We’re about to find out 
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And there were lads raving on social media some years ago about owning bottles of Powerscourt 21yo… The distillery was not even three years in operation at the time. The ‘Powerscourt’ 21yo is Bushmills distillate.
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Sure that’s the same with all these new Irish ones. A bottle of Cooley distillery stuff with a different label and the price jacked up
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Proper Ponzi scheme and lads sniffing flutes and drams pretending they know what they’re on about. Do the Waterford lads claim to have different whiskeys from different fields on the one farm? 
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They have one with John Mullane’s tears mixed in and one with Dan the Man’s.
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There’s nothing wrong with sniffing flutes in this day and age
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I just paid 26 British quid for a litre of powers. It would be a magnificent whiskey at three times the price.
Building these visitor centers seems to have undone a lot of them. That place they built in Fossa is ridiculously big.
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That was only under construction I think ? Or had it opened ?
All these supposed sharp business minds investing on these over the last decade and look at them now. Powerscourt distillery gone too and the Slazenger family put €25m into it, it was producing Fercullen. That never took off.
Waterford can’t find a buyer either
Serious blindsided punch to @TheUlteriorMotive there
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We all partied.
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Pretty sure it was opened. Stayed that direction a couple of years ago and there was ads for the restaurant there. They probably paid a fortune to some business consultants to come with the plan. Look at this like, completely OTT
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From Aeneas MacDonald’s Whisky (1930). Highly interesting, I think, to see what George Malcolm Thomson (his real name) considered the 13 best whiskies up to that time.
Back in the 1990s into the 2000s, I loved the standard 15yo Longmorn. Also remember drinking a bottle of Royal Brackla and really rating it. Same for Balmenach, Glen Grant, Smith’s Glenlivet (as bottled by Gordon & MacPhail) and Linkwood. All consostently very good to brilliant.
Think I drank Glenburgie a couple of times but have no strong memory of its taste. I drank the ‘Flora and Fauna’ Glenlossie and remember liking it. Drank Cardhu quite a few times – Lyme Regis’ the Harbour Inn stocked it – but those drops of standard Cardhu struck me as light and unmemorable.
Clynelish has always been superb. And Macallan and Talisker have always been a classic (though I found 10yo Macallan cloying).
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AMacD/GMT says the four best distilleries on Islay of the ten then working there – Lochindaal and Malt Mill have long gone – are Ardbeg, Caol Ila, Lagavulin and Laphroaig.
You would still say the same… And make honourable mention of Port Ellen.