The Single Malt Scotch Thread

[Shanti2]

Not sure I saw this one GlenGoyne single malt mentioned - very nice and smooth (no water or ice to "kill it") Visited the distillery in Scotland - the preferred malt for Royalty to serve. No peat used in process - great taste!

[Coheed]

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Not sure I saw this one GlenGoyne single malt mentioned - very nice and smooth (no water or ice to "kill it") Visited the distillery in Scotland - the preferred malt for Royalty to serve. No peat used in process - great taste!
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+1 here, GlenGoyne makes an excellent scotch and the distillery tour is a must for anyone visiting Glasgow.
I'll be picking up a bottle on my visit there tomorrow!

[Shanti2]

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[quote name='Scotch Golfer' timestamp='1426920973' post='11184691']
Not sure I saw this one GlenGoyne single malt mentioned - very nice and smooth (no water or ice to "kill it") Visited the distillery in Scotland - the preferred malt for Royalty to serve. No peat used in process - great taste!
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+1 here, GlenGoyne makes an excellent scotch and the distillery tour is a must for anyone visiting Glasgow.
I'll be picking up a bottle on my visit there tomorrow!
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Is there golf in the plan? Safe travels! Kind of envious here!

[nogamejames]

If you visit a scotch distillery in Glasgow you have to play golf!

On to my question. My dad's birthday is coming up this weekend and we are both big scotch drinkers, I usually go over ice, he's a neat. I frequently buy 12 year Glenfiddich or glenlevit. I want to buy a "special" bottle for this weekend. Maybe a 15 or 18 year? Definitely no peat at all. 100$ range. Any suggestions?

[MtlJeff]

[quote name='nogamejames' timestamp='1427160944' post='11201915']
If you visit a scotch distillery in Glasgow you have to play golf!

On to my question. My dad's birthday is coming up this weekend and we are both big scotch drinkers, I usually go over ice, he's a neat. I frequently buy 12 year Glenfiddich or glenlevit. I want to buy a "special" bottle for this weekend. Maybe a 15 or 18 year? Definitely no peat at all. 100$ range. Any suggestions?
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If you drink a lot of Glenlivet and Glenfiddich you can't go wrong. I've had the 18yr old in both brands and they are very smooth and under 100$

How much is the Glenlivet 21? It's 150$ here so probably around 100 there....

[nogamejames]

I've never seen the 21, I will keep an eye out for it. Thanks.

[eagle1997]

If you visit a scotch distillery in Glasgow you have to play golf!

 

On to my question. My dad's birthday is coming up this weekend and we are both big scotch drinkers, I usually go over ice, he's a neat. I frequently buy 12 year Glenfiddich or glenlevit. I want to buy a "special" bottle for this weekend. Maybe a 15 or 18 year? Definitely no peat at all. 100$ range. Any suggestions?

 

i've recommended the balvenie caribbean cask more times than i care to count. unblemished record: i've never heard a single complaint about it. :)

 

note: being finished in old rum casks definitely makes this a sweeter scotch, yet it still has silky subtle flavor.

 

damn my mouth is watering just thinking about this scotch, and i have none in the cabinet.

 

[nogamejames]

That sounds incredible. It looks like its only 70$ or so a bottle too.... I might have to buy one for myself as well. Thanks for the input!

[eagle1997]

glad to help. i swear, balvenie should have me on their payroll with the number of times i've plugged/purchased their excellent products. #balvenie

another option: a slightly less sweet, and very unique scotch is the balvenie single barrel. 15 years in a sherry cask, individually numbered bottles, and each barrel slightly different than any other. i often refer to it as the caribbean cask's more stoic big brother. makes the similarly aged macallan taste like a cooking sherry by comparison.

[url="https://us.thebalvenie.com/our-range/single-barrel-15-aged-15-years"]https://us.thebalven...5-aged-15-years[/url]

[eagle1997]

now i'm really thirsty and my local is shut up for the night. at least i still have some good bourbon around here somewhere. just gotta remember: where did i hide it?

[Coheed]

Hi guys!
Here are a few pics from my visit to the Whiskey Shop in Manchester. Walked out with a nice bottle of Caol Ila 18.
On to Glasgow tomorrow!
Unfortunately no golf on this trip as they are short layovers but hope to have a few this summer.
Cheers!
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Coheed

[eagle1997]

if i was younger... richer.. handsomer... with better hair... led a jet-setting lifestyle... and had a scratch golf game... i still wouldn't be a cool as coheed.

nice pick up there big guy.

[Rock Chalk Jayhawk]

I'm going on a golf trip to Bandon Dunes on Sunday with my dad and a bunch of other guys from my club. Bought a bottle of the Glenmorangie Tusail for the trip as a gift to my dad. I know he will love it!

[Coheed]

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if i was younger... richer.. handsomer... with better hair... led a jet-setting lifestyle... and had a scratch golf game... i still wouldn't be a cool as coheed.

nice pick up there big guy.
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Hahahah, thanks eagle!

[Coheed]

Yessssss, finally made it home. Enjoying a couple fingers of Jura Superstition. Ya I've mentioned it before but...there is nothing I love more than coming home to my bed, wife, kids and a nice Superstition after a long time away from home.
Makes me wonder...what is your fave stiffy to come home to after a hard weeks work?

[nogamejames]

Make it " after a hard days work" and its glenlevit 12 year, bit quickly becoming the balveine suggested above its fantastic.

[MtlJeff]

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Yessssss, finally made it home. Enjoying a couple fingers of Jura Superstition. Ya I've mentioned it before but...there is nothing I love more than coming home to my bed, wife, kids and a nice Superstition after a long time away from home.
Makes me wonder...what is your fave stiffy to come home to after a hard weeks work?
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I actually prefer wine after a tough day, but the Balvenie Caribbean cask and older Glenlivet's (18 and 21) are really growing on me in terms of favorite scotches

The Jura Prophecy i really liked too but its less and less my style these days, as i move away from the peaty stuff

[Coheed]

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[quote name='Coheed' timestamp='1427766636' post='11249673']
Yessssss, finally made it home. Enjoying a couple fingers of Jura Superstition. Ya I've mentioned it before but...there is nothing I love more than coming home to my bed, wife, kids and a nice Superstition after a long time away from home.
Makes me wonder...what is your fave stiffy to come home to after a hard weeks work?
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I actually prefer wine after a tough day, but the Balvenie Caribbean cask and older Glenlivet's (18 and 21) are really growing on me in terms of favorite scotches

The Jura Prophecy i really liked too but its less and less my style these days, as i move away from the peaty stuff
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Yes, you have mentioned both and I have yet to try them. Alright, enough is enough...next finds are the prophecy and Caribbean cask!

[eagle1997]

regular day: auchentoshan 12
good day: lagavulin 16 or CC
bad day: double fisting grey goose on the rocks

[Coheed]

Eagle has me thinking...what's YOUR (everyone) gold standard.
I understand that not all scotches are alike and that we should try new scotches with open minds but...what is that one bottle that can't help but judge/compare all new scotches that you try?
I'm sitting at a bar looking over many bottle of really scotch. I've never tried Dalwhinnie, and I know that when I do; I'll be comparing it, in earnest, to Lauvalin 16.
So...what's your gold standard?

[eagle1997]

2011 Lagavulin Special Edition Cask Strength. The bottle that taught me to love smoke and peat and brine.

The bottle was a gift from a client, I hated it at first sniff/sip... And then, as luck and time and a comfortable leather chair made possible, I grew to like it... Then love it.

The bottle was gone too soon as I shared it with the other scotch aficionados in my family who went through a similar process of getting to know this challenging dram.

I've never tasted it's equal again.

[MtlJeff]

I'm still kinda a noob, the best I've has is still either the Caribbean cask or the Glenlivet 21

[Shanti2]

[quote name='nogamejames' timestamp='1427160944' post='11201915']
If you visit a scotch distillery in Glasgow you have to play golf!

On to my question. My dad's birthday is coming up this weekend and we are both big scotch drinkers, I usually go over ice, he's a neat. I frequently buy 12 year Glenfiddich or glenlevit. I want to buy a "special" bottle for this weekend. Maybe a 15 or 18 year? Definitely no peat at all. 100$ range. Any suggestions?
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GlenGoyne uses no peat -
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Eagle has me thinking...what's YOUR (everyone) gold standard.
I understand that not all scotches are alike and that we should try new scotches with open minds but...what is that one bottle that can't help but judge/compare all new scotches that you try?
I'm sitting at a bar looking over many bottle of really scotch. I've never tried Dalwhinnie, and I know that when I do; I'll be comparing it, in earnest, to Lauvalin 16.
So...what's your gold standard?
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GlenGoyne like I mentioned 21 y, no peat in the process - Smooth. The first and only one I enjoy.

[sefus12]

[quote name='Coheed' timestamp='1427766636' post='11249673']
Yessssss, finally made it home. Enjoying a couple fingers of Jura Superstition. Ya I've mentioned it before but...there is nothing I love more than coming home to my bed, wife, kids and a nice Superstition after a long time away from home.
Makes me wonder...what is your fave stiffy to come home to after a hard weeks work?
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For an everyday/week sipper, give me a glass of Macallan 12 or Balvenie 12 Doublewood and a nice cigar around a fire and I'm as happy as can be. For a special occasion/celebration/horrid week, give me Balvenie 21 yr with the cigar and fire. All is then right in the world. Cheers!

[Golffmyster]

If anyone is interested in a wonderful whiskey festival at the end of November each year combined with some wonderful golf in the south of Scotland, Dumfries. Please check out www.drambusters.com for £20-00 you get to sample over 400 different whiskey from all over Scotland from all distillers. This is what I came across the Tomatin distillery the 15,18 & 21 yr old are well worth a try. So between 11: 00 & 17:00 it's basically sample as much whiskey for as possible for 20 quid and vote on the best whiskey sampled, if you are brave to explain to the spouse the state you are in let alone the whiskey you have purchased and failed to smuggle in the drinks cabinet, bottles can be purchased at reduced costs and shipped if required. If anyone is interested I would be only to happy to help.

[eagle1997]

[quote name='Golffmyster' timestamp='1428076257' post='11276165']
If anyone is interested in a wonderful whiskey festival at the end of November each year combined with some wonderful golf in the south of Scotland, Dumfries. Please check out www.drambusters.com for £20-00 you get to sample over 400 different whiskey from all over Scotland from all distillers. This is what I came across the Tomatin distillery the 15,18 & 21 yr old are well worth a try. So between 11: 00 & 17:00 it's basically sample as much whiskey for as possible for 20 quid and vote on the best whiskey sampled, if you are brave to explain to the spouse the state you are in let alone the whiskey you have purchased and failed to smuggle in the drinks cabinet, bottles can be purchased at reduced costs and shipped if required. If anyone is interested I would be only to happy to help.
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this just made my bucket list. thanks for the info!

[Coheed]

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[quote name='Golffmyster' timestamp='1428076257' post='11276165']
If anyone is interested in a wonderful whiskey festival at the end of November each year combined with some wonderful golf in the south of Scotland, Dumfries. Please check out www.drambusters.com for £20-00 you get to sample over 400 different whiskey from all over Scotland from all distillers. This is what I came across the Tomatin distillery the 15,18 & 21 yr old are well worth a try. So between 11: 00 & 17:00 it's basically sample as much whiskey for as possible for 20 quid and vote on the best whiskey sampled, if you are brave to explain to the spouse the state you are in let alone the whiskey you have purchased and failed to smuggle in the drinks cabinet, bottles can be purchased at reduced costs and shipped if required. If anyone is interested I would be only to happy to help.
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this just made my bucket list. thanks for the info!
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Me too!

[Golffmyster]

Let me knows guys, anything I can do to help one man's bucket list gives me a great sense of well being , hopefully as much gratitude is reciprocated over this short life we live. On a separate note I have decided to mix kings honey and ginger lacquer with a dalmore 12yr & 3 cubes, washed down with malbeck 2011 red, wife's gone to bed bring out the cigar heavan

[Coheed]

A few shots from one of my favorite watering holes in Manchester; The Brittons Protection. One of the friendliest and most knowledgeable barkeeps I've had the pleasure to chat with.
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PS- the Port Charlotte is a fantastic scotch. Give a try sometime. Lots of peat so beware!

[Golffmyster]

Where in Manchester as we have an office in Didsbury, I can enjoy some[quote name='Coheed' timestamp='1428195670' post='11285347']
A few shots from one of my favorite watering holes in Manchester; The Brittons Protection. One of the friendliest and most knowledgeable barkeeps I've had the pleasure to chat with.
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PS- the Port Charlotte is a fantastic scotch. Give a try sometime. Lots of peat so beware!
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Where in Manchester, we have an office in Didsbury, always good to know where the whiskey selection is, but please don't tell me you enjoy Laphroig.