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Woodford Reserve at £22 on Amazon Deal of the Day

Looking to buy a friend a decent bottle of Scotch around the £100 mark. Could anyone recommend something? He's quite good in that he seems like anything when it comes to taste.

Glenfarclas 21 - £85

https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/2068/glenfarclas-21-year-old

Meant to be a reply to @jakemcree

Looks great, thank you

Exactly what ChasnotRobert suggested. It's a belter.

Got a bottle of Balblair 1999 for Christmas. It's very nice but will have to wait a while...

Planning to do a bourbon tasting with a few friends to expand our horizons beyond whisky. Everyone is going to throw in some cash and we'll buy a few bottles with some different characteristics to learn a bit about styles ect.

Could I get some recommendations for 3-4 bottles in the £30-50 each region?

Bourbon? I really don't think you're really going to get huge variation between the distilleries. So much of the process is homogeonous with not much space for individuality: namely the single distillation of spirit and the use of new barrels.

At that range Woodford Reserve, Single Barrel Jack and a nice Evan Williams, maybe the Makers Mark 46 or the Elijah Craig offerings.

If you can stretch to the Balcones you will get something very different: they do a seek to do something very different and it's very good. Price is a reflection of that. Pappy van Winkle if you win the lottery.

compare different bourbon and rye whiskys.
surely not as much variety compared to scotch, but still worth a tasting imo.

i can really recommend Bulleit bourbon, bakers 7, sazerac rye and bookers.

Royal mile whiskies near holborn has evan Williams single barrel 8 year old for £38 which seems like a pretty damn good starting point. On that note for anybody whose interested the kilkerran releases including the 12 year are great. Enough so that I've stocked up on 2 bottles a piece of the 12 and 8 cask strength.

Yeah, it's not bad at it's pric epoint. However Aberlour 12 is considerably better, and is regularly available at a cheaper price than the 10 if you check the prices in the big supermarkets. I've bought it for £27 at Asda.

Bookers is my go to bourbon

This made me laugh. A fucking amazon dash button to instantly re-order bottles of whisky.

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Haha. Do they make one for Bells?

So much for all the lowball offers I had for my bottle of Macallan Gran Reserva. I decided to put it along with the other bottles of malts into an auction, so far the Macallan has reached its £2k reserve, just hoping there are a few more bids before the auction ends.

Bulleit.
Is it nice?

Rye? yes. Bourbon is OK but Rye is better

Life is good.

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rye is lovely

MaCallan seems to be a good investment at the minute, their Folio range pretty much doubles in price as soon as you buy it (at retail price that is)

Just about finished my bottle of Blue Label given to me for Christmas a couple of years ago. Think I need to replace it. Not immediately, though. How low can I hope to go? Am traveling a bit this year, or what are the ad hoc or Black Fri discounts on Amazon like?

EDIT: £134 on Amazon now (claiming a reduction of £30). Good? Likely to be like that for a while? Or better at some point?

What's the Octomore like? I've still got a dozen bottles of my single cask Bruichladdich left, but a bit of variety would be good.

Seems to be the choice of the investor at the moment. The Macallan's now at £2300, that should buy a nice amount of bike kit

It's really good, as it's only a 5 year old it's pretty feisty but the high phenolic nature needs a spirit with a bit of character. If you like peat you'll dig it but there's a lot of other things going on such as sweetness and dried fruit, kind of like you usually find in highland whisky. I've got a couple of different editions and they all have there own characteristics. I'd love them to do an 8 or 10 year old version although I think anything older than that wouldn't be worth it.