One of my favourite commercially available whisky's is The Glenfiddich Solara Reserve 15yr old. But you might have a problem finding a 7yr old to partner it. If you have access to The Malt Whisky Society they may have a 22 yr old on for sale at the moment.

G

 

Just take 22 bottles of one year old....problem solved
Mike

 

nice one but is it not a minimum of 3 for a whisky???

BTW are you going up to Findhorn way yersel Mike??? There some decent sized things about!

 

Hi Gav
Oh, dear, the Findhorn salmon are going to face a crack squad. The Glenlivet sounds fine (any Speyside malt will do) but the only Western Isles whisky worth a place in my cabinet, is anything frae Jura.

Hey, chum, give my cousin Andy MacDonald (manager at The Glenmorangie or as some folk call it Glenmorangie) a bell and he'll recommend one of Golspie's finest. Unless you make the mistake of mentioning your stance on the Dee and C&R, in which case he'll personally select a bottle of best cask dregs for you!

Seriously, though, have a great trip.......and leave your computer behind. It'll allow you to enjoy the glen of tranquillity that much better. Slainte.

 

Now Salar . . . . manager of Glenmorangie. A fine selection of malts too. remember doing the tour with the missus when we were fishing Farrar and at the end of the tour drams were lined up like wee soldiers on the counter and hardly anything was drunk.
"Now" says I "what happens to them?" "Oh" says the wimmin. "We cannot put them back into the bottle!" . . . . . wife drove back to the cottage I also remember getting stacks odf trout flies whilst chewing the fat with the staff. great people. Dont know if he was there then. . . . about 2005 I think but the customer relations was tip top!

I'll promise not to mention gill bleeding springers from the Dee. . . honest!!!!!!
As to computer. . . . .idles a we half hour away at work. . . dreaming and reminiscing and thinking about fishing. Problem is phone now connects to net so even at the riverside i like to see what everybody else is doing!!!!!

Changed days on Tay too when a polly bag signalled in the air with a crcle for blank, numbers of strokes for fish caught between ghillies is now replaced by a mobile phone call!!!!

 

For me it would have to be (in no particular order)

Balblair 1989 (2000 is very nice too)
Dalmore Gran Reserva
Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban
Clynelish 14
Old pulteney

Paul

 

For me it would have to be (in no particluar order)

Balblair 1989 (2000 is very nice too)
Dalmore Gran Reserva
Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban
2. Clynelish 14
1. Old pulteney
Paul

2.. . . . . loverly
1. . . . . never been a fan. Dont know if its the name or what!?!!

Cant knock back your other choices.

BTW anybody going to the Glasgow Whisky Festival in November at the Arches i think. I've got my ticket!!!!!!

 

Singleton 12 year old and a Jura 10 year old.

Keep that wee rascal Limond aff the whisky ha ha ha!!!

 

HEE HEE Love the wee mans crack and just hope he will be in fine fettle . . . .sure he will right enough. Hes organised I think the usual full beast for food and some Hare stew I believe. that on top of the cullen skink soup and "Ayrshire" fry ups will keep us going. Certainly put a lining on the guts.
i do all the difficult evening cooking BTW. Think at the mo the wee man is concerned with making sure we can listen to the OF game on radio when we get there. We have blown out the taxi into Portland Club in Inversneckie this time. Too early at 12.30. . . . .anyway couple of bottles at the riverside come Sunday and hopefully the right result Doon rod eh!!!

Ah the Singleton. salmon on the bottle and all that. . . hmmmmm. thats got me thinking??????

 

Let's face it Gav, they all taste great when your on the riverbank or in the bothy.
Nobody's mentioned any of the wee cheeky wee numbers from the Long Row in Campbeltown. As far as 10yos go, there is the Longrow 10yo itself, or maybe a Springbank 10yo. If you can get a 12yo Springbank I'll come and carry all your gear for the week
Two of my favourites are from Islay, but a bit pricey; Lagavullin Distiller's Edition and Bowmore Darkest.

 

Hi Guys,

If it wasn't for the price it would have to be Aberlour Abuna'dh for me as it is the best whisky I have ever drank.

Also like Lagavullin, Macallan, Macallan Fine Oak.

 

Looking at that very dram right now. Batch no 15. Havent opened it yet.. . .
How much is it?

 

22yo malt

Try White&Mackay Supreme 22yo Malt £54.40 from www.scotchmaltwhisky.co.uk

 

Try White&Mackay Supreme 22yo Malt £54.40 from www.scotchmaltwhisky.co.uk

Never tasted it! Hmmmmmm!

 

22yo speyside

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LINKWOOD-...-WHISKY-B18-/150651288989?pt=UK_Collectables_Bottle_Pots_ET&hash=item2313843d9d

Go on Gav, get yer wallet oot.
The Whyte and Mackay is a good call as well.
We will be looking forward to the report.
Hope you have a good time.
Remember, put them back because you want to, not because you are made to.

All the best Mows

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LINKWOOD-...-WHISKY-B18-/150651288989?pt=UK_Collectables_Bottle_Pots_ET&hash=item2313843d9d

Go on Gav, get yer wallet oot.
The Whyte and Mackay is a good call as well.
We will be looking forward to the report.
Hope you have a good time.
Remember, put them back because you want to, not because you are made to.

All the best Mows

Thanks for that link mows
As to the fish, we traditionally keep one cleanish grilse for a meal and the rest are returned anyway.
To be honest i just love the area, it has soooooo many memories of folk here and gone!
I may try a report but my actual laptop is pish so makes it doubly difficult.
Regards

 

Simple - Springbank 10yr old and Springbank 12 yr (i'm just drinking it now)

 

The Macallan rich oak is also a belter, or for something sweet and smoky Bunnahhabain(think that's how it is spelt)

 

At the risk of being filleted by my Celtic cousins......

Have a go at

http://www.celticwhiskeyshop.com/Ja...meson_18_Year_Old_Limited_Reserve-z-product-product-75-context-brand-page-1.htm

 

OOOOfffttt. that's a dear yin!!!

 

I am easy to please i like them all lol
but my all time favourite glass is Glenmorangie Nectar D'Or

 

Where's the like button???

 

One 12 year old Glen Ord Singleton, and a Dailuaine 9 year old from Speyside, enough said. Get the Daluaine from Tyndrums welly boot shoppy.And 1 bottle of blend to make up the last year and bottle numbers!

 

had the dailuaine before Merlin. It wa slovely. Dont think it was a 9. I remember it was great with a quart of water though!

 

It has to be Glenfarclass 105 and excuse the yearly tradition for a year.

 

Glenfarclas is great Scanny. the bottles always seem to look "old" and vintage.

 

I have to say, the first time I savoured Singleton was 2 years ago in Norway when Pat McNeill and John Young produced it of an evening or two.
I fell in love with it immediately.
My all time favourite however, is the Balvenie in all its various guises.

 

Hell Tom. . . . ahve to say they are two of my favs. balvenie is up there . .. no doubt.
A wee fav of mine is the Highland Park too.
BTW I am on night shift the noo. . . . keeping the sick safe and well. . . . . well I am on a break the noo actually
Nae fushin for me the morra sadly

 

whisky festival . . . fishing cottage . . . .LOL!

I THINK I MANAGED IT!

 

HERE GOES AGAIN. Anybody want to come with us? All done by thursday from sun night ooppssss!

 

Wahoo.. . .it worked.

 

No A'bhunah or 105, I thought you had taste g1o!

 

theres an islay there somewhere unless it wasnt there.. . . .ooppss bruchladdich is there. Glenfarclas was so last year. LOL.
BTW. Scanny oh expert photo poster, you have no idea how chuffed i am to manage to post that. Took me 4 hours. No i cant work out how to fo it again

 

Just as side issue, balvenie double wood (the best pound for pound dram) was £24 in the tesco in st andrews last weekend, was £22 in the co-op, stornoway, isle of lewis last easter but is 95 euro in the local off-license over here and has been for many years. Anyway gives me a good excuse for driving home a couple of times a year.

 

Crikey we all have our favs dont we? Great stuff guys. Have to say one of my favs was another members fav.. . . . .Dailuaine 23yr old, 46% fantastic

 

Alcohol and fishing should only be mixed after the fishing is over and you're talking about your catch. We don't want anyone drowning.

I'll settle for a 15 year old Highland Park.

 

whilst you are correct Aweman I doubt there are many who have not mixed the 2!!!!!!!!!
BTW great pick that. . . . . HP as my mate calls it and he does slap the bottle to get every dreg when its empty. In fact there was a guy who would drop a small measure of water into an empoty bottle swirl it about and consume to ensure evry drop was oot!!!!!!!!!!

Funny I do remember the drams dropping on the Orchy a number of years back (drink driving days if you know what I mean), after we had a brilliant day on Craig Lodge and some English guys had caught a 21lber from Black Duncan. We met at the suspension foot bridge above Sams Box and consumed stacks of the stuff with them. the English guys had 2 bottles of that very vintage you describe!!!!!!!!

BTW how did the Orchy fish this year with the poor grilse runs??????

 

Could never stand the taste of whisky,absolutely beelin. Preferred a voddy masel. Does that make me a jessie?

B/O

 

Err, yes. But you can do the driving B/O.

BTW - all of the Balvenies for me - working my way through the full range! A bottle of Single Cask arrived this morning which I am drooling over at whilst doing this!
Best so far was a "GoldenCask" bought at Malaga Airport last spring - for me anyway - left an inch in the bottle for my host at Ecclefechin in October.
Sorry can't do the maths, just finishing off the "Signature", but they do a 21 year old you could have had last year!

When I've finished with the Balvenies I'll start on some of the other wonderful whiskys that have been mentioned - If I'm spared!!

daibach

 

I don't know.....

I have never been a whisky drinker and always preferred the richer taste of Rum.. but then I hadn't ever been Salmon fishing either.. then ---
I was accepted for a couple of days to Middle Drum and there received my baptism in both Salmon Angling and Whisky appreciation. I'm not sure which was the best of the whisky but I found I really liked the Macallan, and the Glenlivet, and I now have the odd one or three when i am sitting trying to improve the heads of my Flies. Perhaps this is the reason why they always look untidy!!
As for Cambelltown, I was given a Present a few years ago - still unopened - from the last batch ever made at the Distillery there. It is called Springbank and I am hoping it is not just the dregs of the barrel. It is safely tucked away for now, along with a few other bottles of stuff accumulated over the years, and will only be opened when ............
(perhaps you might like to think of an occasion worthy of the opening )

 

I have never been a whisky drinker and always preferred the richer taste of Rum.. but then I hadn't ever been Salmon fishing either.. then ---
I was accepted for a couple of days to Middle Drum and there received my baptism in both Salmon Angling and Whisky appreciation. I'm not sure which was the best of the whisky but I found I really liked the Macallan, and the Glenlivet, and I now have the odd one or three when i am sitting trying to improve the heads of my Flies. Perhaps this is the reason why they always look untidy!!
As for Cambelltown, I was given a Present a few years ago - still unopened - from the last batch ever made at the Distillery there. It is called Springbank and I am hoping it is not just the dregs of the barrel. It is safely tucked away for now, along with a few other bottles of stuff accumulated over the years, and will only be opened when ............
(perhaps you might like to think of an occasion worthy of the opening )

Aye, John, if the SG gets AIG and tells us what is happening with the Statutory Instrument for the Season Extension, you'll be adding to your education yet again on both fronts and Sandra will be in control of the wheels!