I know I'm not going to get anything decent but what is the best of the worst?

I picked this up on a recent warehouse tasting at Cadenheads in Campbeltown. We did a tasting of 6 straight from cask and I picked this as my favourite. Super meaty, a little bit of boozy raisin, nutty, almost like a dessert wine on the nose. Very good 10/10.