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Quaich1
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 Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 6:38 pm Post subject: Robbie Burns Day at Hand-What Dram(s) are ye pouring? |
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Well, Robbie Burns Day day has come and with it time to celebrate with a dram or two.
What have you decided to pour?
My selections are :
Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban
Glenmorangie Nectar D'or
Highland Park 18
All the Best to all Forum Members on this special Day!
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Charlie
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Drinking some Springbank 10, i suppose it should be Isle of Arran but Springbank isnt to far away from Arran and Ayrshire |
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minesascotch
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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Tonight I will be drinking
Glenfarclas 17
Highland Park 18
Talisker 18
Gi'e me a spark o' natures fire.
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Mark
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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| No haggis but a few drams, now drinking the Benromach 25 |
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bifter
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Today was a big day for us as we moved out of our house so I'm celebrating the successful completion of the sale with Maxwell 33 and probably a Highland Park 18.
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Grant M
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We had a couple of programs on BBC 2 tonight about Burns links to Ulster, we had "An Ode To Burns And Ulster" then an Eddi Reader program again about Burns influence on Ulster poets.
Drinking Talisker 18 |
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Quaich1
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Grant M wrote: | We had a couple of programs on BBC 2 tonight about Burns links to Ulster, we had "An Ode To Burns And Ulster" then an Eddi Reader program again about Burns influence on Ulster poets.
Drinking Talisker 18 |
Sounds like great programming Grant. I'm hoping there will be something on TV re Robbie Burns here in Ontario tonight (its only 6:06 pm now).
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albo
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| I was \ am away for Burns nigh at a wee hotel that has a rather impressive selection of single malts, over 100 or so they boast. Anyway after viewing the menu, I saw they had a Brora 1982 I'd never had a Brora, I was impressed |
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Quaich1
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| Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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| albo wrote: | | I was \ am away for Burns nigh at a wee hotel that has a rather impressive selection of single malts, over 100 or so they boast. Anyway after viewing the menu, I saw they had a Brora 1982 I'd never had a Brora, I was impressed |
Alun, is that the 26 year old Brora (1982) by Connoisseurs Choice (Gordon and MacPhail)?
Sounds like a gem.
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albo
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I'm not sure which one it was as I didn't see the bottle, but it was v good. I also had a Glenfarclas 105 as a night cap too!
I've actually just been to a whisky shop which had over 300 malts on sale, spent a while browsing and chatting to the guy who worked there, he took me into the 'fine wine' room out the back where they had a few dozen older and much more expensive whiskies, the 40 to 60 year old range, upwards of £5000 a bottle, nice to look but a little out of my price range.
May head back there later to pick something up, not sure yet though, but the guy was talking about their own bottling of 21yr old Springbank which sounded excellent. |
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Quaich1
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| albo wrote: | I'm not sure which one it was as I didn't see the bottle, but it was v good. I also had a Glenfarclas 105 as a night cap too!
I've actually just been to a whisky shop which had over 300 malts on sale, spent a while browsing and chatting to the guy who worked there, he took me into the 'fine wine' room out the back where they had a few dozen older and much more expensive whiskies, the 40 to 60 year old range, upwards of £5000 a bottle, nice to look but a little out of my price range.
May head back there later to pick something up, not sure yet though, but the guy was talking about their own bottling of 21yr old Springbank which sounded excellent. |
I wouldn't mind having a look at that "fine wine" room. During my recent trip to Montreal, I brought back a bottle of Glenfaclas 105, a powerful and tasty dram.
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k1ranki
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Arran Bere.
Official bottlers for the Burns Federation and (perhaps) more authentic than anything else being offered, if you want to step back in time. I've tried it and was pleasantly surprised ....definitely different and a top dram. |
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Quaich1
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| k1ranki wrote: | Arran Bere.
Official bottlers for the Burns Federation and (perhaps) more authentic than anything else being offered, if you want to step back in time. I've tried it and was pleasantly surprised ....definitely different and a top dram. |
Interesting reference. Here's a further brief blurb about it:
http://www.arranwhisky.com/ArranNews.aspx?NewsId=122
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