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I was inspired by your post so I opened that bottle
Posted on: December 9, 2016 at 17:00:36 CT
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of Big Peat mentioned below, that I had bought at the Whisky Exchange in London some years ago, Big Peat is a vatted combination of Ardbeg, Bowmore, Caol Ila, and Port Ellen, but no grain whisky, so it can't be called a blend. It's speculated that the amount of Port Ellen in each bottle wouldn't fill a thimble.
It is a "no age statement" version by the independent bottler, Douglas Laing, but the peat is always more prominent in younger whiskies. It's rumored that Hunter Laing, which is a spinoff of sorts from Douglas Laing, will be opening their own distillery on Islay in the near future.
It is delicious....so delicious that I bought a cask strength version of their Christmas version online.
One of the capital raising schemes deployed by owners just starting a new distillery, or resurrecting a closed one, is to offer casks to be purchased at the time the whisky is distilled. The distillery then bottles the whiskey at the mutually agreed to future date and ships it to the owners of the cask, if so desired....or the cask can be shipped to the owner as early as three years and one day, which is the time that that the distillate needs to be aged to be confirmed as whisky in Scotland.
My long term bartender at O'Connell's told me about an older group of regulars who had pooled some cash amongst themselves and purchased a cask of Springbank. He said the whisky was incredibly good and their investment was justified as the resulting cost of a bottle was about half of the going retail price at the time of the purchase.
I remember when Kilchoman, Benromach, and Bruichladdich did that and I was very tempted to buy a cask from Kilchoman, but chickened out. I have a dirt floor cellar and would have loved to age the whisky myself.
Edited by BB63 at 22:26:13 on 12/09/16
It is a "no age statement" version by the independent bottler, Douglas Laing, but the peat is always more prominent in younger whiskies. It's rumored that Hunter Laing, which is a spinoff of sorts from Douglas Laing, will be opening their own distillery on Islay in the near future.
It is delicious....so delicious that I bought a cask strength version of their Christmas version online.
One of the capital raising schemes deployed by owners just starting a new distillery, or resurrecting a closed one, is to offer casks to be purchased at the time the whisky is distilled. The distillery then bottles the whiskey at the mutually agreed to future date and ships it to the owners of the cask, if so desired....or the cask can be shipped to the owner as early as three years and one day, which is the time that that the distillate needs to be aged to be confirmed as whisky in Scotland.
My long term bartender at O'Connell's told me about an older group of regulars who had pooled some cash amongst themselves and purchased a cask of Springbank. He said the whisky was incredibly good and their investment was justified as the resulting cost of a bottle was about half of the going retail price at the time of the purchase.
I remember when Kilchoman, Benromach, and Bruichladdich did that and I was very tempted to buy a cask from Kilchoman, but chickened out. I have a dirt floor cellar and would have loved to age the whisky myself.
Edited by BB63 at 22:26:13 on 12/09/16
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I was inspired by your post so I opened that bottle - BB63 MU - 12/9 17:00:36