Single Malt Scotch

pilotrunner

pilotrunner

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#1
Had a department head on an old squadron introduce me to them 20 years ago in various ports around the world. Just got back into the tasting game.

Hit on an old Dalwhinnie 15 the other day (digging the honey/smoke flavor).
Highland Park 12
Glenmorangie 10
Springbank 10

Anyone else mind a mellow malt? What are your favs?
 
#2
pilotrunner said:
Anyone else mind a mellow malt? What are your favs?
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My wife and I went through a phase years ago. Tried quite few, pretending to like it more than we really did. But one of them really stood out and I can still call up the delicate flowery note in my memories:

Dalwhinnie :D
 
#3
Port finished Glenmorangie has to rate up there.
My wife doesn't drink Scotch but loves the nose on Ardbeg 10 - a drop or two in a snifter will last her an evening|!
I like all the Islay Malts - none of them are exactly mellow :rolleyes:
The MacAllan range has to be a good place to start for a mellow range of flavours.
 
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#5
i don't care for any of the islay malts myself. too peety. my favorite, with the few i've had, is Oban 14.
 
#6
DNEchris said:
The MacAllan range has to be a good place to start for a mellow range of flavours.
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^^ That, right there. Some years ago, my brother bought me a bottle of 18 y/o Macallan - loved the molasses flavor. Never made it to the tax bracket where I could afford the 21 y/o :)

A nice side benefit of being a Scotch drinker is that the rest of my family hated it - so I could leave a bottle at my brothers house and it'd be there when I returned some months later. Can't say that about vodka or rum :)
 
#7
I love the rortin' snortin' young, peaty Islay whiskies myself...Lagavulin 12 cask strength, Laphroaig 10 cask strength, Port Charlotte PC8, Ardbeg Uigeadail and the like.

However I can get with the mellower ones as well - Bunnahabbhain 18 is a fantastic dram, Glenlivet Nadurra has a great bourbon vanilla aspect and I am also really liking the Laddie Classic 10 Edition_01 recently.

For some reason I don't really take to finished whiskies a whole lot, the finish often seems like it's a distraction from what's really going on.
 
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#9
I have a bottle of the Glendronach 12 yo in my stocks, tried the 18yo (I think) as well, both very good.

I also have at the moment
Jura Superstition
Auchentoshan Springwood
Talisker (just a drop left so nursing that one)
Glengoyne 12yo
I also have a couple of good every day supermarket branded single malts, just as good as the expensive stuff, but without the distillery name on the bottle
May even have a dribble of Laphroaig left

For Bourbon I have Woodforde Reserve. Damned expensive here, so I only buy it duty free in the US and then drink it very slowly.

Plus I get to go on regular trips to Scotland with work :)
 
#11
I'd forgotten about my Balblair, 2001, bottled 2012. Nice highland.
 
#14
Highland Park, The Glenlivet, Glenfarclas and like inakilt, Laphroaig all do it for me. Not tried Lagavulin, but its next on my list now.

Also have a 34 year old Armagnac (bottled 2011) in the cupboad too. Oaky, peaty, with a bit of toffee and a long, mellow finish... but thats a different story!
 
#15
The Laphroaig 10 won a blind taste testing I read about in the NYT a year or so ago. Beat out several much priceier and older competitors. I have an inch+ left in a bottle of Glenmorangie high test I bought at the Duty Free shops as I left London in 1998. The most I have ever paid for a bottle of anything and I treasure it.
 
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