Which Water of Life Did You Purchase Today?

[JamesW]

Picked up a Bunnahabhain 12 ($37), another Black Bottle ($15), and a 1.75 L of Ballantine's Finest for $19.50!

[rmallen]

Finally found Laphroaig 18 at one of the local liquor stores. At 69.97+tax here in Michigan, I could not pass it up. The same price as the Laphroaig 15 it replaced...and 3 years older, 48% vs 43% abv, and non-chill filtered. A great deal but I bet that price won't last, especially when I see the prices elsewhere.:bigeyes:

I have too many bottles open right now, so I think I will bunker this one until I finish the bottle of Laphroaig 15 currently open on my bar. I'll save the last dram or two for a side by side tasting.

[JamesW]

Finally found Laphroaig 18 at one of the local liquor stores. At 69.97+tax here in Michigan, I could not pass it up. The same price as the Laphroaig 15 it replaced...and 3 years older, 48% vs 43% abv, and non-chill filtered. A great deal but I bet that price won't last, especially when I see the prices elsewhere.:bigeyes:

I have too many bottles open right now, so I think I will bunker this one until I finish the bottle of Laphroaig 15 currently open on my bar. I'll save the last dram our two for a side by side tasting.

[ACDetroit]

SO it arrived today and I am now the owner of a case of Laphroaig 18. Doing the side by side tonight.

AC

[AVB]

Hazelwood Reserve

Janet Sheed Roberts was the last surviving grandchild of Wm. Grant founder of Glenfiddich and Balvenie. A special bottling of 20 yo 105 proof Glenfiddich was given to Grant employees and "friends" for her 100th birthday. That was the Centennial Reserve. For her 105th birthday another special bottling of 15yo Kininvie, the first single malt bottling of that distillery ever, was bottled as at 105 proof. Again, this was only for employees and "friends". Finally for Janet's 107th birthday a limited edition of 500 bottles of Kininvie was made available at Heathrow's new Terminal 5. That is the Hazelwood Reserve a 17 yo 105 proof sherry casked bottling. Probably not to many complete sets of the triplets in the world but I have one

A special thanks to MichaelPCo and scthornton for their help in acquiring some of the above. I couldn't have done it without them.

[JamesW]

Wow, what a fantastic and rare collection. Will you taste or is the set only for display?

[JamesW]

SO it arrived today and I am now the owner of a case of Laphroaig 18. Doing the side by side tonight.

AC

Let me know if it's worth the extra bucks over the Lap QC or CS.

[greenman]

Hey, AVB nice purchase!!:bigeyes:

[AVB]

I have another Hazelwood 105 open at the moment, the others probably won't be opened.

[unclebunk]

I have another Hazelwood 105 open at the moment, the others probably won't be opened.

[SMOWK]

A bottle of Jameson Gold Reserve was tossed to me while working on some computers at one of the hotels I work for. I guess I didn't actually purchase it.

[JamesW]

A bottle of Jameson Gold Reserve was tossed to me while working on some computers at one of the hotels I work for. I guess I didn't actually purchase it.

[JamesW]

Picked up a White Horse, JWB, Caol Ila 12, Talisker 10. All favorites, never tried the White Horse before but I'm giving the blends a go these days after all our talk of them.

[AVB]

My Kilchoman Inaugural release came yesterday from France. I was too late in putting in my order when it actually was released and so had to hit the secondary market. Only paid a 50% premium which wasn't bad considering it is going for double or more when you can find it.

[JamesW]

Picked up a Laphroaig QC to replace one that's about to die.

[boss302]

I have another Hazelwood 105 open at the moment, the others probably won't be opened.

[AVB]

The 105 reminds me of the Balvenie Founder's Reserve 10 only a bit more citrus. There is very little if any Sherry presence even though it was supposedly Sherry finished. Besides the fact that it is the first single malt bottling of Kininvie there really is nothing special about it. I've heard that the 107 is better but I'm not going to open mine anytime soon to find out.

[Megawatt]

Picked up my first Auchentoshan 12 today. I'll post some thoughts later on.

[boss302]

I picked up a bottle of Laphroaig 18-year today for a little under $60 at the local state store. At a healthy 96 proof, it seemed like a much better buy than the Lagavulin 16.

I haven't cracked it open yet, but I'll give a detailed review when I do.

[AVB]

Shopper's Vineyard is having a sale on Ardbeg Airgh Nam Beist for 40% off. I jumped on a pair of them. Yes, they will ship to PA.

[JamesW]

I picked up a bottle of Laphroaig 18-year today for a little under $60 at the local state store. At a healthy 96 proof, it seemed like a much better buy than the Lagavulin 16.

I haven't cracked it open yet, but I'll give a detailed review when I do.

[MrAtomic]

Shopper's Vineyard is having a sale on Ardbeg Airgh Nam Beist for 40% off. I jumped on a pair of them. Yes, they will ship to PA.

AVB,

Thanks very much for the tip. I recently turned up a bottle of Ardbeg Corryvreckan that I like, but don't love. Well, actually it's terrific but I'm not sure it's twice as tasty as an Ardbeg 10. I'm going to give the Airigh Nam Beist a try and see how it compares.

[ErichPryde]

AVB,

Thanks very much for the tip. I recently turned up a bottle of Ardbeg Corryvreckan that I like, but don't love. Well, actually it's terrific but I'm not sure it's twice as tasty as an Ardbeg 10. I'm going to give the Airigh Nam Beist a try and see how it compares.

according to Chu'Wuti, there are two distinct bottlings of Corryvreckan. One is earth-shattering and ridiculously incredible, the other one is solid, good, and wholesome... but not a devestating earthquake of peat on your palate.

I was actually considering grabbing a bottle of Airigh Nam Beist for my mom, but now that she is a member here, she will probably see this without my help. We'll see. I think that might be a peat-monster I'll like.

[hangten]

I was able to pick up a bottle of Highland Park 18 and Oban DE 1993 with my Binny's coupon!

[The Boozer]

On the advice of Oscar - Laphroaig 18 yr. $69 is pretty tough to beat for a 18 year old single malt.

Tim