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Yeah I understand what you're saying, I thing the Cotswolds NAS ones are better as well. These guys do have age statements/vintages in their single cask releases or limited editions. For example you can get a single cask cask strength English whisky for the same price as Cotswolds' sherry/bourbon/peated casks. Give them a try if you can find. Thanks for watching, cheers

Thanks Greg glad you liked it. Yes their core range is nothing to shout about but I do enjoy their age statements and single cask releases and they're good value as well compared to the competition. Cheers

Because I trust Mark and his expertise. He's a very reputable whisky dealer and he does his due diligence to the T. Also because this tastes nothing like an 18 year old whisky that I know of or can identify.

Absolutely Tim! The whisky gods work in mysterious ways 😁

Thank you John, glad you enjoyed it.

@@McIntyresMalts hahahah yeah I am a lucky one indeed 😃

Thank you yeah an absolute delight and an incredible experience. I have a bottle of Ballantine's 17 from the 1960s so depending on which end of the decade it might've been distilled between 1943 and 1952. How about you?

Greg thank you and ahem yes of course 22 but I couldn't resist the marketing aspect, mea culpa 😅 Thanks for the suggestion and yes I did think to let it breathe but I thought the bottle itself breathed in transit and also when Mark was bottling them. I did leave the remainder to try as the day went but not much has changed to be honest. You're right on the fragile side but good knowledge on the herbal issue thank you. I once came across a cocktail book for NYC bars written in the 1930s and it mentions 'the malt whisky Scots of Highlands drink are nothing like the smooth and tasty whiskies (he means the blends) we have in USA. They're bitter, harsh and very unpleasant' Shows you a little glimpse into the past and also how things have changed. Thanks for your input Greg, always appreciate it

Oh absolutely a thoroughbred unicorn! Thanks for watching!

Something unique and once in a life time thing for me for sure. Cheers Christine

@@thewhiskyenthusiast Absolutely!! 🙂

Yeah my knowledge of old whiskies are not great for me to find any discrepancy but if Mark and Angus put their seals of approval I'm happy to taste something so unique. Thanks John!

Mark is an absolute mensch! This was a once in a lifetime experience for sure for me, cheers Gert!

Thanks for watching Ash. Yeah something I've never tasted before and I'd be hard pressed to call it whisky in a blind.

Glad you enjoyed it! Yes I was very surprised with the white wine notes on the Glenfarclas that Wade found. It's good that things are subjective otherwise it would be boring if we all liked and disliked the same things. Cheers

Thanks for watching!

Well what's not to like Jon, a young high abv harsh(ish) heavily peated maritime malt! Thanks for watching 😃

Thanks Tim, it sure was interesting to see what kind of notes Wade got from the same whiskies. Cheers

Thank you and I'm even more glad now that you've found my channel 😃 I hope you like the content

Thanks Greg it was fun to do and so interesting to see the differences in notes. Yeah I'm not too sad about it, I have a feeling Wade tried to bamboozle me with his 'weird' tasting notes 😂

Thanks John! Yeah I was caught off guard with different tasting notes than mine 😃

Hahaha yeah we live our lives on the edge!

@@thewhiskyenthusiast 😁😁😁😁

Thanks Amy we had fun 😃🥃

Yeah I see what you're saying. The 12 is a very pretty whisky but that's where it stops. This one is prettier still. I can find this at a reasonable price in my market but if it were higher I might not have pulled the trigger. It's good, not amazing. Cheers Tim!

Of course you had more fun than I did as the victor 😂 Nah man all kidding aside it was a brilliant experience for me too. Great to see your tasting notes to the whiskies I'm familiar with and how they differ from mine. Congratulations my man 🥃

Oh then you will definitely enjoy this. Thanks for watching 🥃

Thank you

Yeah some whiskies have a low price in my market compared to the others and some are ridiculously high! It certainly is a good educational process to do these flights. Thanks for watching

That is a great price! I understand and share your thoughts. It was good to try but I will be looking for alternatives. Thanks for watching

It's definitely not you Christine, it is an expensive whisky. A very well made blend but a blend nonetheless which won't ever come close to the beauty of a good malt whisky. It's good to try though if you receive it as a gift :)

@@thewhiskyenthusiast I am so appreciative to have received this whisky as a gift! It was very kind and very expensive when gifted to me but now it's so much more $$! Yikes! Hey I enjoyed some Ardbeg An Oa last night! It's hard to get here but showed up in a special release event at our BC Liquor Stores in my province. Quite nice! I always love the smoke! Have an awesome day!! Loving the Lagavulin Offerman 11 4th Edition!! Cheers!! 🙂

@@christinecamley Yes I was as well to receive it as a gift, good that we have generous friends 😃 The An Oa is a decent dram actually but I think it gets lost within the core range of Ardbeg in my opinion. Glad you like the Lagavulin Christine, have an awesome day yourself

It sure is John, a very well made whisky. Cheers

Hahah yes man exactly so they did what they wanted to. Not all experiments would succeed but it sure does add fun to this whisky business. Cheers!

Hahhaha well I'll tell you how it evolved, it evolved pretty swiftly into cocktail fodder and finished. I will not be getting another bottle, nor I think I can find any either now that it's delisted

@@thewhiskyenthusiast nice, well i think this was not bestseller so for sure bottles are available somewhere, but that said, it seems like its not worth.

Thanks Greg! Yeah slow slow they're producing quality whiskies. Long way away from Compass Box's visibility of course!

Thanks for your input Greg. i absolutely agree with you on how expensive this is. My only point in saying it's a good value was because it's an inaugural release. Like Ardnamurchan, if they gradually drop their prices as they release new bottles, I think we'll be happy with them. Of course they can do the exact opposite and play for the premium market which then they would lose all support from 'us'. Let's wait and see. I don't necessarily feel the fomo or hunt down every new release but I have been waiting for Ardnahoe to release something since the beginning and I couldn't help myself :) As for water, I just don't like it. You're right maybe as channels we should be a bit more informative and try everything and give all the information available to the viewers but I rarely enjoy water in whisky. 50%abv for me is just right so I didn't even think of adding. I always say 'water giveth and water taketh away' which is a weird way of saying when I add water either the nose or the palate gets damaged and I just don't see the point most of the time. Cheers man, thanks for watching

Wow Shane didn't know this, thank you for enlightening me and yes after reading this I don't think it was a coincidence either 😃

Thank you, glad you liked it! Yes the price will absolutely have to come down and I'm sure they'll even themselves out after a couple of releases. Young Islay is always appreciated if you're into those flavours! Benromach is awesome and I agree with you, that these independent bottlers have such a wealth of knowledge, it makes sense for them to produce their own malts and they'll all be probably very very good! Cheers

Thanks Christine. I hope you get to try it soon and let us know if you like it. Happy hunting 😃

@@thewhiskyenthusiast My husband and I and friends are on the hunt! Looks like a close friend in Europe who found a couple of bottles will bring one when she visits in July!! Yay!! Thanks for the awesome reply!! Cheers! 🙂

Ah man that's a bummer but I'm sure some of those 70,000 bottles will make their away across the ocean to you. Cheers!

Thanks John and yes I do have a great sister, she's my little mule when it comes to these new releases 😅

Thanks Jim, I absolutely did! Cheers

Yes we've been waiting for this for a while now! Absolutely I am too waiting for newer releases from them. Thanks for watching, cheers!

Ash I absolutely understand and if it wasn't an inaugural release I wouldn't either. I think for a first release of this caliber the price is OK, not great but ok. I'm sure we'll see more and more Ardnahoes cheaper in the future. Thanks for watching 🥃

You are absolutely right on the price. It is expensive for a 5 year old sure but this is a first release and comparing it to some younger recent first releases with less specs it's actually good. I would've loved if it was 50 or so but I think we'll see more releases from Ardnahoe at fairer prices. I will judge them on their second release price believe me 😃 Thanks for watching 🥃

Selamlar! 12den kat kat daha iyi bir viski bence ama zaten artik 12yi bulmak da zor, uretimi durdu, artik 10 var raflarda. Yeni videolarimda Turkce altyazi var, vakit buldukca eskilerine de ekleyecegim.

@@thewhiskyenthusiast çok teşekkür ederim, bunu birgün alacağım. Tad olarak bir birine yakın mı, yoksa çok uzak mı? Burada bunu almak için, 4 gün 8 er saat çalışmanız gerekiyor, yani 32 saat

@@Mertkara06demir Elbet bir ortak noktaları var ama 17 12ye göre çok daha gövdeli ve keyifli. Önümüzdeki bir süre müsait değilim ama bana adresinizi ve telefonunuzu yazarsanız sizin adınıza bir kadehlik Ballantines 17 yollayabilirim. Böylece tatmış olur ve paranızı ve vaktinizi hak edip etmediğine karar verirsiniz.

@@thewhiskyenthusiast ooo :) bu ince düşünceniz için çok teşekkür ederim. Fakat bu kadar zahmet etmenize razı olamam. Türkiye de yaşıyorum :) lüks bir bar var bildiğim. Orada bir kadeh içebilirim aslında. İnanın çok iyisiniz. Çok teşekkür ederim 😊

@@Mertkara06demir Zahmetlik bir durum yok Mert Bey. Bu kanalın amacı viskiler hakkında fikirlerimi sunup karşılıklı yorumlaşmak. Madem merak ediyorsunuz ve benim elimde de paylaşacak kadar viski kaldı seve seve bir sample ayarlarım size. Isterseniz buradan isterseniz instagramdan aynı isimli hesabıma adresinizi yazarsanız 2 hafta sonra kargoya çıkar. Şimdiden afiyet olsun 🥃

Oh wow I did not know this at all, thanks for the warning! To be honest I only bought one set to try to see what kind of effects it would have but as you can see I did not enjoy it and find it a bit gimmicky. Good to know it also could be harmful. Thanks for watching and the useful tip

Lucky you! I think you'll enjoy that bottle 😃 yeah I hear you, some finishes could be hit or miss and I'm not a massive sherry fan but Ardnamurchan Sherry cask is something else! Cheers, thanks for watching

Hahah yes not a very healthy one but it was cool 😄 Well here's to you trying this one and me trying the 12! Cheers

Looking forward to your comment Greg. When I mentioned it on the roundtable with Roy, Jim, Vin and Jeff, Roy said he finds Bladnoch to be one of the most lactic whiskies out there. See what you find. Cheers!

@@thewhiskyenthusiast yeah I remember but not my tasting notes, will keep you posted when I'll try them again

Hahahah yeah just give us the whisky, we don't need or want the BS! Yes I find trying the newmakes against the end product always helps. Cheers Greg