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From: Pip on 8 Dec 2009 19:43 In article <hfmf43$5qs$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Catman says... > > 'Hog wrote: > > <snip> > > On a balance of price, colour, smell and taste then Lagavulin 16 y/o > > can't be beaten. > Generally gets my vote in the single malt. SWMBO is rather partial to it > as well, which in nice on one level and costly on another :) Look at the quotes: "This is undoubtly the King of Islay Malts! I have tried them all, and this just beats Laphroaig and Lagavulin (both excellent): - Try the 17 year-old!" Note - "Try the 17-year-old!" "Stonking base-level Islay " Note - "Base-level". I know - really, I know ... you've tried them and you know too ... the 16y/o is nice. Very nice - sweet, tamed, enormous ... but go the further 10 years, man - sweeter, not so caged, just an explosion of taste on the tongue, the mouth, the digestive tract - and then it lights a FOAD peat fire in yer belly. Yes, it is /expensive/ but it is *so* worth it for the trickling quality as you swallow and savour the fineness that the angels haven't had yet. Single malts are all the same in one respect - the older, the better (much like blokes, really) as they get sweeter, more powerful and longer in the afterglow. Quality will out. > > > But the price has gone a bit silly recently which intensely annoying. > > Hasn't it just. There's nothing cheap that's worth having. Women or whisky - you have to pay for what you want. -- Pip, the "Mechanical Nightmare" (tm Bonwick Major)
From: Catman on 9 Dec 2009 02:45 Pip wrote: <snip> > > I know - really, I know ... you've tried them and you know too ... the > 16y/o is nice. Very nice - sweet, tamed, enormous ... but go the > further 10 years, man - sweeter, not so caged, just an explosion of > taste on the tongue, the mouth, the digestive tract - and then it lights > a FOAD peat fire in yer belly. Yes, it is /expensive/ but it is *so* > worth it for the trickling quality as you swallow and savour the > fineness that the angels haven't had yet. I am tempted to spunk some of my redundancy on this. I cannot find a 26 yo one though. What's it actually called. > > Single malts are all the same in one respect - the older, the better > (much like blokes, really) as they get sweeter, more powerful and longer > in the afterglow. Quality will out. >>> But the price has gone a bit silly recently which intensely annoying. >> Hasn't it just. > > There's nothing cheap that's worth having. Women or whisky - you have > to pay for what you want. Oh of course. The thing that gets me is the huge difference in price from different suppliers. The only reason I don't keep 16 all the time is that we tend to run out before the more every day stuff, and then I need to buy mroe. -- Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3 Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply) 116 Giulietta 3.0l Sprint 1.7 GTV TS 156 V6 2.5 S2 Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see. www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk
From: Alex Ferrier on 9 Dec 2009 06:08 Pip wrote: > > Single malts are all the same in one respect - the older, the better > (much like blokes, really) as they get sweeter, more powerful and longer > in the afterglow. Quality will out. Hmm, I'm more of the opinion that they are much like most such luxury items; wine, hifi equipment, watches, you name it. There is a sweet spot beyond which it is rarely worth venturing. The law of diminishing returns. Anything much over 15 years is generally, IMO, an expensive snob trap. -- Alex BMW R1150GS MZ Saxon 301 DIAABTCOD#3 MSWF#4 UKRMFBC#6 Ibw#35 BOB#8 Windy's "little soldier"
From: DR on 9 Dec 2009 13:02 'Hog posted: >If I drink a bottle of Malt a year these days I'd be surprised and >mostly if I'm out drinking York ales. I was there myself a few weekends ago, and was pleasantly entertained by the fine selection of ales to be found. I'll be back sometime in the new year - I'll give you a shout beforehand. -- Darren GSF1200N K3
From: Catman on 9 Dec 2009 16:06
boots wrote: > On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 00:59:10 -0000 in uk.rec.motorcycles, Pip says: > >> In article <4b1ebdfc$0$2480$db0fefd9(a)news.zen.co.uk>, 'Hog says... >> >>> To Pip and others I might point out that Oddbins have a rather good >>> Ardbeg offer on >>> www.oddbins.com/products/productDetail.asp?productcode=10950 >> Pfft. 10 y/o might be acceptable, even remarkable to the masses - but >> you should know that the older it gets, the better it is. Ten years >> ain't SFA to a good single malt. > > Passing through a duty free I decided to take a small risk and buy the > 18yr old Glenfiddich, what a very different beast to the unremarkable > 10yr old. Shame it didn't last that long. > It's Glenfiddich, what did you expect. -- Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3 Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply) 116 Giulietta 3.0l Sprint 1.7 GTV TS 156 V6 2.5 S2 GT 3.2 V6 Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see. www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk |