ralfy review 1057 - Ardnamurchan Midgie @48%vol:
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
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Had a bottle of this when I visited London whisky exchange, was as excellent as Ralfy says. I've noticed the younger distillery have been able to make excellent drams out of younger spirits, for 5yo, Ardnamurchan and Glasgow were my favorite.
Loved MacLeans Nose blended and kept a few bottles back for the future. Marvelous channel, Ralfy. Thank you.
Love Maclean Nose, been grabbing them at $25.90 at Specs on Dallas.
Had a chance to try this when I visited the Bon Accord on my trip across the pond in September! Was a fantastic dram.
Finished my bottle of this recently, one of the fastest bottles i have finished in a long time.
I also added the "end of the bottle" to the end of my kilkerran 12 bottle. KK and ardnamurchan blend very well together.
@@paintspot1509 I find playing with blending fascinating. I usually leave my wee experiments to marry for at least two to three months. No major duds...so far.
I'm going to give your mix a shot. Thanks for the suggestion!
Cheers 🥃
Marian 🇨🇦
@onewomanswhisky yea I find it a lot of fun. Good luck! Hope you enjoy it
Terrific talk, Ralfy. I'm familiar with the silent way in which trees fall. I used to live in Croatia where such storms are common and I've seen them suddenly lean over, their roots kicking up clouds of soil as they break free of the earth. I'm looking forward to trying The Midgie.
i just came back from London with this little creature in my bag. Looking very much forward to enjoying it 🤗 i am more into the younger, smaller destilleries, a heavyweight Kilchoman fanboy, Arran, Torabhaig, Ledaig, ...
Wow! I cannot put this bottle down! This dram is punching well above its price tag too! I really am struggling not to reach for another pour… it’s good, seriously good! 😉
Wow! Ralfy the Weatherman! I love it👍👍
Casks are from 2016 to 2018, bottled in March 2024, which makes 6-8yr old whisky.
My favourite whisky, the Benromach that ralfy reviewed last week, as ralfy predicted, sold out across the board very quickly. Possibly following ralfy's good review. Just a heads up for future bottles.
I must get on ralfy's patreon to get ahead of the game next time!
It’s now in my top 3 after a wee snifter at the airport. Belter.
Excellent! I'll give it a try.
This Chainsaw-Assisted review was music to my ears. EU-based so this UK Release was too expensive for me to get! I recently got the 10-YO from Ardnamurchan and that was absolutely delicious. Would reccommend Ralfy!
Too bad you don’t live here in the U.S. where we don’t yet have 40% taxes added to liquor and tobacco to pay for useless Social programs. Our price for this Whisky is about $60 U.S. Done, out the door.
Whisky is made in Stills and Stihl makes the best chainsaws!
@@danf321 Not sure why you felt the need to comment this ,but I could get this bottle for about 55 Euros, which I feel is too much for this product (Hence why I called it too expensive) - For a little bit more I got the 10YO! Scotch is almost never cheaper in the US than in the EU.
@ Just curious: Is the price you pay out the door or before the added taxes that, from my experiences, are added onto alcohol products? In Canada, a $5.00 bottle of wine from the U.S. costs literally $15.00 after taxes taxes taxes.
@@danf321 we dont have taxes added later to the price on websites / in stores. The price we see is the one we pay. No tax added at the register. Its already calculated in.
Deffo on the look out for one of these. Thanks Ralfy 👍
Thanks for reviewing the Midgie. I want a bottle right now. Cheerio from a pat-pal
Ralfy, you are absolutely right, only smell and taste matters. Everything else should be irrelevant. Having the bottle in front of you and knowing the brand will already give you some sort of assumption that might affect on your judgement at some level.
And this is exactly the reason why I have poured a sample of each whisky that I own into a small sample bottle. I'm going to start blind tasting them occasionally and I'm feeling very excited about this experiment. One thing is trying to guess which whisky it is, but most importantly figuring out if I like a particular whisky more or less without knowing the brand. Exciting times ahead!
Hi ralfy , think it has a small % of madiera casks in the mix
Very nice bottle indeed. Sad to see it even under MSRP due to lower interest. I love this release and I got it for under 35 pounds before vat removal and shipping! It almost felt criminal.
Cheers from the US!
Ralfy it's about time you got on the White Peak/Wire Works bandwagon for some excellent quality young whisky from those cheeky buggers south of the border
Wireworks has some great stuff.
Oh I agree, delicious stuff
Ralfy, you are an Ent, not an Orc.
Hoom, rah! Beautiful whisky...
And his name is "Maltbeard", I think ! 😅
"It takes a very long time to mature something in old Entish..."
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In my market / USA New England, I can only get the AD & that’s fantastic!!
I visited Ardnamurchan on the 17th of May and when we came out from the tasting they were filling the shelves with Midgie.
But I was not allowed to buy a bottle because it was not supposed to be released until the 18th. Doh!!!
And they had cleared so much space that there were little else of interest. Double doh!
Well that’s silly and snobbish of them. If it’s on the shelf for the consumer to see it should be for sale. Finger wagging at them for this
I thought this would be your malt of the year actually!
I loved the comment 'I had a visitor, I don't encourage it cause I am an introvert' 🤣🤣, I am much the same.
Getting this for Christmas 😊
Lucky you
Really looking forward to your review of the 10 Ralfy! Picked up a bottle but not opened as of yet.
The distilleries, especially the independent we like that have been about for the last 30 years and the ones we'll see that have been built and those that will be within the next few years from Ardgowan to Benbecula ,Dalriata to Harris ,even Witchburn hold the key to the future of Scotch as number 1! but most importantly, those doing it the way whisky should be!
Darragh sure made a mess. Glad you're okay...🙏
Marian 🇨🇦
Ralfy you are The Beat 🤘🏼😊
Ralf, I'm tempted to get hold of the cask strength version of Kilchoman Sanaig. I know the Sanaig is a favourite of yours; have you tried the cask strength? Recommend or no, if you have?
Have been wondering the same! Went for the Benromach 10 and haven't been disappointed
It was my summer dram, it is light and bright, a nice change for summer.
We don't have any Ardnamurchan here in Chile. Small market I guess...
After 1087+ videos, you eventually revealed to us where in the Irish sea you are located😀
@6:24 - I was curious about that sound, at first I thought it was an unhappy cow 🐮
Adnamarchan is a fast maturing whisky. At 7-8 years, it is fully grown.
I actually thought the chainsaw sound was initially some midge sound effects you’d added there Ralfy for added impact 😂
Anything (and anyone) squeaks more when they’re wetter. 🥂
Aye Ralfy, this is a young n tasty quality whisky.
Have you tried rubbing some on your skin to see what the real midgies think of it? Lol.
Never judge a whisky by its age statement? Did Ralfy actually say that? Isn't that a little bit hypocritical?
Craft is quality, mass production for mass profit by the big companies is not quality whisky these days .
Only Ardnamurchan I have is the AD sherry cask, and I find it quite ethanol'y, and it is the same with A'bunadh and Arran's Sherry Cask, and the differnet Tamdhu's, it IS a bit like they are thinking "well, the cask is more expensive than cheap bourbon casks", and make the cut a little wider, to have a larger yield, anyone else who have had that same thought....?
UK exclusive release. 😢 Should I move to Scotland for this?
Love Ardnamurchan tried a few different I like younger whisky it seems and certainly helps on the price.. my 2 favourite distilleries and whisky so far on my journey are Ardnamurchan and Glen Scotia..plan on visiting Ardnamurchan next year haven’t yet..it’s handy that they are only an hour and half drive fae us in different directions….love fae Loch Fyne x
Ralfy, you’re no Orc, you’re a Hobbit in a hole in the ground. Or better yet, you’re Tom Bombadil. Yes, that’s who you are; you’re Tom Bombadil reviewing Scotch whisky.
more peat than then normal AD, a lovely soft smoke its not overpowering the taste, if you love a ledaig this will be right up your street. The normal AD is a 50/50 mix of peated and unpeated, this is 60/40 peated and unpeated spirit. I am not a big peathead so I noticed it straight away when uncorking it...but its subtle and well worth the 40 or 50 quid it might cost you
Have you tried the Kilchoman 100% Islay 13th edition (all ex-bourbon)? Definitely gentle peat for that distillery. Beautiful stuff.
Had a go at the 10 yr old recently at a whisky event. Frankly, it was less than I would hv expected. Just my opinion.
Scapa 10 review please.
Yeah, I am really enjoying my bottle. Tropical fruits. Yummy
Last time I followed your channel I'm pretty sure you said you would never review a non age statement whiskey. What has changed?
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'Midgie' sounds like an awful Scottish camping holiday at the wrong time of year! I'm sure it's lovely but ffs 'Midgie'!?
The way this brand makes finding the age of the bottle hard to figure out is VERY irritating to me.
The whisky could pass for a dry white wine! What? The turns my interest off. I don't want to drink whisky that tastes like wine. What did I miss?
This bottling has some sauternes cask in the mix.
@@paintspot1509 And it can pass for a dry white wine, is my point, not that it was in a wine cask, that it tastes like wine. Not something I'd personally be wanting to taste.
The only ardnamurchan I tried was an AD from 2 years ago, and I really found it quite average. Nothing outstanding.
You expects an outstanding quality and taste from a 40-45 euros whisky, the problem is not the whisky but you. AD is of the best value for money whisky right now.
I'm starting to question your score marks more and more. You've brought down score marks from other integrity single malts that has age statement, non chilled, natural color to within 3 points of this whiskey in review, which isn't even a pedigree caliber whiskey. This whiskey doesn't even have an age statement let alone it's chilled filtered, hence no scotch mist. If it's not on the label, don't assume.
It says unchill-filtered right on the label.
His scores irritate me as well, just add 3 points to most whiskies and 4 to a chill filtered and colored one and you essentially have where he was. Then take away two points if it’s Springbank or one of his favorites.
I get what he’s going for… but it caused inconsistency within his historical archive.
Scan the QR code and you get detailed information about the age of the whisky.
@ why not just print that big on the front? I don’t get the logic
The review was brimming with praise so, yes, the 83 mark seems incongruous and thus surprising.