[Closed] Recommend me a good Single Malt Whiskey

I don't know about UK prices but I do like Bruichladdich..

You shouldn't ignore Yamazaki either.. 🙂

I will second the Yamazaki-not scottish or 12yo but something different and worth a try

May I be bold and recommend a blend - Black Bull 12 year old is splendid!

was gonna say Bruichladdich, but was beaten to it,

Also poit dubh is excellent, may be a bit more than 40

If you like speyside, Mortlach is usually top notch.

http://www.masterofmalt.com/distilleries/mortlach-whisky-distillery/

mmmmmmmm.....

+1 for Yamazaki.

Balvenie Double Wood 12yo.
Macallan Fine Oak 15yo.
Auchentoshan 3 wood.

Could go on for a good while longer...

christ, just checked, poit dubh can be had for 30 quid now, im off to get some!

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Suntory?

What do we think of Lagavulin?

Point of order - whiskey is Irish, or maybe American. Whisky is Scottish. Scotch, even.

Spending £40 is going to get you an SLX whisky rather than a Deore one, so to speak.

Lagavulin is the mutt's nuts but it's very peaty - so if you like that sort of thing then fill your boots.

Balvenie Double Wood is a good shout.

Aberlour A'Bhunadh comes in at under £40 and is another cracker.

If you like it peaty - Laphroiag
If you don't - Highland Park

Need to spend a bit more for an XTR or XX whisky though. 😀

Currently have -

Glenmorangie - was on offer at Tescos a couple of weeks back. Nice and smooth
Monkey Shoulder - not a single malt but a blend of 3 single malts. Very nice indeed, again another smooth one
Ledaig- smokey and peaty

What kind of whisky do you like at the mo?

If you can get to the Glenkinchie distillery just south of Edinburgh, after the tour they let you prop the bar up and try different whiskys. The staff are excellent, really know their whisky. It's great, been twice and had to be dragged out by the wife at closing time twice. I always leave with a few bottles of homework!
I've been to a lot of distleries and this is the only one I've found that does this.

Currently really enjoying Edradour Caledonia. Not a big fan of Edradour generally, but this is superb

If you like peaty and can find a bottle, the Caol Isla 18 YO is sublime

Edit - agree it's whisky not whiskey if you are talking about Scotch

If you like it peaty - Laphroiag
If you don't - Highland Park

There's some far more pleasant ones TBH, IMHO. I much prefer Ardbeg (normal) or Ardbeg Uigeadail for the peaty side of things, it's somehow smoother and richer. Highland park is just "so so", I now use my 12YO as hot-toddy filler (much to the disgust of my scottish colleagues), it's a middle-of-the-road in every sence. Not unpleasant, but not striking. Probably good for a present to someone with little experience. Laguvlin and Talisker are nice, as is Jura.

Try the single malt [url= http://https://www.lfw.co.uk/diageo/flavourmap.html ]Flavour Map[/url] for ideas.

That would actually be https://www.lfw.co.uk/diageo/flavourmap.html 🙂

ardbeg 12yo is good, not had the more expensive ones but of all the malts I've had that has a great character.

tried laphroaig quarter cask courtesy of some firendly peeps on a bike tour a couple of weeks back and was drinking it neat quite happily. very nice indeed and not associated with the knicker-ripping legend that it and lagavulin share.

link FAIL 😆

Just noticed, if you extend your budget a wee bit you can get a 15YO Springbank for £41.95 [url= http://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/P-4688.aspx ]here[/url].

Springbank, even the 10YO, is a side-of-the-nose-tapping, OK-sign-with-the-fingers, not-a-lot-of-people-know-that 😉 connoisseur's whisky.

Highly recommended.

You need 3 to get the spectrum - so always keep in stock -

1) An islay (my fave Bowmore)
2) Highland Park - nicely in the middle (5 out of 10 peeps in a blind taste testing preffered this one, 3 preffered the below, 2 the above)
3)SOmething a bit Jey but still drinkable - Glenmorangie/Gelnkinchie/Glenfidich

that would be my strategy!

Kev

ooh, BTW, jsut tried a 65 y old Glengoyne (I think, we had had a few!), and my god that was the most spectacular drink ever.

My dad always said, being a very experienced whisky drinker fae Glasgow, that anything over 20years all start to taste too strong, with too much booze in it.

Bollox! It was F A B U L O U S. 😆

buggery expensive though 😥

Try some Dalwhinnie. You won't be disappointed.

StefMcDef - thats interesting, I'd tried that and wasn't too impressed. Maybe I was on an off day! Must try it again soon...

This whisky taste map is useful

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My other half liked the Dalwhinnie I bought him recently over Glenmorangie and Glenddicch. Eurgh I can't stand the smell of whiskey let alone the taste, would love to like it though!

StefMcDef - thats interesting, I'd tried that and wasn't too impressed. Maybe I was on an off day! Must try it again

I had a dram of it at the Loch Fyne whisky tent at Rockness a couple of years ago. The tent was closing on the last night, there was a double left in the bottle and the guy gave me it for the price of a single. Maybe gratitude impaired my judgement but I thought it was lush.

The 21YO Springbank is the dreamiest nectar of a whisky I've ever tasted.

Daffy > what do you like already?

Girlfiend bought me some Aberlour A'Bunadh for my birthday - it's lovely.

http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/product_range/product_range_12937.htm
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Mind you nnot a single malt but quite nice.

Only ever realy had Whisky when i lived abroad,and that was called
100 Pipers! and loved it
Any experts out there tried this and can recomend a simular tasting Whisky
cannot get 100 pipers in the UK 😥

Ben Baroch from Lidl - rebranded stock from a speyside distillery that closed down a few years ago. rather nice. £15

I had a very pleasant morning a couple of weeks ago tasting Benromach whiskeys - reopened distillery, first whiskeys just been released. only a 10year old, of different varities - or the REALLY expensive 40/50/60 year olds from the previous ownership

Classic STW - he asks for Scottish single malts and the first two replies recommend something Japanese and the third guy says buy a blend.

Any experts out there tried this and can recomend a simular tasting Whisky
cannot get 100 pipers in the UK

Try Kwik Save if they still exist. We sold that when I worked on the fags and booze counter at the Edmonton branch in the early '90s.

My Collection.... Hic.

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http://www.zooomr.com/search/photos/?s=awe&w=15397%40Z01&q=booze

One day I'll drink the lot....except the Advocat

Red - that an a 3200 Mazzer too? Someone's showing off...;-)

Good on you.

Thats about 180 bottles. 99.5% full and original.

chakaping Kwik Save went down in 2007 damn,

redthunder jeez that looks like a lot of bad tasting stuff there!
I guess it would taste ok after a few shots.

STW massif round to Red's for a pi55 up then?!

I am alarmed that someone actually drank the Southern Comfort though - to me it's as comforting as eating maggot infested dog turds. I have been VERY ill on it - never again.

Jack Daniels. Not a malt but scrummy!!!

See, if you're going to drink bourbon(*), you could drink a -good- bourbon instead of Jack Daniel's. I'd recommend Maker's Mark for starters.

(* - technically JD isn't a bourbon, it's a Tenessee Whiskey, but it's close)

Recently got a Madeira cask sprinkbank for about £35, nice wee dram!

I like Lagavulin DE, but this is a gift for somone else.

Well, what do they like?! (-:

Better yet, get 'em a bottle of Lagavulin, and if they go "urgh," you can ensure that it doesn't go to waste.

Another vote for Dalwhinnie here, Aberlour also very nice and both speysides, if you want an Islay its gotta be bunahabhain.

Me and the wife are at opposite ends of the spectrum, she's on the Jura 10.

It's for 2 of my 3 principle lecturers at uni, the 3rd is getting Vodka (well...he is Russian afterall) Possibly a Kaufman.

Highland Park, I visited the distillery last week, great whisky. Voted Spirit of the Year.

Another vote for Aberlour A'Bunadh.

Fantastically deep flavour. [url= http://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/P-160.aspx ]Some available here.[/url]

I agree Cougar, but Maker's Mark is a little spendy for my shallow pockets.

Is there a bad one?

I've yet to find one, and I have looked hard!

I was inspired...

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teachers.

check out royal mile whiskies . com for ideas

if in doubt.... Talisker 🙂

You can get some interesting non-distillery bottlings such as this [url= http://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/P-9183.aspx ]Macallan[/url] from the Whisky Exchange who also do some quite good deals

I'm a fan of Scapa myself, smooth, floral well rounded and very easy to drink. I frequent a shop in Tomintoul called the whisky castle, take a look at this place online. Amazing range of whisky, last time I left there hammered.

a nice wee dram is longmorn.40quid but its 15yr old i think but nice and smooth.glenrothes is another

Bruichladdich peat is nice went through a bottle recently lovely over ice

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I like the Welsh one.

Instead of buying 2 bottles of 10/12yo, buy one bottle of 18/25 yo and savour it.

[url= http://www.welsh-whisky.co.uk/ ]got to love the Welsh[/url]

you rang my Lord 😉

The Welsh stuff is just very nice, the English Whisky is crap though.

I have a couple of bottles of Provenance Distillery whisky - both very nice, limited edition smooth drinks. No idea on cost though as they were both presents.

I like the Welsh one.

My considered opinion of Penderyn is it'll be alright once it's finished.

As far as I know, only scottish people can call their whisky 'whisky' rather than 'whiskey' or in fact anything else they choose to use.

Scotland should sue Wales for that one.

My English sister in law bought me a bottle of English Whisky to wind me up. To be fair, it's actually quite drinkable, pleasant, smooth etc. Alas, I'm wedded to Talisker.

Onywho, purchasing malts for them wot doesn't normally partake. Light and smooth is best. Try a Dalwhinnie, Aberlour, Glenlivet, or Oban.

Island malts can be an acquired taste. If smoky, peaty goodness tempts you, work the optic before shelling out. Jura, & Ben More for starters before trying Islay & Skye. 'Tis a short life, live it. Time for one more toot before bed.

night night.

Oban

Not the one from the distillery at the base of the Ben. That can be used for stripping paint

Quirrel

Do you mean Nevis? Great for stripping satinwood from a bannister.

I've always found Oban to be quite inoffensive, hence the suggestion.

I'm off to bed now.

cheers

Aye,

The Nevis.

Meths, pee and some soil in a bottle

Isle of Jura

Scapa 16 year is currently my favourite, not too heavy, floral, lightly spiced but all good whisky should be drunk as intended, straight.

I had a bottle of Ardbeg 17 about 10 years ago (before it changed hands)and that was great, I was going to recommend it and see that it now sell for £200. I think I paid about £40 it lasted a few years anyway.

Glen Ord 12 year old is a good one.

+1 on the Oban for something nice and drinkable in the middle ground

Penderyn - agreed, not a great attempt. my most recent tasting sesh in wales said that the welsh ones weren't too good, but Jura and Dalwinnie were enjoyable and i still like Talisker above most others. Can't remember the names of the others we tried now, just the ones i liked. after a dozen different tasters, it's hard to be a good judge, but easy to be a good drunk )

I just got a bottle of Cragganmore 1993 Distillers edition, not tried it yet, but thge 12 year old is delicious and really smooth, this has got to be better:

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I always found Oban to be a little bland, for a nice inoffensive speyside go for Balvennie Double Wood

Got back a few days ago from a family holiday up to Skye and the Highlands, stopped off at this place on the way up...

[url= http://www.thegreenwellystop.co.uk/whiskyshop/index.php ]Whisky Heaven[/url]

go for a decent rye - I picked up a bottle of Rittenhouse 100% proof bottled in bond for £22 a week ago. Fantastic stuff.

These people [url= http://masterofmalt.com ]are fantastic. They do tasters too[/url]

glenrothes malt if you can get it , about 28 a bottle very smooth.
or the macallan . my preferences but each to their own as i prefer a smoother malt