What was your latest addition to your whisky collection?

hwchoy · May 29 2017 at 5:17AM

this is very delicious. I wonder how the 18 goes up against this.

wallacema · May 29 2017 at 8:38AM

Yes it is delicious and easy to drink. You would demand more after having the first sip of it. But on the other hand, I think this one lack of character.

I haven't try the 18 years old, but I found it double the price of the 15 years old one. I guess the 18 y.o. one will be more sherry and oily?

Slàinte_Mhath · May 29 2017 at 7:14PM

wallacema said:
You should open the Caol Ila to celebrate the recent addition to your collection, Haha.

I've already done that with my Auchentoshan 17 yo 1999 from Cadenhead's. I was about to put it on its designated place when I suddenly decided to pop the cork and make it my 'summer whisky 2017'. That Caol Ila, however, will be kept for very special occasions. Too expensive for an everydays dram...

Cheers!

hwchoy · May 30 2017 at 12:25AM

@wallacema

I have an 18 but yet to open it. thinking now should it be scheduled for the next opened bottles.

wallacema · May 31 2017 at 2:25AM

@SlàinteMhath

How is Auchentoshan taste?

Haha, I am just a beginner in whisky tasting and a 30 y.o. whisky is too expensive to me either.

wallacema · May 31 2017 at 2:26AM

@hwchoy

Seems that you have stock up a lot. :lol:

hwchoy · May 31 2017 at 9:37AM

@wallacema

:biggrin: according to my records I have 34 unopened bottles but I am not sure how many I will actually get to drink

wallacema · May 31 2017 at 10:25AM

@hwchoy

OMG. You are a real collector.

Which bottle is for collection only and you will definitely not to open?

Slàinte_Mhath · June 1 2017 at 6:19AM

wallacema said:

@hwchoy
OMG. You are a real collector.

'Real' collectors have hundreds if not thousands of bottles in their collection. I am not one of them. Whiskies are meant to be drunk, not to collect dust on a shelf.

hwchoy · June 1 2017 at 6:32AM

@wallacema

no no I am not collecting. they are my stash for giving to customers when necessary. but some I would be tempted to drink myself hahah.

only two bottles are meant to be kept for daughter to drink when she grows up. one is a Laphroaig 21 Friends of Laphroaig, she opens that when she's 21. then she was born in 2015 during Singapore's 50th Anniversary, Dalmore released a special SG50 Pioneer Edition bottling and I even managed to obtain a copy signed by Richard Paterson, this one she will open when she's 50, during Singapore's 100th Anniversary. If I try very hard I might just make it :biggrin:

Talk about long term planning.