Longrow in Jim Murray's whisky bible 2007
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From: Colin Irvine on 5 Dec 2009 08:12 On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 12:32:38 -0000, Pip squeezed out the following: >In article <9rckh5dlo3vp4c4tbqd8kfrh91vfgol2ds(a)4ax.com>, Colin Irvine >says... > >> My current favourite is a 16-year-old Bushmills. Being whiskey it has >> no peat at all. > >Point of order, Sir. Not /all/ whiskey is peat-free: the Connemara is >peated: > >http://www.whiskymag.com/whisky/brand/connemara/whisky282.html Humph. Well I suppose my informant, at the Jameson Old Midleton Distillery, might not count them. -- Colin Irvine ZZR1400 BOF#33 BONY#34 COFF#06 BHaLC#5 http://www.colinandpat.co.uk
From: Pip on 5 Dec 2009 09:13 In article <vnmkh5tjpbp1sh7nj21buhb09iit2tjdav(a)4ax.com>, Colin Irvine says... > > On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 12:32:38 -0000, Pip squeezed out the following: > > >In article <9rckh5dlo3vp4c4tbqd8kfrh91vfgol2ds(a)4ax.com>, Colin Irvine > >says... > > > >> My current favourite is a 16-year-old Bushmills. Being whiskey it has > >> no peat at all. > > > >Point of order, Sir. Not /all/ whiskey is peat-free: the Connemara is > >peated: > > > >http://www.whiskymag.com/whisky/brand/connemara/whisky282.html > > Humph. Well I suppose my informant, at the Jameson Old Midleton > Distillery, might not count them. I don't count any of those infernal distaillations, those with the extraneous "e", myself, never having found one that I like. But Shirley, any fule kno that there's only one peated Irish. -- Pip, the "Mechanical Nightmare" (tm Bonwick Major)
From: Domènec on 7 Dec 2009 15:03 "doetnietcomputeren" <doesnotcompute(a)gmail.com> escribi� en el mensaje de noticias news:2009120511370591745-doesnotcompute(a)gmailcom... > On 2009-12-05 11:20:51 +0100, Colin Irvine <look(a)bottom.of.home.page> > said: > >> My current favourite is a 16-year-old Bushmills. Being whiskey it has >> no peat at all. > <tone of disgust> > "Bushmills? That's protestant whisky!" > </tod> > (I'm expecting Champ to pick this one up.) Scotland <-> Kafflicks?
From: zymurgy on 8 Dec 2009 15:29 On 4 Dec, 18:09, Jim <n...(a)0.0.0.0> wrote: > Domènec wrote: > > *That* 15 years old bottling does not appear, but there are some 10 y-o and > > a 14 y-o getting from 89 to 95 points. Murray's scale is in his very own > > words: > > > 85-89 Very good to excellent whiskies definitely worth buying > > 90-93 Brilliant. > > 94-97 Superstar whiskies that give us all a reason to live. > > 98-100 Better that anything I'eve ever tasted. > > > So I'm getting my bottle as Colin has been told. Hope someone can UR it to > > central London on jan 22/23. > > > Murray's opinions on Longrow usually include the words "peat" and "salty". > > Is it summat similar to, say, Caol Ila? The definitive salty peaty would be Highland Park. > The canonical peaty whisky would be Ardbeg. Err, Laphroaig shirley ? Paul.
From: Jim on 8 Dec 2009 15:34
zymurgy wrote: >> > Murray's opinions on Longrow usually include the words "peat" and "salty". >> > Is it summat similar to, say, Caol Ila? > > The definitive salty peaty would be Highland Park. > >> The canonical peaty whisky would be Ardbeg. > > Err, Laphroaig shirley ? Having tasted the whole lot of them back-to-back earlier this year, I reckon Ardbeg. YMMV of course. Scientifically, the peat smoke contains phenols, and these can be measured, so you get a list like this (numbers are in parts per million): Bunnahabhain (1�2) Bruichladdich (3�4) Springbank (7�8) Benromach (8) Ardmore (10�15) Highland Park (20) Bowmore (20�25) Talisker (25�30) Caol Ila (30�35) Ledaig (35) Lagavulin (35�40) Port Charlotte (40) Laphroaig (40�43) Ardbeg (55) Longrow (55) |