Which Water of Life Did You Purchase Today?

[squire]

Saw Black Bottle locally and I only know of this by reading. I'm not a big Island fan but have read some good stuff on this brand. My question is how peaty is this compared to, say, Bunnahabhain?

[dean_martin]

picked up a bottle of Redbreast 12yo today. I had it once at Avenue Pub in New Orleans. Really enjoyed it. It's not easy to find in my area so when I saw it I grabbed it.

[AVB]

Picked up a Snow Phoenix the other day. Quite tasty for a vatted malt.

[Rutter]

Talisker 10 was on offer for £21 so it went into the trolley, not convinced with it though.

[Megawatt]

Picked up a Snow Phoenix the other day. Quite tasty for a vatted malt.

Vatted? I thought it's a Glenfiddich single malt. Perhaps a better question is, why would you expect a vatted malt to be any less tasty than a single?

[Rutter]

Vatted? I thought it's a Glenfiddich single malt. Perhaps a better question is, why would you expect a vatted malt to be any less tasty than a single?

Its a single-malt with no age statement from some of the undamaged casks after the roof collapsed. Rumour has it that some of the scotch is >30yo wish I'd bought a bottle when I had the chance at £50.

[Brisko]

Saw Black Bottle locally and I only know of this by reading. I'm not a big Island fan but have read some good stuff on this brand. My question is how peaty is this compared to, say, Bunnahabhain?

A fair bit more peaty... you'd be hard pressed to find any peat in the last bottle of Bunny 12 I had, though there were hints of it.

Black Bottle is meant to be a Islay style blend (so, peaty). Is this the NAS or the 10 year old? (I don't even know if the 10 is available at the moment).

[squire]

Thought it would be, I mentioned Bunna as I understand it may be a large part of the blend. I'm familiar with the Island Malts generally though I haven't had any in years. Uncertain about the age, will check on that.

[Brisko]

That doesn't surprise me. Bunnahabhain strikes me as a very good foundational malt for a blend: sweet, malty, and salty, and a great background for the peatier malts to play off of. It doesn't take a lot of peated malt to leave a significant mark on a blend.

[TomH]

Returned from a cruise with 2 bottles of Johnnie Double Black and 1 bottle of Glen Elgin (Haven't tried it before, but I loved Compass Box Double Single and it's the malt half of it)

Tom