ralfy review 784 Extras - How to make a great malt last !
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Congrats on the 10th anniversary!
I second that notion!! Happy Ten Years!!
Seconding that!
Happy anniversary dear Ralfy!
Hi Ralfy: Spot on observation:“ Just have the money and spend the money is not an indicator of good taste“, like it.
Hes a real rolemodel to look up to. Very much respect for him.
Ralfy, love the vlogs been watching for 9 years (had to binge watch year one) One thing maltmates do is meet with friends and share - which is the number one best part about the malts - the times and the sense of place we gather from the malt. Had you ever considered taking a malt and talking about the memories or the sense of place that they bring to you and the people and memories you think about - maybe even inviting the people/person in as a guest for that particular vlog ,and then discussing the spirit of the spirit?
"Omigod" Ralfy dear! First you use my malt mention (I'm formerly "mark5ization"), then you give "Lord of the Isles" the third-highest (?) malt mark in all your reviews (a couple tied with 95?)...this is my favorite Ralfy review E-V-E-R!! (-and there are lots of candidates for that honour). Thank you, good sir!
Thanks for the knowledge Ralfy! Enjoy your expertise in enjoying a fine dram.
learning much from you , Professor. you'll be coming up on a dozen years this summer and you are just getting started ! this spirit is exceptional and in accordance, deserves an exceptional malt mark as do you , my friend.
Hi Ralfy.
Love your reviews seen hundreds.
But I have noticed your bothy is getting darker and darker.
Time to get the limewash out to give us that cosy feel again. 🤗
Keep up the good work.
Same product I use on my open bottles. Only thing is once you blast the bottle if you tilt the bottle to much or the whisky sloshes around you'll break the blanket seal. I suggest you apply it once you place the bottle back on the shelf where you store it.
Enjoyed this review and that whisky
I can confirm that gas mix does work. I use it on my expensive single cask Glendronachs, 34+ yo Linkwood and Caol Ila.
a little sceptical: the info I have about the can Ralfie has suggests the gas is just Nitrogen, which is slightly lighter than air and thus will not form a stable blanket; Argon is heavier than air and so would. Is my info right?
@@daverobert6761 I have same container. Its a mix of 3 gases.... carbon dioxide, nitrogen and argon
@@haydnball990 Thanks - that makes sense, I shall get some now!
Wow! If a bottle lasts me a year after I open it up for the first time that's a long time! Slainte Mhath, Ralfy!
Outstanding, congratulations. Your wonderful reviews, have helped, and encouraged my whiskey journey. Thankyou.
It surely is a statement to open a bottle that would make you hundreds of pounds of profit in an auction. Congrats for the integrity.
Nice shake up, Ralfy!
I bet sunny days happen in Scotland as often as rainy days happen in the States. It works.
"The ordinary appreciation of extraordinary things is a skill that everybody and anybody can master... if they have the MOTIVATION." This is bible-vintage information, people, spoken by a true prophet of an OLD, bygone school whisky appreciation. Bamsticks and philistines be gone; we're on the road to the REAL Promised Land of Whisky and we've done with iced-tumblers and cola-splashes! Nary a drop of E150, un-chill filtered and 46% of that which should rightfully be there (for the asking price!)... 'tis the only way to the grail. Slainte Mhath, Ralfy!
There hasn't really been wormwood in any major commercially available Absinth since about WWI.
Wormwood was (at least partly) the reason many countries (but never Britain) banned it - ignoring that it could be some 70 % abv.
To my taste, there are a lot of other fould-tasting ingredients in Absinth but no wormwood.
Eivind Kaisen I’ve seen wormwood absinthe before in stores, small bottlers do it still. Though there are two varieties of the plant and I’m not sure which is being used these days.
Bamstick lol, not heard that one for a while. Nice one, ya radge ;-)
Holy shit, 95!
Just came across your review of this wonderfull whisky. I hope to be able to taste it once in my life. I will try to "replicate"it as you mentioned in the other review. Late congrats on your 10th anniversary, although it is almost the 11th. Looking forward to years to come and it happens that your anniversary is my birthday. Will celebrate both with a dram of dark cove. Really happy with the gas tip. Gonna last my special whisky's for years.
While I'd love an opportunity to try a sip of this bottle, I'm certain I don't have anything close to the nose nor pallet to appreciate as you say it deserves. Perhaps someday I will advance beyond sipping and saying "Hooo, that's nice hooch." Enjoy.
Thank you friend. As always a great integrity review, and the sharing of knowledge I have never found anywhere else. I hope to one day have the capacity to appreciate a whisky such as this. Cheers Ralfy!
Great topic!
First congrats, and of course, love the review! I really appreciate your insight on your methodology for preserving the quality of the spirit for years to come, so a bottle can be revisited and enjoyed over the years. I have a handful of older bottles that I only visit once or twice a year and found gassing them the best. In addition to gassing the spirit, do you wrap some in parafilm or find it overkill? Cheers.
Times flies..
Wow Congrats again. I could almost taste it with you...great review.
It will never happen but i'd love a taste of that. I seriously doubt i will ever get my hands on something that good any time soon.
Ten years Ralfy ? well good for you, hears to ten more : )
John Robinson find something limited now and hold it a decade and you will!
❤❤ To good health ralfy this coming 2024
Ralfy: Rock Town has come out with a bourbon that is 82% corn and 18% peated malt.
Now, here's me being curious! You tried it?
@@fredlabosch5164 Not yet but will.
It’s been 3 years. How much of the bottle do you have left?
That was a dram tastic review Ralfy...😎👍
Great video, Ralfy.
I've read/watched a few reviews on using private preserve on whiskey/brandy and almost all of them said that the gassed liquor tasted worse than the non-gassed one (including one by the Scotch Test Dummies channel). The hypothesis was that the gas dissolves into the drink and affects its taste. For those of you who have tried it, what do you all think?
. . . I have never had a problem.
@@thewhiskybothy Thanks for the response! Have you found any difference between the 100% Argon gas versus the Private Preserve which is a mixture of nitrogen, CO2 and Argon? It seems dissolved CO2 (such as that in carbonated drinks) could potentially alter the PH...
Ralfy if keeping an opened bottle for a long period of time, does evaporation happen in the bottle? If yes does the gas help in preventing this as well.Congrats on your 10th
. . . some evapouration will happen in fluctuating or high temperatures, the gas helps a little bit !
Ralfy, followed you from the beginning. Laphroig 10, !! Thanks!!
Watching this with a dram of Uigedail (bottled 2003) by my side. Poor man’s choice fir this.
ralfy can you explain in a video the difference of a dunnage warehouse and a
so called palletised warehouse,thanks in advance.
. . . will do later on !
The best way to make a great malt last is if you drink a bottle of a cheap one first. Then you will have no more room in your tummy for the great malt. IQ200!:)
Hello ralfy appreciation for your uploads and top content
If you spray some gas in there and let it sit for years, how do you ensure the cork is occasionally moistened to stop it from drying out? I understand we need to tip our bottles once a month or so to maintain the corks, but that would disrupt the gas blanket, no?
. . . no it won't as the blanket will re-settle.
Ralfy! Are you ever going to review Springbank 15???
I second that! Surprised to see no review for such a classic
@@richardhead9818 Obviously not such a 'classic' in his view...
And I can understand why that just is....
@@fredlabosch5164 you are clearly a great anorac. I humbly await your explanation, should you chose to grace me with it.
@@richardhead9818 hello there. May I ask what's an anorac?
@@richardhead9818 In my book, the 15 has always been below par, especially in direct comparison to the 10 year old. The batch variation has always been somewhat disproportionate, you can tell just by looking at the colour of several batches throughout the years, therefore a recognizable character has never been established for the 15 year old.
Some batches were very 'refill' (herbacious) and light in character, some were pronounced in sherry but lacking refinement, others were almost devoid of typical Springbank traits. And none of the batches I tried matched the undistinguishable character and balance of the 10 year old.
Great review
Cheers my friend
Hello from NY, love the channel
So I wanted to know on the subject of caring for ones whiskey, a friend had a bottle of Glenlivet 25 in his car for the past 4 months and it can get hot and humid here and was wondering if that time may have corrupted the liquids integrity and quality
Thanx so much
Yes, unfortunately. -But if it was The Macallan 25 that would be even worse ;-O
Today, a well-known spirit shop from London advertised that in the following week a 13yo 2006 Daftmill single malt will be on sale for 161 euros. Just sent an e-mail about these astronomical prices to Daftmill distillery. This is getting out of control and we need to do something about this.
Um, good luck with that :-/
welcome to 2019
Was wondering if transferring the contents of an open bottle to several smaller bottles (filled to the neck) might be another option to preserve?
David Kasman it is another option indeed !
That works too, personally it's easier just to use the gas and one still gets the pleasure of the original bottle.
I've never seen these canisters in even specialist wine shops here in Israel. I wonder if they are available here?
I have had a few single malts which I would have loved to have preserved and unfornuately have let oxigise too much and ruined. I can thnk of a Laphroaig Cask Strength, an 18 YO and a Caol Ila Cask Strength. On the other hand, I had a Gordan and McPhail's Single Cask Caol Ila 14 whch when I first opened it and for the next three months, it was awful. Complelety closed and lacking cask interaction. I thought it was a poor cask and pretty much abandoned it. Some four months later I wanted to make some room in my cabinet so I thought I'd bring it out and serve it around ata family meal. Wow! I could not believe this was the same whisky.
Perhaps an online e-tailer may have them. Amazon does but the shipping rates maybe prohibitive.
Yum. One of my favs too.
Why don't you give a mark to each dram you have from this bottle? You could pour, smell, taste, mark it, sqoosh the bottle and let it sit till next time. This way you could do a mean of the marks and pull out more information for the malt mates.
The thumbs-down button on this video became a philistine counter 😏
Nice one! A REALLY nice one mate... ;)
Yeah same for me it was a bit snobbish and funnily enough in bad taste
It would be pretty 'ard work to beg Rafy for a glass.
Hi Ralfy, do you think that Ardbeg would be capable of making a whisky like this nowadays?
. . . They should be able to, but I doubt it !
Some of the whisky tubers say that the Ardbeg Galileo is some of the best it be interesting to see if you can taste lord of the owl head-to-head for comparison
Congrats on the 10th anniversary from me too Ralfy! I'm a bit of an Ardbeg fan, I suppose the gentleman above might have something to do with it 乁(ツ)ㄏ Kicked off my peated journey with the Ardbeg 10 & I later purchased the Uigeadail. Took hold of the AN OA but I still have to crack it open, & I'm also looking forward to get my hands on the Corryvreckan soon. l've actually just sampled the Laphroaig 25 YO Cask Strength (2015 Release) & it pretty much knocked me socks off. Thank you for all these magical malt moments Ralfy, can't get enough of them!
Is this his highest rating?
Ok, Lord of the Isles, nice one. But what I am really interested in is the small 10yo (?) Malt Mates bottle staring at me all the time. ;)
Apart from the wonderful Daftmill...wait, what a combination this would be!
. . . thats my 10th Anniversary bottle of whisky reviews at ralfydotcom !
So will there be a bottling? Or is this one just for festive decoration? ;)
. . . decoration.
@@thewhiskybothy oh no. I was hoping...everytime I hope this happens 😢
Just another Ardbeg I cannot afford.....😳
Bad Santa your username is very appropriate!😎🥃
1873rd!
♥️
Is this the highest Malt Mark we have seen from the Bathy?
. . . not quite !
Watch all of his videos to find out what the highest is!
I'd like to see Ralfy drinking in the bathy 😂
@@newhey NOOOOOOOOOO
@@newhey I think he does that in pretty much every review - actually no, he sips and savours :-)
I'm a malty maloderous marauding millipede!!
Honoured, sir (or ma'am), honoured! (see above)
. . . now on the M-mention List !
Where to buy gas in New Zealand🥃😕
Anthony Jordan coopathome
At a petrol station (hahaha!! -sorry)
I don't about the gas but Whisky test Dummies are testing that with Laphroig. By the first taste the whisky with gas lost some flavour (they say)
. . . that has not been my experience, my flavour has held intact over years !
@@thewhiskybothy what do you think about vacuum stoppers maybe its interesting as you don't add nothing
Hi Ralfy. How much does that Private Preserve cost please? Never seen it before. Cheers.
Lee Clarke you can order it here in the US on Amazon. Don’t recall the cost exactly in USD but wasn’t expensive at all. Some of our local retail shops with large wine selections also carry it.
I hope you smash that bottle when you finish it, gotta stop those dastardly fakers!
That deserves multiple mentions! I'll have to remember to break the empties before throwing away.
@@alexk3088 For normal bottles it isn't such a big deal for me - but if I have something that I know is going up in the secondly market / is remotely collectable, I break the bottle before recycling - just to give the fakers a middle finger.
Good point. You could also remove the label and save that as a souvenir. 👍
I saw a bottle of Balvenie 12 part-filled with epoxy in the window of an antique store. Some bottles look good as souvenirs. Or made into lamps.
Ralfy,
Do you have a problem with Richard Paterson? Yes I do hahaha
Cheers to all whisky lovers who can't afford to waste any sort of whisky.
If they're good, we drink it neat and buy them again. If they're bad, we just add some mixers, finished the bottle, move on and don't buy them again.
Live life!
I don't think Ralfy has a problem with anyone. Paterson on the other hand i think has a problem with Ralfy because of Ralfy's integrity.
whts the name of the gas and where to get it? thanks
Private Preserve gas is often available a better wine merchants or even Amazon.
the scotch test dummies tried to use the preservative gas and their experiment went wrong maybe it's a temperature thing
@MontalbanJR agree just wish I would have thought of it first
Whiskey is an organic compound and like everything else that relies on chains of carbon it probably decomposes slower at a colder temperature than at a hotter temperature and the scotch test dummies are located in Kansas in the USA which gets a lot hotter than Scotland
@@danswank3378 but houses in the US have air conditioning. Disclaimer: I don't watch much of their stuff and didn't see that video. But I'm not putting any gas into my whisky, come what may.
@@alexk3088 There is already gas in your whiskey. It's commonly known as air. 😉
@@sergeiiakimenko3648 air typically doesn't introduce off-flavors. Oxygen can gradually change a spirit, but frequently it changes for the better before going south. These gas cans theoretically should only displace the air but I'm just not convinced.
I think you could detect global warming by tasting the old malts and the current malts! Wood is never the same
It won't last at my bar no matter what you do.
Really enjoying your reviews, but nitrogen (H2) and carbonoxide (CO/CO2) are not inert gases.
. . . context - inert in their effect on (oxidasation) of whisky, and preventing it.
Nitrogen is N2 and is chemically inert unless you strike it with a lightning bolt. CO2 - somewhat inert, certainly more than O2, but I have my doubts about it around organic molecules and light... CO2 with water is a weak acid and will react with something. CO - no way, but I doubt it's in the mix. Why couldn't they just use nitrogen or argon? Chemically I'd trust N2 or one of the noble gases, but I worry about the propellants, my guess is that CO2 is a propellant here.
@@alexk3088 Let's hope you chemically distrusting them will not ruin their chemical lives!🤭 CO2 is a heavy gas hence it is actually what creates a blanket over whiskey
@@sergeiiakimenko3648 that is a good point but argon is also heavier than air and truly inert. I don't see the need for CO2.
VineyardFresh claims to only contain Argon.
Slightly disappointed you rated it on a neck pour. As you state you need a few glasses to really pin down the subtler notes that you don’t get on a first pour. So does that mean it’s a 96 or 97??? Unlike you Ralfy. Maybe you have been swept away with the romanticism of the progeny of this amazing dram?? Like you tasted it 10 years ago on Islay.
Sure. Whisky is an experience and it comes with memories and so on. And it is his whisky and his opinion and mark :)
Jakub k what you say is not incorrect. But the old Ralfy would never have rated a whisky on a neck pour. If indeed it is a 95 then it’s bound to be even better in a week or so. Just sayin maltmate that it’s not like Ralfy to get caught up in the moment and succumb to sentimental tendencies. This is not a cristicim. It is an opinion!
Interesting , but are you professional/trained chemist, or just sharing your own experience? What is your education to make all this advice? I mean, what kind of position are you to call someone else philistines....
I've had better advice from the know it all drunk from the local pub, of course drink just gets better the further down the glass goes., 94, no lets give it 95.