The OCUK Whisky (and Whiskey) review thread

of to spa for the f1 in a few weeks me and a pal both love our whisky, every year we have been (past 7) we have just bought over there which seems to be jonnie walker red label, its ok after a few beers.

This year we are taking a bottle each of something decent. my Usual tipple is JD Single, Glenfidich green 12 yo and a bit of jura.

Anything that will send the ball out the park? under 60 quid?
 
Regy53 said:
of to spa for the f1 in a few weeks me and a pal both love our whisky, every year we have been (past 7) we have just bought over there which seems to be jonnie walker red label, its ok after a few beers.

This year we are taking a bottle each of something decent. my Usual tipple is JD Single, Glenfidich green 12 yo and a bit of jura.

Anything that will send the ball out the park? under 60 quid?
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I took a bottle of Ardbeg Uigeadail to Le Mans this year. That went down well.
 
Regy53 said:
of to spa for the f1 in a few weeks me and a pal both love our whisky, every year we have been (past 7) we have just bought over there which seems to be jonnie walker red label, its ok after a few beers.

This year we are taking a bottle each of something decent. my Usual tipple is JD Single, Glenfidich green 12 yo and a bit of jura.

Anything that will send the ball out the park? under 60 quid?
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Lagavullin 16 is my go to around that price now but more peaty than the ones you mention.
 
Regy53 said:
of to spa for the f1 in a few weeks me and a pal both love our whisky, every year we have been (past 7) we have just bought over there which seems to be jonnie walker red label, its ok after a few beers.

This year we are taking a bottle each of something decent. my Usual tipple is JD Single, Glenfidich green 12 yo and a bit of jura.

Anything that will send the ball out the park? under 60 quid?
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Based off your usual tipples I'd try a balvenie 12yr doublewood.
 
Went to my mates 40th at SMWS (Scots Malt Whisky Society) in London on Saturday.
They have their own bottlings from the majority of distillers and have a dozen or so new releases every month. You need to be a member to attend their events but in this case it was a private event.
Each bottle has a cask number (eg. 58.25) the 1st part being the distillery (I forget the 2nd part) and a description of what they think sums it up, usually only a few words. Everything is at cask strength.
So, my drinks list was (pretty much all bourbon cask)

So a few releases from the past couple of months;

58.25 - Tantalising and Teasing - Strathisla (Chivas Regal) 12yr
64.104 - Oat Cuisine - Mannochmore 9yr
73.138 - Sweet Memories of Autumn - Mortlach 12yr
58.24 - Melts in Your Mouth - Strathisla 9yr
13.58 - Remains of the Earl Grey - Dalmore 10yr

And then I started picking my own from the hundreds of options they have (I've forgotten one though as I forgot to take a pic of the bottle)

35.207 - Pine Nuts on Baked Apple - Glen Moray 22yr
37.61 - Refreshing and Relaxing - Cragganmore 29yr
76.137 - Complete Nirvana - Mortlach 30yr

A great night out and spoilt for choice.
 
Any good deals at the moment? Looking to stock up, something around the £30-40 mark. Prefer Speyside style, no peat/smoke as I just taste that as too medicinal. Was debating trying something Irish as I love anything triple distilled (like Auchentoshan).
 
Scam said:
Any good deals at the moment? Looking to stock up, something around the £30-40 mark. Prefer Speyside style, no peat/smoke as I just taste that as too medicinal. Was debating trying something Irish as I love anything triple distilled (like Auchentoshan).
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some of my recents:

Tomatin legacy - very easy drinking, smooth and nice aftertaste. new top ten fav of mine now.
Penderyn legend - not bad, better than the penderyn original i think, nicer with a drop of water.
Scapa Skiren - now this was nice. little peaty but not to much as i don't like peaty whiskeys, will try the other scapas next that are more expensive.
balvenie - caribbean cask - my favourite, hadn't got that for ages as out of stock.
 
Should have added, prefer oak casks for the vanilla'y flavours, over sherry casks. I think I tried a Tomatin which was crazy-sweet. Not to my taste if I'm honest.

GlenAllachie 12 sounds nice (just popped up on the news page of my local whiskey shop)
 
Picked up a bottle of Elijah Craig Small Batch, makes a damn good Old Fashioned


Regy53 said:
When you go to Frankfurt with your pal and find a whisky bar (was a hotel) without looking at prices... doh

The Laphroaig was very different, i bought a bottle of amazon on my return for £27.00 :(

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Laphroaig Quarter Cask is fantastic, one of my favourites
 
At the weekend I popped into a Tesco Express and wasn't sure but thought I'd seen Hibiki 12 on the shelf.. in a Tesco Express..
Not wanting to miss-out on a bottle discontinued in 2015 I went all the way back across town today to the same shop.
Sure enough Hibiki 12 was there on the shelf, at normal retail price! So I do what any self respecting whisky fan does and buy all their bottles. :D

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Amazing find. If you paid anywhere near retail release price for each of those, you could make your money back by just putting 1 into an auction.

I don't think you'll see many age statement releases from some distilleries in Japan soon.
 
bsoltan said:
At the weekend I popped into a Tesco Express and wasn't sure but thought I'd seen Hibiki 12 on the shelf.. in a Tesco Express..
Not wanting to miss-out on a bottle discontinued in 2015 I went all the way back across town today to the same shop.
Sure enough Hibiki 12 was there on the shelf, at normal retail price! So I do what any self respecting whisky fan does and buy all their bottles. :D

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Just went into the Tesco express over the road to check, no such luck. How much was retail price? Will you keep any do you think?
 
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