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Here's another for the smoky fans from this week

Never tried that one, but looking at some reviews I think I may need to try it!

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By far my favourite distillery (because of their attitude and outrageous enthusiasm!) and my favourite peats whisky. The most heavily prayed in the world, and still last week at a whisky tasting night I ran it was the most popular with everyone. And these were NON whisky drinkers, a population who usually abhors peated whisky, that ended up loving it more than others like glenlivet 18yo.

In the downside, it's expensive! But a great treat.

Is it a bruichladdich? Machrie moor from Arran is a great peaty dram also.

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Yep octomore range made by Bruichladdich

Just made an order for some 'tasting' sets. Have the following coming to me this week.

Laphroaig Triple Wood
Oban 14 Year Old
Balvenie DoubleWood 17 Year Old
Nikka Taketsuru 21 Year Old
Yamazaki 12 Year Old
Miyagikyo 10 Year Old
Yoichi 10 Year Old
Hakushu 12 Year Old

Laphroaig Triple Wood is one I desperately need to get hold of myself! I love Laphroaig, both the standard and the Quarter Cask, but the Triple Wood is one I need to try as all the reviews are excellent. I'll be interested in hearing your thoughts on it, Aadam.

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To be honest, i really wasn't a fan. I know lots of people love it, but I found the sherry notes in it ruined it. Much prefer the 10yo, QC or the 18yo.



I love Oban, just nice and lightly peated.
I haven't tried the Nikka 21yr old, but have tried the 'Nikka from the barrel' (which I bought because my wife liked the bottle shape lol) - it was an interesting flavour. Different from scotch whisky. Not stunning, but worth trying. It's only ~10-12yrold though, so I'm sure the 21yr old will be stunning.

Haven't tried either of the Miyagikyo or Yoichi, but have tried the Hakashu which I prefered over the Yamazaki.

Speaking of Yamazaki, thought you guys might appreciate a quick tour
The distillery is built on the side of a mountain in a smaller town, reached by the train from Osaka. Here's the train station

A ~10 minute walk gets you to the Distillery


They have a HUGE library of whisky, one of the largest in the world. They've collected sample from all over the world from major and minor distilleries and bottled them all on display

e.g. Laphroaig

The actual tour was a tad disappointing, mainly because it was done in a rather large group, and you had to stay behind the barriers at all times and couldnt walk up and touch things like we could in the Scottish distilleries. Thankfully they had a english audiotape with headphones available for us (although if you've seen a few distilleries you could just skip on the audio as it's the same as most Diageo tours).





I still enjoyed going though, for both the stunning grounds of the distillery, and also to see the Japanese take on whisky (very modernised and computer controlled - as you'd expect from Japan)

The warehouse:

I always love how cool and damp it is in these warehouses... usually my favourite part of the tour, especially after the hot humidity of the still room!

The beautiful grounds in November

Danbo is a small figurine my wife and I take on holidays... we don't like trying to take photos of ourselves whilst overseas, and so use either him or watches as a photoprop to bring some life to otherwise dull photos.

Unfortunately even Danbo was disappointed when we were ushered into the tasting room, eagerly to finally taste Yamazaki's wares... only to be served it in a large glass watered down with soda water!

In fact that was the only way in which they offered it, not even on the rocks or neat. I worked up enough nerve to say a nervous "sumimasen!" and to ask for a glass of the whisky neat (which my wife tells me in Japan is quite rude, as it implies the host didn't cater for you properly... but oh well, I was here to taste their whisky not their soda water!). The request for neat whisky was met with a bit of raised eyebrow by the staff, who then politely poured me a dram and went to add ice. When I explained politely that I didn't want ice this was met with even more surprise! "no ice?!?! ooooh!" The look they gave me was the same look you'd give someone who walks up to the hottest chili in a fair and asks to eat it straight.
Thankfully they obliged and did pour me some neat. (but only soda water for mini-danbo who's under 18!)

Sniffing the whisky...


The end!

That's interesting Dr J. I like very peated and smokey single malts, so maybe the Triple Wood won't appeal to me either. I think a tasting bottle instead of a full bottle is the way to go in the first instance.

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In stock and ready for next day delivery. This is where I've ordered all my samples from.

http://www.masterofmalt.com/whiskies/la ... ood/?srh=1

Dr J thank you for sharing those pictures

Cannot wait to try these out over the next couple of weeks. It's a shame I don't have anyone local to me that would appreciate these as much as me. It'd be nice to have a whiskey partner.