You Only Need Five Whiskies Challenge - Whisky Lock
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- Опубликовано: 29 янв 2023
- Fashionably late; here's my picks for the You Only Need Five Whiskies Challenge!
I nominate @sowlegwhiskyreview5501 and @WhiskyLoversSociety for the challenge. Also make sure to subscribe to all of these excellent channels:
GWhisky - / gwhiskytw
JeffWhisky - / jeffwhisky
SOWLEG - / channel
JustWhisky - / @justwhisky5136
Whisky Lovers Society - / @whiskyloverssociety
#whiskytube #whiskylock #Whisky #WhiskyChallenge
Awesome list. Can't agree more about the old Glenlivet 18. Absolute star, that one. Quite happy to have stowed away Ledaig 18 batch 3 myself. Incredible.
Didn't see the chocolate milk & WT101 or the white rum coming!
Cheers Shane. Glad to see you creeping up on 2k subs. Well deserved!
Yeah it's probably safe to say that I'm the only weirdo mixing Wild Turkey and chocolate milk 😂 it's very good though. Blows away all the store bought Liqueurs and is very cheap to make.
And that Wray & Nephew is wonderful stuff. Mixed or neat. Cheers Geoff 🥃
Just come from Jeff Whisky's channel to here where you get a "smashing" slap. Agree so much on the Shackleton and will be grabbing that Black Bottle!
Smashing 🗯😁 Glad to have you here 🥃
Lots of excellent choices and mentions🙂 Jacob would be thrilled about the Octomore making it in there😂 Also I just learned what Andean oak is👍
Thank you for the shout out and nomination. We haven't done this challenge, but I reckon it would be a lot of fun and come down to some pretty hard choices🙂
I look forward to your picks 😀 definitely harder than it sounds. Cheers 🥃
Soon 2000 subscribers. I follow the channel since the number 151. All the best and till 5000! or 10000!
Thank you for sticking with me Charis 😀🥃
You win the challenge for naming the overproof rum ... brilliant! 👏👏👏
🤣 some would call it cheating... I prefer 'thinking outside the box'...
Really enjoyed this. Some great personal picks and thoroughly agree with your views on older peated whiskies.
Cheers 🥃
That Ledaig 18 box is just stunning! Some fantastic bottles on there and cheers to the Shackleton buddy! Wonderful stuff 🥃🥃
It is a very nice box. Necessary? Probably not. But very fancy and beautifully presented. I'll have to make an effort to repurpose it for something after the juice is gone.
Shackleton was a great pick of yours and got me thinking about how many blended malts make really great daily drams.
And both Shackleton and Cutty are very appropriate drams for the two 'talk like a pirate' WhiskyTubers 😉
What a great list to do after many many of us made our choices too. Those Bunna Feis Ile Moines are always fantastic! Cheers!
Being one of the last you get the benefit of hindsight and the curse of trying to be original 😂
I do love Moine. Especially the older ones. Cheers 🥃
many good picks!! I love ledaig 18 batch 3, great dram with good price!!
It really is great. I'm surprised that it's still available and at a reasonable price to be honest. Well done Distell!
Enjoyed your top 15ish list…Actually lost count…sinner 😅
Got a kick out your Schtick with the white rum. Looking forward to that review!
Congrats on your 2k🎉
And also saving the best for last😂…your shoutout to my humble channel. Much appreciated!
Cheers 🥃
You're welcome John! I'm glad to see you getting the recognition you deserve and I really enjoy your videos!
Did I go over 5?! Oops! 😂
That Wray & Nephew is a revelation. I probably wouldn't have tried it (or even noticed that fantastic 63% ABV) if I hadn't had it recommended by WT. It's great neat or as a mixer though. Great flavours and instantly clears your sinuses 😂 from what I hear it's the lifeblood of Jamaica.
Cheers 🥃
"Only very special things come in dead trees, right?!"
I think, I have to add a note to my will regarding a text to put on my coffin, when that day arrives 🤔😁
Great list, Shane. Loved all the honorable mentions, it somehow added a nice "depth" to your thoughts behind the list.
Cheers! (and thanks for the text for my coffin 🤪)
😂 you're very welcome!
Well done! Especially the thing about mixers. I very seldom drink mixers at home. It's always on parties, on holidays or in bars - and it's nearly never whisky... never thought about that before! Good point! My list would be: daily: Redbreast 12 , impress a guest: Elsburn Sherry Casks 2022 ( yes, german single malt is catching up!), cheap mixer: Bulleit Rye ( if it's got to be whiskey 😉), friday night pour: Bladnoch 11 or Port Charlotte 10, if I'd like something smokey, special occasion: Bunnahabhain 25 ❤
Greetings from Rheingau (Germany) where most people prefer Riesling... 😖
German Premium Riesling is one of the best wine i ever had 👍🥂🙋🏻♂️
Hi High! 😀 Bunna 25 is a special occasion dram indeed. I've bought a couple of drams of it but not yet a whole bottle.
German single malt is something I shall have to try. I don't believe I've tried any (or really seen any) yet! Any recommendations?
Ledaig 18: 120€-130€ atm. My list: Daily: Bunna 12, Impress: Redbreast 12 CS or Glen Moray 18, Mixer: Queen Margot, Buffalo trace, Friday: Glencadam 15, Edradour Caledonia, Special: Williamson 7y (IB), Darroze 42y old Armagnac or one of my other IB-ings
I had a look and I can get Ledaig 18 for a few pennies under £80. Very good price! And great that it's still available. I have a feeling it will become harder to get in the next few years as people cotton on.
Ooh Caledonia 😍
I haven't tried Glen Moray 18 yet but I do have a bottle. Looking forward to it.
Great list 👍
@@WhiskyLock ohh still only 80pounds, maybe when i get to scotland ill grab a bottle of it then. Glen moray 18 has a nice age to show, 47% abv and is around 67€ here. great for guests
Congratulation for 2K 🤗 🎂🥂. Fantastic start in 2023 now could only be better. Another interesting topic and very practical. We need only 5 bottles but most of us got colection of dozens or even hundreds bottles so how many bottles we really need? 😋🥂🙋🏻♂️
Thanks buddy 😀 it seems like only a few weeks ago that I was at 1k. I didn't expect this.
I know my whisky collection is far bigger than it needs to be. It was never intended to be a collection at all! In 2023 sanity must win out and I will try to thin it out a little 🥃
Love the choices mate. You won't be the last, I probably will. Mine version will be out tomorrow. Cheers.
Great! Look forward to seeing what you pick 👍
Shane, I like your picks. I would really like to see your review of that Octomore as I just recently had that version along with 3 other Octomores. All four Octomore were quite different. Also a fan of Gwhisky. Slainte!
Thanks Rob! I'm terrible for having a huge list of whisky that I want to review but everything keeps getting pushed back! But I will be reviewing that Octomore 🙂 I've had it before and liked it a lot. Overpriced? Probably. But very good. I also have some samples of various X.2, X.3 and X.4 releases. Should be fun to do some comparison tastings there. The variants are quite different as you say.
And yes GWhisky is great! Slainte Mhath 🥃
Congratulations on reaching 2000 subs.
Thank you David! Seems like only a few days ago we were celebrating 1k 🥳
Great List !
My List of Today would be :
Daily: Bunnahabhain Cruach Mhóna
Impress my Guest: Ben Riach Solstice 17
Mixer: Deanston Virgin Oak
Friday Night: Kilchoman Sanaig
Special: Longmorn 22yo Single Cask CS Bourbon matured (IB)
Great picks buddy 👍🥃
Great pics! I have the Ledaig 18 “Batch Two Spanish Sherry Wood Finish” that I consider good value even at $110, altho I wish it had more than 46.3%. My Longrow 18 “Heavily Peated” was the most mushroomy I’ve ever tasted, so much that I thought it went bad due to the damaged cork BUT after decanting and waiting it’s been settling down enormously - patience can be incredibly well-rewarded in the WhiskyVerse!
I get those mushroom notes from Longrow 18 too. And almost a sliced tomato, metallic note at times. I remember when I first tried it and found it incredibly odd but came to love it 😀
Very much agree that patience and airing can really help a lot of whisky.
Hi Shane, love your take on this. Great picks, kudos! My experience with Laphroaig is a bit different though. Older expressions tend to have a tropical fruitiness and complexity that the 10CS simply can’t touch on. Granted, my experience is with the 25yo bottled in 2017 (48,9%) and the 30yo bottled around that same time (43%), so I can’t comment on contemporary expressions really. But to me, an old Laphroaig is really something special!
Hi Wouter. I did actually think of you after I said that about Laphroaig because I know you like your old Laphies 😉
Old Laphroaig is good stuff for sure but when it comes to old peaters I do prefer some other distilleries. For me, the joy in Laphroaig is in the young, punchy stuff. I'm feel the exact opposite about Lagavulin interestingly.
Good point about those fruity notes in old Laphroaig though. I feel that's a combination of the long maturation as well as a changing house style. But you're right that you don't get it in the current younger stuff, which is a shame.
I always find I struggle with something like this for two reasons: I'm sure a lot of people share the problem that their list would be different on different days, but I also tend not to treat whiskies differently depending on things like price and I like variety above all, so I tend to dot about between bottles that others would put in different categories... However:
Easy Sipper (most days I don't drink, so Daily Dram doesn't work): Speyburn 18 or anything from Thompson Bros.;
Impress Your Guests (I could slot the Special Occasion ones in here): A.H. Hirsch 1974 16-year-old bourbon (for those who know American whiskey) or Benromach 1974 41-year-old single cask (vying for most impressive wooden box!);
Cheap Mixer (since I was diagnosed as diabetic, I have tended to avoid mixed drinks, as finding good diet mixers isn't easy): Famous Grouse or Gosling's Black Seal rum (for a Dark & Stormy, of course);
Friday Night Pour (again, not something I do often): GlenDronach 18 Allardice or Glengoyne Teapot Dram;
Special Occasions: I have two 'Birthday Drams' - Highland Park The Dragon 1961 and Ledaig 42 Dùsgadh.
Only the final category is likely to remain the same for as long as I can make them last...
I agree. IMHO the more you get accustomed to whisky, the more you appreciate and the more diverse and varied your preferences become. That's my experience anyway.
Some truly great choices there. Cheers 🥃
Hey Shane. I will definitely do the video. I do realise that it is not going to be easy.
Hi Gert! I look forward to your choices 🙂
The Wild Turkey sounds like a good mixer. You want something which will punch through. I wonder if Classic Laddie would be good on the scotch side...
Yeah totally agree on the need to 'punch through'. That's a good call on Classic Laddie. Probably not going to clash with anything and the 50% ABV and reasonable price make it a good candidate 👍
Good whiskey should not be mixed. Not even ice or a drop of water. What I mean is, if it's "a good mixer", it's bad whiskey.
@@rickwilliams967 I like to add a drop of water to Wild Turkey 101. It causes the nose to really bloom into a potpourri
@@raeraeraeth waste of time dude.
@@raeraeraeth and honestly, would you notice the difference between the two of you has a blind test of one with water and one without? I doubt it.
Ledaig is not sold here. I'd never heard of it until I started watching RUclips videos. No Springbank product here at all, either. The only Campbeltown available is Glen Scotia 15, which is quite nice. I'm happy with Laguvulin 16 for my special occasions, but I'm not the peat fan you obviously are. I'm one of those sherry bombers. My core is Auchentoshan Three Wood, Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban, and Bunnahabhain 12. I've recently been surprised and pleased by Glenmorangie Nectar d'Or. Offroad, I'd recommend Stranahan's Colorado whiskey.
Bunna 12 is great 🙂
Surprised by Nectar D'Or? You and me both! It doesn't sound like it'll be good but it really is. I have an open bottle at the moment and love it. Cheers 🥃
I drank Wray & Nephew in Port Antonio for years with my Jamaican wife.. ALL THE LOCALS DRANK OVERPROOF....and coke...1983-87..
101 is great for guests...
Craiggie 13..daily drinker..
Impress...Signet..
Friday..Billy Walker era Glendronachs...12, 18, 21 flight
Special occasion...every night is special when you get past 65..
I have nothing but specials on my shelf...
Wray & Nephew is great stuff. It almost certainly won't fill this role for many, but it's been my casual go to dram lately. Not just a cheap mixer 😉
Great picks, especially those old Glendronachs. Here's to our health and many more years 🥃
Hey...If you're going with rum, I'll go with my favorite mixer, Bombay Sapphire. That's about the only thing I really DO mix. I lurve me summer gin & tonix.
After knocking around the markets and sampling widely, I finally tracked down my favorite Friday Night Pour is Benromach 12. That's where I get my whiff of peat smoke. That's just what I've been looking for.
You know I don't think I've ever had Bombay Saphire. I'll give it a go some time.
I have been having a play with making some High Balls recently though. Very frowned upon by most enthusiasts 🙂 but Dave Broom recommends it and I can see why. It's a nice change to have a chilled long drink and you can get some interesting flavours out of the mix.
Yep Benromach is great 👍 Cheers
Wray and Nephew! Big up.
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The Ardbeg 17 yr is $2000 NZ down here...
Yeah that's insane and far more than I would consider. I can get a bottle for £650 which is still too much. It's just a drink.
It is unique and worth trying if you ever see it in a bar. It is an eye opener with those flavours of yesteryear and the way it carries SO much flavour at just 40%. But there are equally enjoyable but different whiskies for much less 👍
The best mixer for me is my infinity bottle :)
Great idea! Creating an economical in house blend is a skill worth perfecting 👌
101% agreed M8. Its what i do. 😁🥂🙋🏻♂️
I actually just had that Ardbeg 17. when i visited friends and family back in Europe a couple of weeks back… it was a 50ml sample which came with an Ardbeg 10 10-15 years ago…. We drank it but unfortunately i couldn’t spend enough time with it to appreciate it in its full glory…I know…. What a sacrilege! 😢
My list from my own stash:
Every day: Ancnoc 12
Imp the guest: Got a single cask Ardnamurchan peated. Or that Glenlivet 12 from the 80ies. So different and better than the current shtuff. Or some of the basic Springbanks. Kinda impressive these days 😂
Cheap mixer: hmm… Glenlivet Something or Glenfiddich 12. or Jameson… Ha!
Friday: kilkerran 12 followed by something peaty
Special: Lagavulin 12 batch 2017. i know… Lagavulin kinda sucks lately but that bottle is precious to me not necessarily only because of the whisky in it.
Ask me tomorrow and the list will change 100%
Great video! I’m a fan! 🎉
Ah that's painful to hear 😂 but at least you did enjoy it. I know the exact gift set you mean. I've reviewed both miniatures in that set and they were both superb. Even the miniature of the 10yo was very different to the modern 10 because it was produced a long time ago from old stock. I still have the tin and empty bottles.
Thanks for the kind words 🙂
@@WhiskyLock aaah yes…. I found it. It was in the hatless and beardless times…. Will watch it and see if i can remember it.
Unfortunately it is impossible go get these rare minis here in NZ.
Cheers!
@@kiwigor yes a video from my youth 😂
So you like the over banana ripe funky adventure, same here. Check out Lemon Hart 151 if you can find it, good stuff.
Absolutely! I really enjoy Wray and Nephew. I also have a bottle off Clairin Communal. It's only 43% but has even more of that overripe banana funk. Very unusual and a lot of fun.
I haven't had Lemon Hart 151. I'll see if I can find it. Thanks for the recommendation 🥃
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What is one distillery everyone else is impressed with that has consistently underwhelmed you?
Great question. I'm generally able to appreciate most styles of whisky so I don't think I have too many unpopular opinions like that. The closest one would probably be Balvenie? They're a very well thought of distillery and they're capable of great whisky but I find it hard to get excited about their low ABV releases (which is too many of them).
Same reasoning with Bowmore. They seem to be trying to convince us that they're a premium, prestige distillery but they rarely do anything that's both affordable and great.
And Ardmore and Scapa seem determined to not give us anything worth buying but I don't think many people are impressed by them outside of Independent Bottlings 😉
What are your picks?
@@WhiskyLock Old Pulteney, which is consistently to salty, and Kilchoman. I can understand Scapa and Ardmore. Balvenie 12 is what I like to use to make rusty nails. Your perspective of Bowmore surprises me.
@@benjamincarter6095 ah I love Kilchoman. What don't you like about it?
True Pulteney has that salty maritime edge but I think perhaps less these days than in the past.
My problem with Bowmore is that the 12 doesn't work at 40% for me. I don't know why they don't sell something like Legend, No1 or Small Batch at 40% and boost the 12, 15 and 18 to 46% and up the price a little. All problems solved 👌 as it is, if I want something that's not underpowered from Bowmore I'm looking at silly money. I tried one of the Devil's Cask releases. I think it was #3 with a mid 50s ABV and it was very, very good! Significantly better than the 18yo. But also incredibly expensive. I just want something in between those two extremes 🙂 almost all other distilleries have at least one reasonably priced product that's 46% and NCF by now...
@@WhiskyLock Machir Bay is described as smoothe or delicate by many. For me, it is slightly acidic bordering on acrid, and entirely unmemorable. Sanaig is just another sherry scotch. I appreciate scotches that solidly represent their region and I find Kilchoman underwhelming, especially for an Islay. It feels like an Islay trying to be a Speyside. I'm not sure that is a fair evaluation, but it's never sat right with me. Regardless, it no longer has a place on my shelf. I gave my last bottle to a friend I knew would appreciate it more than I. To each their own.
@@benjamincarter6095 kilchoman acrid? Yep and I love it 🙂 really is one of its endearing features to me. I agree with you about Sanaig though. It's got a bit of sherry but not a lot, a bit of Malt but not a lot, a bit of peat... but not a lot. Too middle of the road for me and I don't see who it's for. Everything else by Kilchoman I love though. To each their own, as you say 👍