About as much value as Hoggy’s player of the month award.
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I can feel the hurt from that post. Hugs pal 
I’m only messing kid.
D’Armada?
As it happens we had a couple over for dinner this week and the man of the house brought over a half bottle of Lagavulin. I’ve had it before but too long ago to remember. Agree it’s not as intense as Ardbeg but broader spectrum of flavors not being overpowered by peat. We did a blind tasting with Red Spot and got a drawn result.
Omen for the AI final possibly, another dead heat.
Si
Views on whisky as an investment?
Kinsale Spirits who make Kinsale Gin, have launched an EIIS scheme to begin their first whisky production.
In short
4k (min) investment
40% tax relief, 30% now and 10% in y5. So 1200 back from revenue end of yr so net cost 2800.
End of Y4 you can exit for 5100 or own one cask of whisky (250 litres?) which they will either store or bottle for you in your own brand. So for e.g. you could have it bottled as TFK finest etc.
What I am told is that assuming its not complete rubbish there is a ready market for these casks to say adare manor for example who would buy cask from you and sell as own brand…alternatively could be sold as a constituent of a blended whisky.
If it was decent you can pay an annual storage fee and they will mind the cask until you want it.
Anyone any experience of these schemes. Their gin is decent, and the promoters are reputable.
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Interesting… Had not had Lagavulin in a while. So my friend’s generosity was all the more pleasant.
Complaints about whiskey labelling lodged
Irish Whiskey Association claims trend damaging the reputation of the industry
Eoin Burke-Kennedy
The Irish Whiskey Association (IWA) has lodged several complaints with the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) about what it claims is mislabelling of whiskey products, a trend it says is damaging the reputation of the industry here.
One of the complaints is known to have been made against St Patrick’s Distillery in Douglas, Co Cork, which sells a number of whiskey and gin products internationally under the “St Patrick’s Distillery” label. When contacted, the company said it made no secret of the fact that it bought “new-make whiskey” from other distilleries and then aged the product in oak barrels by the sea.
“Our view is that the character and personality of a whiskey comes from the barrels it’s been matured in and the location where that ageing takes place,” the company’s general manager Cyril Walsh said.
“We don’t claim to be a distiller but the legal name of the company is St Patrick’s Distillery and our international trademark is St Patrick’s Distillery,” he said, noting that the company was primarily an exporter with growing sales in the US, China, Russia and Canada.
The FSAI said it was aware of the issue but was precluded by law from commenting.
Non-existent distillery
However, a spokesman for the IWA, the Ibec group that represents the industry, said there was no place in the industry for misleading labelling and marketing, particularly where it refers to a non-existent distillery.“We are aware of Irish whiskey brands on the market, both in Ireland and internationally, which prominently refer to a named ‘distillery’, where same is neither licensed or operational as an Irish whiskey distillery,” he said.
The IWA said the Irish whiskey industry had seen significant growth in the last decade “and this has been helped by premiumisation in the Irish whiskey category”.
“Premium Irish whiskeys are proving increasingly attractive among discerning consumers around the globe and this in turn is delivering significant value-add for the Irish whiskey industry,” the spokesman said.
“However, the greater trend toward premium Irish whiskeys is intrinsically linked to increased consumer demands for authenticity. Consumers are willing to pay a premium price to know where the product is made, by who and how,” he said.
Sales of Irish whiskey have soared in recent years. In the US they hit the $1 billion (€900 million) mark for the first time last year, which to nearly 4.7 million nine-litre cases. At the same time there has been a proliferation of so-called boutique whiskey brands amid an uptick in demand for premium products.
The IWA, which represents 40 companies in the Republic, said where guidelines on the labelling and marketing of Irish whiskey are not adhered to, “we require our members to amend such materials to avoid misleading the consumer”.
Sound.
Not that experienced about Japanese bottles. But nice drop, really nice drop. Not had in a good while – but certainly remember it in positive terms, from a tasting. An ‘inland’ whisky, if memory serves, leading on charm.
@anon7035031 knows more on Japanese front, I think. He might more recently have drank this Nikka?
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It’s a very nice blended whiskey, better than similarly priced Suntory imo.
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In honor of @anon7035031 's return home I bought a bottle of buffalo trace. A lovely bourbon.
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Yer man that writes 'the Whiskey Bible ’ reckons that’s the best distillery in the world.
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I know how to treat myself.
You don’t know how to treat anybody else though
It’s a pity they don’t have turf in kentucky, aside from the derby
I admire the way that you take care of everyone in you life, the four sock puppets and ten pigeons.
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I don’t think you’re in any position to be talking about socks considering you get a sock put in your mouth by everybody else every time you open it
And I’d say there are pigeons a lot more hygienic than you
So you oppose the idea that brevity is the soul of wit?