Malt whisky lovers - what is your fave Speyside?

[Shadow]

Those two are what I like

As well as being generous, you show good taste too, sir.
And I would think any recipient would be well chuffed.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

As well as being generous, you show good taste too, sir.
And I would think any recipient would be well chuffed.

The pair have died in ditches several times since I joined this programme. They've earned it.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Do you have a price point in mind ?

ton ish a bottle.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

ton ish a bottle.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

MY favourites, not saying the best or someone else's is P**S, are, in no particular order Royal Lochnagar, Balvenie Doublewood and Cragganmore 12
Macallan 10 was a favourite but now sadly no longer produced as is Yamazaki 10 a cracking dram. Old Pulteney is another regular in my cabinet.

You can spend a lifetime finding a single malt that suits your palate, made a few mistakes along the way but that is part of the fun.

Keep looking

If you haven't.... Try one of the Japanese Nikka Coffey still whiskies. The malt or the grain.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

IT Contractor innit. And they are pressies for "brothers in arms".

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Yet there are Speyside whiskies that taste like they are from Islay, so maybe it's better to focus on style rather than geography?

When I say "Speyside" in a thread title I mean in the style of Speyside from Speyside. In other words...

Speyside.

Jebus.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

This might give some ideas
https://www.scottishfield.co.uk/summer-challenge-results-2017/

 

[User482]

When I say "Speyside" in a thread title I mean in the style of Speyside from Speyside. In other words...

Speyside.

Jebus.

I'm not a mind reader!

 

[rich p]

Buy any old Speyside Greg, at your price point, because it's pretty clear that everyone has a different opinion or taste, which will apply equally to the recipients!

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

This thing about single malts is quite a recent invention, pure marketing. Until the 50's the focus was on the master blenders, skillfully mixing and matching various malts from different distilleries, different ages, different cask finishes, to provide a bottled product that enhanced the best qualities. Can't help feeling that we're all missing out by restricting our bottle to the contents of one distillery, or even, in some cases, one cask.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

This thing about single malts is quite a recent invention, pure marketing. Until the 50's the focus was on the master blenders, skillfully mixing and matching various malts from different distilleries, different ages, different cask finishes, to provide a bottled product that enhanced the best qualities. Can't help feeling that we're all missing out by restricting our bottle to the contents of one distillery, or even, in some cases, one cask.

Yep. The industry itself effectively blocked vatted malts as a concept. The Wine Society still do a good one.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

A while back, I was sat next to a bloke on an aeroplane who requested a single malt off the drinks trolley. I had a half formed inclination to ask him whether he was an adventurous sampler of as many different tastes as possible, or an indiscriminate fool.

Possibly, having glanced at the on-board menu, or being a frequent flyer, he was an informed consumer?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

The exact phrase was "a single malt" not "the single malt".

Appalling. Was he American?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I had an American guest. Ex-colleague from the happy times in Scandi. He browsed my whisky shelf, selected a decent 18 year old, and asked for some coke. Hospitality insisted I oblige. But, really.