What Wee Dram are you enjoying now?

[The Boozer]

Glenfarclas 12 yr - 1st time. Much more salty and smokey than I expected and less sweet for a Speyside. Almost a little like HP or Old Pulteney. Still hints of sherry that give the whiskey good balance and very smoooth!! I like it. Definately on the buy list

TJ

[Megawatt]

Aberlour 10. One of the best values in single malt Scotch, at least around here. Very fruity with grape and cherry, plus minty overtones. With water, rich bourbon tones emerge. Amazing depth for the price.

[unclebunk]

Glenfarclas 12 yr - 1st time. Much more salty and smokey than I expected and less sweet for a Speyside. Almost a little like HP or Old Pulteney. Still hints of sherry that give the whiskey good balance and very smoooth!! I like it. Definately on the buy list

TJ

I love the Glenfarclas 12. If you like it now, wait until you've had it a few more times. It just seems to get better and better.

[Gov]

Glenfiddich 15 Solera. this whisky is sublime! So balanced, and so delicious!

[Megawatt]

Glenfiddich 15 Solera. this whisky is sublime! So balanced, and so delicious!

Agreed! A good value as well.

[Lost Pollito]

Fun thing about the fiddich 15 is the use of different wood. sherry, new oak, and bourbon barrels are used to age the malt. It's then combined into a giant wooden vat and married. The vat never goes below 50% fill. You end up with a complex and affordable 15yr malt. I hope ya'll get to try it at cask strength some time. Quite a delicious dram. :grin:

[ggilbertva]

Switched it up today and enjoyed a Balblair '97. Picked up pear on the nose. It was quite enjoyable and am glad I have a backup bottle in the bunker. As the weather turns, I start rotating some Highland Scotch and Irish Whiskey into my drinking routine. Not sure why I do this but the cooler weather prompts this addition.

[unclebunk]

Had a great flight of single malts last night. Started with two pours of Glenfarclas 10 which is really outstanding for its young age. Moved on to an older bottle of Dalmore 12 and finished the night with a hefty pour of Macallan 12. The latter tasted a tad "thin" after the Dalmore, but I was fairly well-oiled by that point, so it may have just been me and not the whisky. I was pleased to pick up two bottles of the Dalmore 12 for $28 recently, so I'll be enjoying them with some regularity this fall/winter.

I should mention that a friend gave me a bottle of Sheep Dip yesterday as a belated birthday present. I look forward to trying that tonight for the first time.

[Solomon2]

About a half-teaspoon each of JW Black, Green, and Gold. Green's my favorite so far.

[Gov]

About a half-teaspoon each of JW Black, Green, and Gold. Green's my favorite so far.

I concur!!!! No question!

[Megawatt]

Had my first glass of The Black Grouse tonight. Exactly as advertised: standard Grouse with some Islay malt thrown in.

[drrich1965]

Last night, a 28year old Strathmill from Duncan and Taylor, and a wee, wee dram of 12yo 1992 Old Malt Cask Ardbeg. Perhaps one of my least favorite of the 15 or so I have tried- lacks for complexity

[Chilled]

Duncan Taylors 30yr. Black Bull. Yummmmmy

[AVB]

Ohhh, I had a taste of that a few months ago. Quite nice and if there wasn't so much on my list I'd consider buying one.

Duncan Taylors 30yr. Black Bull. Yummmmmy

[loose proton]

making chili for halloween party and chili contest tomorrow. started with WT101, then Blantons, now Glen Garioch 8yo.

[boss302]

Well, this doesn't quite fit in with the theme of the thread, but...

... I'm a bartender at a hotel in south-central PA and the Director of Food and Beverage solicited my input on my bar's liquor selection...

... Long story short, we're getting Dalwhinnie 15, Glenmorangie LaSanta, Ardbeg 10, and Compass Box Oak Cross!!!!! :grin:

Technically, I can't drink while working... but that won't stop me from taking a tiny little sip of spirits I wouldn't otherwise be able to sample....

[Chilled]

Not technicaly a scotch, but, Nikka Black Malt. What a surprise from that little Island. Nice, smooth w/ smoke and some fruit.

[Megawatt]

I'd like to go on record saying that Whyte & Mackay Special is possibly the best entry-level blend I've tasted. It is smoother than most with a fuller body and better aroma and flavour. Honey, fruit, slight smoke, spice. It was a pleasant surprise.

[Lost Pollito]

I'd like to go on record saying that Whyte & Mackay Special is possibly the best entry-level blend I've tasted. It is smoother than most with a fuller body and better aroma and flavour. Honey, fruit, slight smoke, spice. It was a pleasant surprise.

I don't doubt it. They're great at soft balance. However, cutting Dalmore down to 80, with chill-filtering, I can't help but feel a tad sad. Dalmore at cask strength is exceptional. At 80 proof, and filtered, it feels like the soul has been robbed from us. Lets hope they don't steal Jura's soul as well.

[Lost Pollito]

So, I had Loch Dhu last night. I say, " It is horrible!!!!!". What say you? Caramel and Mannochmore. One of the worst ever. I enjoyed Mellort more than this poor. Really. Yet, I talk to people SEARCHING for it. Why? I love Mannochmore, but this was bad. It's my number 3 on worst evver.

[Gillman]

Auchentoshan 12 years old, from one of the three surviving Lowlands distilleries. Despite the three distillations and a relatively high distilling-out proof, the flavour has a pronounced barley note and melds well with the toasty wood effects from the cask. (I hadn't had a malt in a while and my first taste made me think of Colorado Whiskey which is made from all-malted barley albeit it is much younger and aged in new charred oak).

Classy stuff, soft and malty but with the pleasing lightness (relatively) of Lowlands whisky. It reminds me in a way of Buffalo Trace - both are roughly the same age and have a malty smooth palate.

I used to like single malt a lot and have (or had, again) a fair amount of experience with it. At one point, my palate changed and I preferred bourbon and straight rye, which probably is a permanent change. Still, I like returning to the whiskies occasionally of the countries whence whisky originated, hence my recent forays into some Irish and Scots whiskies.

I do still regularly drink my own Scotch blends, which themselves are probably 80% single malt (a wide range), but a blend and a single malt are two different things.

Gary

[Megawatt]

Auchentoshan 12 years old, from one of the three surviving Lowlands distilleries. Despite the three distillations and a relatively high distilling-out proof, the flavour has a pronounced barley note and melds well with the toasty wood effects from the cask. (I hadn't had a malt in a while and my first taste made me think of Colorado Whiskey which is made from all-malted barley albeit it is much younger and aged in new charred oak).

Classy stuff, soft and malty but with the pleasing lightness (relatively) of Lowlands whisky. It reminds me in a way of Buffalo Trace - both are roughly the same age and have a malty smooth palate.

I used to like single malt a lot and have (or had, again) a fair amount of experience with it. At one point, my palate changed and I preferred bourbon and straight rye, which probably is a permanent change. Still, I like returning to the whiskies occasionally of the countries whence whisky originated, hence my recent forays into some Irish and Scots whiskies.

I do still regularly drink my own Scotch blends, which themselves are probably 80% single malt (a wide range), but a blend and a single malt are two different things.

Gary

Auchentoshan 12 is quite good, though I had it right after Longmorn 16 so my palate was not so receptive to its subtleties.

[Gillman]

Longmorn 16 is excellent too, quite different I would say.

Gary

[MarkEdwards]

Cracked open, and poured a wee taste of ORVW 10 last night, to celebrate being out of the hospital. I didn't really like it - it tasted a bit medicinal.

So today I poured a taste of Glenrothes, a pour that I know I like, just to be sure my taste buds aren/t a bit screwed up. Nope - I still like the Glenrothes just fine. I will try the ORVW again at some later time, just to be sure, though.

[unclebunk]

Scored an Aberlour 12 on sale at the bargain price of $30 today! That's down from the regular price of $43, so I was psyched. Will have to hold off on drinking it until tomorrow night because I've got the Irishman 70 on deck for tonight.