very old scout

[rutterb]

local place has 8 or so bottles of very old scout, 19yr. For a 19 yr it was priced competitive or maybe a little lower. anyone tried it yet?

[petrel800]

I picked up a bottle in early Sept, but I haven't opened it yet. The Party Source had a few bottles of it and I thought it was worth trying for the price. It's also something that isn't distributed here in GA, so I figured it would be nice to get something I can't get locally. I haven't seen much on it outside of David Driscoll's blog. The folks out at K&L seemed to really like it.

Scroll down, there are a few different posts on the blog regarding very old scout.

http://spiritsjournal.klwines.com/kl...th/august-2012

[cowdery]

It's LDI bourbon, as tannic and tart as you'd expect from something that old, but otherwise a bit thin. The bottle I have is 14-years-old. I haven't heard about a 19-year-old.

I reviewed it and several other releases of LDI whiskey in the most recent Bourbon Country Reader. About the 14-year-old I wrote, "dry, with char dominant, and is interesting mostly for what it's missing. You have to keep reminding yourself that, as ingredients, these whiskeys are supposed to be unbalanced." Of course, this bourbon was probably not intended to be aged for 14 years either.

[soonami]

Here in the Mid-Atlantic, I've seen the 11, 14, and 19 year blends of VOS. I haven't tried any of them, but priced at around $60, $70, $80, I think they are pretty fair especially at the higher end.

[cowdery]

They are not blends. They are straight bourbon. I assume they're all LDI.

[michaelturtle1]

They are not blends. They are straight bourbon. I assume they're all LDI.

The KLwines article states the 14 yr is a blend of 4 different age LDI bourbons

[Happyhour24x7]

The 19yo is a blend 19 and 21 yo whiskey, and to my taste it is fantastic; a classic. I have grabbed every bottle I could find, which here wasn't very many. Grab one to try, and i don't think you'll regret it. The flipside of course is that if you love it, savor it, because what's out there is all that there is.

[HighInTheMtns]

The KLwines article states the 14 yr is a blend of 4 different age LDI bourbons

This is still a straight bourbon. With the exception of single barrels and bonds, most bottles of bourbon contain whiskies of different ages.

[soonami]

Semantics...

I meant "blends" in the way that some might say "expressions," but since this wasn't distillate that SA made, aged for different periods of time, I didn't know how ingenuous it would be to call them expressions. I used the term "blend" rather generically like one might use the term "cuvee" which usually means blend.

[smokinjoe]

Semantics...

I meant "blends" in the way that some might say "expressions," but since this wasn't distillate that SA made, aged for different periods of time, I didn't know how ingenuous it would be to call them expressions. I used the term "blend" rather generically like one might use the term "cuvee" which usually means blend.

I know exactly what you mean, and it probably is no big deal, but "blend" is maybe not the best way to state it. Nasty connotations to it. "Marrying", or "Mingling", might be better.

I will now go away and try to pull the string out of my arse...