Very nice. Interesting reality with the bottling line. Sounds like independent bottlers should really be called "cask to bottle brokers" more accurately. Either way I loik forward to seeing a James Eddie her in the US. LOL..I have a 10 year CS Ardmore that will give anything from Islay good competition. Ben Nevis showed up here bottled by Ingelred about 2 years ago. All different age statementa but all bourbon casks. That would make sense as Japanese rules were changing. I picked up a 17 year at at 54.25% for about $150us. Beautiful juice and under $10/year is still possible
I'd read of the quality and reliability of James Eadie from UK reviewers, so was delighted to see it become available in nz late last year. Unfortunately, the single importer here is very greedy with it. Your pay €50 for that 8yo Ben Nevis, but nz instead pays ~€77. Similar with the Linkwood 10yo, earlier, and the same also for the various much more expensive cask strength Eadie bottlings. The Caol Isla 10yo at 55.3% is €124 here. Presumably a single cask but still, that price seems nuts. Yes, some whiskies in nz are very expensive, including the Eadie (pr. eedie, not eddy or adey) releases, but that is far from always the case. NZ does not have nearly as high taxes on alcohol as e.g. Australia does. What we instead have is a very small and often highly uncompetitive pseudo-market for lots of different products--electricity, banking, fuel, groceries, building products, etc. And whisky. Minor: why do you call the SMoS bottle a "decanter"? At least from the picture/icon, it looks like a fairly standard bottle. You say WB243758, but that's Lochan Solan 1990, claimed to be an undisclosed Lagavulin for the Japan market? It's definitely not 8yo.🤔
OK, well, we're all human so wee slips are just part of life, but I think you didn't actually name the comparison bottle in the vid. so I still don't know which whisky it was other than you said 8yo, ncf, natural colour same as the Eadie BN. The wb number you gave, as noted above, leads to an unlikely comparison. It's very minor, just odd that you didn't name it and both the picture and wb reference seem to lead astray.🤔 But life would be boring without its little mysteries.😉
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Very nice. Interesting reality with the bottling line. Sounds like independent bottlers should really be called "cask to bottle brokers" more accurately.
Either way I loik forward to seeing a James Eddie her in the US. LOL..I have a 10 year CS Ardmore that will give anything from Islay good competition.
Ben Nevis showed up here bottled by Ingelred about 2 years ago. All different age statementa but all bourbon casks. That would make sense as Japanese rules were changing.
I picked up a 17 year at at 54.25% for about $150us. Beautiful juice and under $10/year is still possible
GREAT - Beautiful juice and under $10/year is still possible - wow!
I'd read of the quality and reliability of James Eadie from UK reviewers, so was delighted to see it become available in nz late last year. Unfortunately, the single importer here is very greedy with it. Your pay €50 for that 8yo Ben Nevis, but nz instead pays ~€77. Similar with the Linkwood 10yo, earlier, and the same also for the various much more expensive cask strength Eadie bottlings. The Caol Isla 10yo at 55.3% is €124 here. Presumably a single cask but still, that price seems nuts.
Yes, some whiskies in nz are very expensive, including the Eadie (pr. eedie, not eddy or adey) releases, but that is far from always the case. NZ does not have nearly as high taxes on alcohol as e.g. Australia does. What we instead have is a very small and often highly uncompetitive pseudo-market for lots of different products--electricity, banking, fuel, groceries, building products, etc. And whisky.
Minor: why do you call the SMoS bottle a "decanter"? At least from the picture/icon, it looks like a fairly standard bottle. You say WB243758, but that's Lochan Solan 1990, claimed to be an undisclosed Lagavulin for the Japan market? It's definitely not 8yo.🤔
wrong picture of the comparison bottle - sorry!
OK, well, we're all human so wee slips are just part of life, but I think you didn't actually name the comparison bottle in the vid. so I still don't know which whisky it was other than you said 8yo, ncf, natural colour same as the Eadie BN. The wb number you gave, as noted above, leads to an unlikely comparison. It's very minor, just odd that you didn't name it and both the picture and wb reference seem to lead astray.🤔 But life would be boring without its little mysteries.😉