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Thanks! It is hard to find decent reviews of this particular dram.

I'm sure you've heard by now that Waterford has ceased production and is now in receivership.

Fantastic to get a review of something very much off the normal reviewers radar. Well done Rob, this sounds like the tip of an iceberg coming out from China and that should be ringing alarm bells in Scotland and further afield.

Rob, your contents is excellent. You have great charisma and communications skills. Your knowledge and research are top notch. Most of all, your tasting notes descriptions are probably the best on RUclips. You are less than 100 subscribers short of 1000. Can I ask you, why then do you choose to record your reviews in an empty sterile and lifeless room, devoid of any colour or content except a white table with bare white walls, and place your microphone in the worst possible place one could possibly think of, picking up all the table noise and religating your voice to the background? Are you playing some kind of a social experiment on us? Are you trying to go for that brutalism / Orwellian dystopian look or are perhaps trying to hide your whisky review activities from your wife? Chas VeShalom, I'm not telling you to surround yourself with barrels or hundreds of whisky bottles and neon lights, but this white room gig is not doing you any favours. Might I suggest you look at another very modest whisky review channel called "Whisky Lock". He also uses a plain room but conducts his reviews on a nice oak table and has placed a simple notice board on the wall behind him with peeled off labels from past whisky bottle reviews. Simple, cheap but effective.

For the first time in my life I now know what you are experiencing when you are reviewing this Sherry bomb. I have been enjoying the M&H Apex Single Cask Kosher PX Cask and the tasting notes are pretty much as you describe here. I spoke to Tomer Goren, manager of M&H last week about one particular style of whisky which is still unavailable in the Kosher market, that is the Peated Ex-Sherry Cask single malts, and to my delight he told me that they are working on it and hope to have them bottled soon. So, I'm looking forward to knowing what the likes of Kilchoman and Lagavulin Peated Ex-Sherry cask expressions are like. I have criticised M&H in the past for trying to make the best Scotch Whisky possible in Israel, instead of trying to make Israeli Whisky with its own character, as the Golani and Yerushalmi distilleries do, but in truth, I am an absolute hypocrite, because I'm so enjoying and benefitting from the very thing I'm reproving them for. That's making excellent kosher versions of great Scotch Whisky.

Hope all is well for sure. If you were going to shut down your channel, I would assume you would announce this. An update would be good.

Excellent review! I have just bought and tasted my first Signatory Vintage. It is a Glelivet 17, 1st fill Oloroso, 60.9 abv, cask 900797, bottle 557 of 625. It doesn't say un chillfiltered, but after adding water turns misty, long legs, and a long wait for optimal flavor. First one I've found in the states.

Taking the summer off? You haven't posted in a while, hope all is well ✌️

In Pakistan, this betel used to cost just $2, making it a very cheap item. Pakistan has a drinking culture among the high-class Muslims, and even the middle class consumes alcohol frequently. High-class individuals prefer smuggled goods from the USA or UK, while the middle class and poorer communities opt for Murree drinks, with the Murree Brewery thriving in the country.

Thanks for the review, it is nice to see reviews of more modest whiskies. I have a bottle of this but haven't had the occasion to open it yet. Came rather highly recommended by a retailer of fine whiskies so I took a flyer.

I just picked this up in the Chicago area for $29.99. I figured at that price, it was worth the risk.

Reading all of that, are you?

Really enjoyed the Orchard House profile, delicate with some weight behind it and a lovely mouth feel. Fairly well priced too, unlike some of the other CB offerings which are for collectors or status seekers.

Ki found it too fruity... It's not my favorite style of whisky.

Reliable review as ever Rob. I had a bottle of Orchard House, it was excellent and went rather quickly!

There are more polish whiskyies. For example charley's From group AWW.

Spirits produced in other parts of the world do not seem to have the amazing following there is for Scotch, but it is intriguing to discover the heritage and distilling skills which have evolved in faraway cultures. Good review as always Rob. Thank you.

Great find - thanks for sharing🙂

I was in lake Puelo, Argentina last year, and I was able to see the distillery, we tasted the 10-year organic edition and I thought it was excellent, at the same or better level than a good Scotch. Also near lake Nahuel Huapi is the Madoc distillery, which has very good products as well. Greetings and congratulations for the channel.

My video trying the sample you gave me will go public on the 14th... I need to watch it now to see what I said a couple of weeks ago when I recorded it. Of course, I didn't have any notes or much time to get very acquainted with it.

64.5 Abv! Dangerous. For me higher strength whisky is usually good but I don’t really want the alcoholic effect. Interesting to hear your take on this one Rob.

Glad to see you back! 👍 $200 CAD aye? For comparison, how much is a bottle of Bunnahabhain 12 Cask Strength in Canada?

I just love the Signatory Cask Strength packaging. This Signatory CS Deanston 12 is in total contrast to the Official Bottling Deanston 12, being that it is matured in a First-Fill Ex-Sherry butt, whereas the distillery's core range bottling is exclusively Ex-Bourbon matured. I personally would not even nose a whisky bottled at more than 60% abv. It will destroy my sense of smell for quite a while. I have a few Golani Single Cask Single Malts over 60% abv and will always add a couple of teaspoons just to begin with.

This is a really old version though.

Hello my friend, excellent review.

You're going to like Lagg... They use the same peat from Northeast Scotland on the malted barley that is used on Machrie Moor malt.

The color of corn is purple, and it is used more in natural soft drinks, but it is impressive that the company has released a version with whiskey, and it is good that there are more private companies that dare to try to create crazy things, and make it work. Bravo!

Rob, what Alberta on-line liquor vendor, or vendors, are you using to get whiskies mailed to you in BC? Kensington Wine Mart's website says they won't ship to addresses outside Alberta and also claims it is illegal for them to do so, but clearly there has to be at least one Alberta company that is doing it, or else you wouldn't be getting bottles like this.

Pakistan has superb Whiskey!!!

This series is probably what really brought me around to appreciating red wine finishes. They are a bit overwhelming, so I can get it not being you type of whisky, but very nice all the same :)

I have yet to try the sample of Austrian whisky that you gave me... I tried to figure out which Lebanese whisky you gave me, and there are apparently three brands. Do you remember which one I have?

Absolutely agree with Reb’s comment. You should be getting a greater audience Rob, you deserve more attention.

There aren't many RUclips channels where I automatically click on the thumbs up button as a matter of course before even watching the video. Never disappoints.😊

Thanks for another interesting review. Like to hear about any discoveries at the Victoria event last week.

Lagg is one of those things that I'm really going for lately.... Great whisky. See you at the Victoria Whisky Festival next week?

It is on my radar but so far not acquired. There is so much out there to try and too many bottles unopened in my store. Great review, always reliable. Happy New Year to you and yours Rob.

As always, great tasting notes. The Lagg profile sounds like something I'd really like. It would be interesting to compare the new Laggs with the now, or soon to be discontinued Machrie Moors of Lochranza distillery (previously Isle of Arran) with a very similar abv and ppm recipe. Unfortunately, Lagg hasn't arrived yet in Israel, and due to the war against Hamas, with my sons fighting in the army, I won't be leaving home anytime soon to visit the UK.

yes does have that rum like character in it which kinda makes you want to puke in the confusion especially when there is sweetness first followed by that with nothing in between to balance it out so it is kinda two dimensional whisky as most often these cheaper canadian blends are but its not that bad

give special old rye whisky a try, also made by the same distillery, surprisingly it has become my fav go to even over scotch, smooth all the way through and good round balanced sweetness and mild flavors

one thing i learned on my whisky journey is never to judge by the first impression specially whisky, many a times it will be good or bad but often changes quickly after the first dram is out of the bottle and it may only take a day to change, at first taste of deluxe the mouth feel was pleasant med viscosity then changed to water just before i swallowed it and was very smooth with faint flavors and faint aromas and not much of a finish, the next day the aromas started developing more and layered and the mouth feel a bit looser more flavors and spiciness as well as side burns on the tongue lingering and developing for the finish more like a scotch but with a bit of water that mellowed away, it may be a different exp each time after that specially depending on what you drank and eat before or what you drink with it like water or coffee may enhance the exp, another one once was bells that stuff tasted like horrid swill stick inky crap but before returning it to the store the next day i decided it to give it one last try and to my surprise it was like the crap that was there magically turned into actual whisky with pleasant taste

good stuff

Honey, cream , Anise seed with cinnamon. Sounds great and a cracy price! Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

FYI… your volume is very low… challenge to hear. Cheers 🥃

Well done for getting your hands on this rarity. Interesting stuff.

It would probably be quicker to name the things you can’t smell in it

Nice review, good one for taking a chance on it.

The blended sector is very under represented in the RUclips reviews Rob and I think more reviews are called for. Price and value for money will become more relevant to many people. Great blends are gaining significance so keep discovering them and sharing your views. Canada and cold weather - you’ll need to keep your spirits up.

I want to try this one, but i dont know😕

Fascinating review. I'm in New York, and there is at least one farm distillery that I know of making Single Malt (Hillrock), and several others which are using New York State Malt and Grain. I even have a bottle of Single Malt made in Brooklyn (Brownstone Single Malt).

I think better spend now most of the budget in consolidated labels, keeping an eye in the evolution of the new projects (wolfburn, torabhaig, etc). For the same price you can have better bottles...