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True, but for £25/30 I'd always go for a single malt over a blend, but to each their own.
Another lesser known single malt which is quite light and smooth is the Springbank 10, they've got a distillers edition out which is really tasty too. yum.
you realise you can get 25yo blends... all the whisky is at least 25 years old. There are some very nice blends out there, don't dismiss it just cause it's not a single malt
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Well I don't own any NJS and have drank my fair share of whiskey ;)
I like blends for what they are-if I had genuinely tried a gorgeous one that beat single malts with a similar pricetag I'd buy it, of course, but fact is I haven't yet. When I have the cash for a nice bottle I go for a single malt (rarely anything over £30) You can say there's snobbery about it, sure, same with wine or anything-people like status and connosieurship, but I'm talking about taste vs value.
I'm not dismissing blends at all-25 year old blends? How much are they? I'm sure it tastes decent, but if it's the same price as a Laphroig 25 or Talisker 18 I'll go for them!
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you realise you can get 25yo blends... all the whisky is at least 25 years old. There are some very nice blends out there, don't dismiss it just cause it's not a single malt
That's the point I was trying (badly) to make. Maybe the old blends are more expensive because they are using older, rarer whisky?
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That's the point I was trying (badly) to make. Maybe the old blends are more expensive because they are using older, rarer whisky?
The fact is that if distilleries have anything really old/good in their store rooms in any kind of volume they aren't going to sell it at a cut price to a blender. That's why any old blends are really expensive, which is fine if that blend really tickles your trout, but if it doesn't then I'd be a bit gutted.
One whiskey I'd stay away from is Benromach-it's marketed as 'organic' and tastes like shit. The blend and the single.
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That's the point I was trying (badly) to make. Maybe the old blends are more expensive because they are using older, rarer whisky?
indeed, I went to the Whisky tasting in January was great fun and there were some really nice malts/blends and bourbons there and many many fucked up people. Quite eye opening as I'd dismissed blends previously to that
Might be worth a look for next year... riding home would be foolish
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The fact is that if distilleries have anything really old/good in their store rooms in any kind of volume they aren't going to sell it at a cut price to a blender. That's why any old blends are really expensive, which is fine if that blend really tickles your trout, but if it doesn't then I'd be a bit gutted.
One whiskey I'd stay away from is Benromach-it's marketed as 'organic' and tastes like shit. The blend and the single.
there's only one product that's organic, it's sub £30 and tastes like a good speyside imo well worth the money for a good easy drinker
Benromach do at least 10 different products and don't really have any experience of the others that I can remember
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The organic was well harsh I thought-pretty weak flavour too. And more expensive than a 12 year Aberlour. Which I like a lot.
I went to whiskey live in Glasgow... had to go with work but still managed to get absolutely trashed on ridiculously nice malts I could never afford otherwise-don't know if I could afford the 50 quid to do it again but a pretty amazing experience.
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£50??? wow I think the london one was about £10
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Stick with Monkey Shoulder. Not a massive fan of Bushmills - I much prefer Jameson's (18 y/o).
Monkey Shoulder* and the other Speyside distilleries are a great place to start. As you start you get into drinking whisky, your palate will naturally lean towards the sweeter varieties (Speyside) until you start to develop your own tastes. Some, however, jump into the deepend and have a natural affinity for the smokier/peatier varieties. Part of the fun is the tasting and learning where your sensibilities lie, and then watching them change over time.
Instead of blends, perhaps you can also start to look at Bourbons. Ex-bourbon barrels make up the most of the maturing casks in Scotland so you will find lots of common ground. My personal favourite is Woodford Reserve but the 13 y/o Rip Van Winkle is good too.
*Monkey Shoulder is done by the same people who do Balvenie, Glenfiddich and Hendrik's Gin. Well worth a visit to the distillery.
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Bought a bottle of Balvenie Doublewood (Speyside single 12 years old) on Friday, as a tenner off in local supermarche - jury is out on it, second taste last night was better, but it seems quite harsh to my (uneducated) palate. Also picked up a Glen Cairn whisky glass yesterday on the cheap, £3.....bargainous!
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I love it. It's like drinking a barbecue. I wouldn't call it a soothing, rainy-evening-in-front-of-the-fire kind of dram but I find it very rewarding.
unharmed - what's your impression of the Corryvreckan? I've got a bottle of Uigeadail on its last legs (loved it) and looking for the next one, and that bottle was on the short list.
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It just seems a bit like single malt = njs. If I like it I like it, I'm not going to enjoy it less because, oh noes, it's a blend.
Winning blends (overall is £400 a bottle! fsck that)..
http://www.whiskymag.com/awards/wwa/best_blended_whisky.php