Peaty whiskeys take time but are worth the effort and the wait. They are not every day whiskeys for me but thats just my taste. But theres nothing more i like than to finish off a good nights whiskey drinking with a wee dram of some dirty smoky peaty hound of a scotch.
Another thing i like to do is nose the empty glass of a peaty scotch the next morning. That can be a real treat actually. Its totally different on the nose, gives you another angle on it and usually something totally unexpected.
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Like a small puke ?
Snap. Wise statement, in my view.
Is this thought not a metaphor for a sustainable long term romantic relationship?
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Black Bush 26 euro in Tesco
Someone just kindly gave me a litre bottle of Lagavulin 16 – as a gesture for a bag of wild mushrooms picked this afternoon. Hopefully a good omen for next Sunday’s result. Hopefully a glass of cheer Sunday night…
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Who is this fool, there’s a real glut of blackberries in the offing…?
A nice Dicksboro clubman…
Method in the madness of picking mushrooms.
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Lovely mate. I want tipp to win though.
Is Lagavullin nice?
Some people prefer wild mushrooms
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Nice with ice. Peaty. My favourite whisky.
I think it is, more than nice – but Lagavulin is one of the real ‘Marmite’ whiskies. Islay and peaty and all the rest.
The first time I ever had Lagavulin was Easter 1993, when I went to visit then girlfriend’s home in Birmingham. Her parents liked talk and food and drink. So I fitted in grand, after a fashion. Late on, her father, of Scottish extraction, poured me some 16yo, with a sort of challenge in the way he handed me the glass. I genuinely liked the flavour, immediately, but I remember vividly the shock of drinking something that smelled like TCP and sticking plasters, the shock of tasting it and liking it.
After the weekend, the father dropped me down to the bus station. He was a Consultant in the University Hospital and told me, as we killed time before my coach, about being on duty, as a young doctor, on the night of the Birmingham pub bombings. “We parcelled bits of people into small bags,” he said.
Lagavulin is pretty austere, which I like. Does not have the roundedness and the approachableness of Laphroaig. Nor the depth of Ardbeg. Caol Ila 18yo is a serious drop in Islay vein, lemony and careless.
Lagavulin is probably second to Ardbeg. With me, any road. Ardbeg is glorious. But I do not know enough about the Bruichladdich distilled when Mark Reynier – the man who founded Waterford Distillery, of course – was running the Bruichladdich show.
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Are you in the Confession Box?
I’m not. It’s led to an interesting thread all the same.
The church would be a more popular institution
I’m below in Spanish Point
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I see Redbreast 12 won some award the other night as best whisky in the world. Any kudos in that award?