The OCUK Whisky (and Whiskey) review thread

dl8860 said:
If you like the Laphroaigs then either Cask Strength 10yr or Lore are very good offerings.

Kilchoman is definitely worth a go, not quite as peaty as the above but a nice smokey profile and they do some very interesting bottlings.

Ledaig I agree has a bit of je ne sais quois, some really nice earthy funk. Got a bottle of this on the go at the moment which is very nice
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Ledaig 2008 TWB 11 yr. Bottled by The Whisky Barrel. This is the 700 ml from 2008. The strength of this whisky is 54.4 % Vol. A bottle from Tobermory
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Yeah can be had at a good price. In my experience a much more 'vegetal' peat rather than the big smokey hits you get from Laphroaig, Lagavulin etc. Worth a go, but quite different.
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Absolutely agree. Some of the Octomore's from Bruichladdich/Port Charlotte are so peaty that I've known a bottle has been opened from the other end of the bar! Has anyone tried them here? Mental haha :D
 
Ollie83 said:
Absolutely agree. Some of the Octomore's from Bruichladdich/Port Charlotte are so peaty that I've known a bottle has been opened from the other end of the bar! Has anyone tried them here? Mental haha :D
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I’ve had a 258PPM Octomore on a warehouse tasting at the distillery. Quite peaty as you’d imagine but a wonderful dram.
ATM I’m drinking a HP CS Kilkerran (Batch 8) and am very much enjoying it. I think it can still be bought and would recommend a bottle as its such a well crafted whisky which can be tweaked to just how you’d like it whilst not breaking the bank.
 
Barry Smalley said:
I’ve had a 258PPM Octomore on a warehouse tasting at the distillery. Quite peaty as you’d imagine but a wonderful dram.
ATM I’m drinking a HP CS Kilkerran (Batch 8) and am very much enjoying it. I think it can still be bought and would recommend a bottle as its such a well crafted whisky which can be tweaked to just how you’d like it whilst not breaking the bank.
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I'll have a look at that. Highland Park has done some heavily peated, for them, releases lately. I love the subtle hints from their usual bottlings.
 
Ollie83 said:
Absolutely agree. Some of the Octomore's from Bruichladdich/Port Charlotte are so peaty that I've known a bottle has been opened from the other end of the bar! Has anyone tried them here? Mental haha :D
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The Octomore 10.3 is actually what turned me onto Whiskey. Never really took a shine to it before despite my Dads insistence. He forced the Octomore on me one evening and it was so intense and different that I was intrigued. It gave my palate context for everything else and I've not really looked back since. Unfortunately as a result it's become a very expensive favorite and I've still never brought a bottle for myself, thankfully the local Whisky bar in brum always has a bottle to hand. £13 a dram though :o
 
ArcticHeron said:
The Octomore 10.3 is actually what turned me onto Whiskey. Never really took a shine to it before despite my Dads insistence. He forced the Octomore on me one evening and it was so intense and different that I was intrigued. It gave my palate context for everything else and I've not really looked back since. Unfortunately as a result it's become a very expensive favorite and I've still never brought a bottle for myself, thankfully the local Whisky bar in brum always has a bottle to hand. £13 a dram though :o
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Yeh they are steep, if you look up facebook groups, sometimes they do bottle splits and you can pickup some samples for cost price plus postage.
 
Barry Smalley said:
I’ve had a 258PPM Octomore on a warehouse tasting at the distillery. Quite peaty as you’d imagine but a wonderful dram.
ATM I’m drinking a HP CS Kilkerran (Batch 8) and am very much enjoying it. I think it can still be bought and would recommend a bottle as its such a well crafted whisky which can be tweaked to just how you’d like it whilst not breaking the bank.
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I loved my Kilkerran Heavily Peated, think I had batch 5. I've never had a bottle improve so much over time, at the start it was a 5/10, near the end I could have been persuaded to give it a 9/10, it was gorgeous.
 
Off north again next week. Heading to Nethy Bridge, so close to lots of Speyside distilleries.
As well as a visit to the Whisky Castle I'd like to get a Google from a distillery. Visited Glenallachie last time, any recommendations?
 
DFP123 said:
Do Scottish Whiskeys truly taste better? Need to buy as a gift
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Not always. Scotch whisky can be fantastic, it can also be awful. It depends on many things.

The same applies to whisky from all around the world - Japan, Sweden, Wales, India, Taiwan etc.

Irish whiskey can be really good or really poor too.

Are you looking for help picking a gift?
 
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