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sheepsteeth

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wife RE bought me (and her strictly speaking) a whiskey tasting at albannach for me birfdee. it is 7 different whiskeys presented by a sommelier and i reckon it will be ace followed by a day of sight seeing and what-not.

Anonymous

Whiskey, followed by blind drunk sight seeing? awesome

Arkady001

Sounds good...

Can't beat a good 12-yr Speyside malt IMO...

thekickingmule

sheepsteeth wrote:

Rate my Gift

wife RE bought me (and her strictly speaking) a whiskey tasting at albannach for me birfdee. it is 7 different whiskeys presented by a sommalian pirate and i reckon it will be ace followed by a day of sight seeing and what-not.

Sounds fun!

CraigXXL

For someone who wasn't into whiskey until last year you seem to be making up for lost time. Sounds like a great gift though good choice from the other half.

sheepsteeth

haha, this is true, my tastes have changed over that short time too. ive got 10 bottles on the shelf at the moment and have a couple of others on the horizon.

CraigXXL

Just had my 40th and now have another 6ish bottles of whiskey (Famous Grouse crept in there) and 3 bottles of port. Best book myself in for a liver tranplant now.

sheepsteeth

tlw1

Top gift,

Raymondavalon

Excellent gift there Mr Sheepo, even as a teetotaler I am jealous

Northwind

Be warned they might want you to swirl it around and savour the bouquet and other such obvious bollocks. At one distillery tour they tried to get us to spit it out afterwards :shock: Turns out I've been doing it wrong all these years, I usually drink the stuff.

Arkady001

Northwind wrote:

Be warned they might want you to swirl it around and savour the bouquet and other such obvious bollocks. At one distillery tour they tried to get us to spit it out afterwards :shock: Turns out I've been doing it wrong all these years, I usually drink the stuff.

French influence obviously...some hangover from all that Jacobite nonsense way back...
A wee drop of water is all that's needed to enjoy a good malt.

Northwind

When we did the glenmorangie tour they brought out the good stuff... In daft shaped glasses with lids on... A nice lady from New York asked if she could have some coke for it

Arkady001

Northwind wrote:

When we did the glenmorangie tour they brought out the good stuff... In daft shaped glasses with lids on... A nice lady from New York asked if she could have some coke for it

Ahh bless - I hope she was ritually disembowelled with a sharpened tea-spoon...

Anonymous

Northwind wrote:

When we did the glenmorangie tour they brought out the good stuff... In daft shaped glasses with lids on... A nice lady from New York asked if she could have some coke for it

Whisky and coke? Aah, the rockstar life those americans lead eh?
I bet she was expecting playboy bunnies too.

Stevo_666

Hope you remember to go sightseeing after that.

Some of us got taken out on a work pi$$ up lunch last year by a bunch of consultant types we'd given a load of work to and they took us to a pretty upmarket joint that did a 'tasting menu' - a glass of wine with every course. When we looked at the menu there were 9 courses...I vaguely remember going back to the office early evening to pick up my stuff.

Looks like a good place you're going to.

mak3m

mmmm im drunk and there is a leaving gift for a work colleage in front of me

its penderyn WELSH whisky

i love my whisky but never gone welsh

its 46% and looks so lovely and golden its calling to me lads

should i breech and call into offy on way to work tomorrow?????


oh gift rated high :P

sheepsteeth

do it do it do it

i tried some not long ago and it is really nice. (cheers el cap)

cooldad

Whisky tastes like cold cat piss.
Don't ask me how I know.

The Northern Monkey

very nice gift!

can never remember which is the one i liked from the whiskey tasting I had in scotland... was one of the smaller brands I think from a small island.

mak3m

sheepsteeth wrote:

do it do it do it

i tried some not long ago and it is really nice. (cheers el cap)

breeched :twisted:

quite sweet actually normally prefer medicninal kick in the teeth

oh well £10 off @ sainsburys bargin at £24 set offf early for work then

mak3m

cooldad wrote:

Whisky tastes like cold cat wee-wee.
Don't ask me how I know.

you're doing it wrong

Gazlar

9/10,m its missing one thing, after whisky tasting, i feel like I should wear tweed and go around shooting things with a blunderbuss, and there is no mention of them providing you wih historical firearms on their webpage

sheepsteeth

Gazlar wrote:

9/10,m its missing one thing, after whisky tasting, i feel like I should wear tweed and go around shooting things with a blunderbuss, and there is no mention of them providing you wih historical firearms on their webpage

that is a good point