what a waste of good whiskey mixing it with anything.

great with ginger beer mixer or lemonade

Jim Murray's full review -

Nose: (24.5) rarely does exotic fruit come quite so exotic! The oak is pulling out every trick in the book to underscore its great age with an aroma as softly enveloping as it has any right to be. Those who remember fruit salad candy will also seduced by this one. As well rounded as any malt you'll find this year and probably as labyrinthine, too. And, just to prove it, a few peat notes escape from their fruity clutches to add weight and depth, the intensity increasing as the temperature and oxidisation increases.

Taste: (24) all the fruits registered on the nose are present and correct, but it is the spices which momentarily take the breath away. A fabulous mouth feel alternating between crisp and mouth-watering - aided and abetted by some staccato Demerara sugar notes - and always no less than feather-pillow soft. The mid ground starts allowing the oak to show some intense vanilla and that lazy smoke to gain a foothold, a more solid one with each mouthful;

Finish: (22.5) dry and sophisticated, the fruit is now spent and a slight tang reminds us of the great age here. A light, delicate fade with the peat withdrawing surprisingly early on;

Balance: (24) Last year Lidl unearthed a couple of stunning whiskies to be sold at an improbably economic price to the consumer. They have done it again for Christmas 2012 with a malt destined to be another collectors' item. At times towards the end the age is apparent. But no less so is a malt which has on the nose and delivery a marriage between oak and barley matured in heaven. A very softly smoked, delightfully fruity gem.

There will be a voucher in Saturday's Telegraph giving £5 off £35 at Lidl. Link.

Why would anyone pay double when you can get it at this price from Lidl?

If that is the case, why don't the experts buy it all and then sell it on themselves.

great with ginger beer mixer or lemonade

I didn't say "pay" I said "worth"

Yeah, and sarcasm is wasted on the internet.

Means even less than "RRP" if that is possible.

Looks like ill be buying myself a nice little Christmas pressie!

Got the 28 year old maxwell from a year or so ago, yet to open. This any good then?

Jim Murray's full review -

Nose: (24.5) rarely does exotic fruit come quite so exotic! The oak is pulling out every trick in the book to underscore its great age with an aroma as softly enveloping as it has any right to be. Those who remember fruit salad candy will also seduced by this one. As well rounded as any malt you'll find this year and probably as labyrinthine, too. And, just to prove it, a few peat notes escape from their fruity clutches to add weight and depth, the intensity increasing as the temperature and oxidisation increases.

Taste: (24) all the fruits registered on the nose are present and correct, but it is the spices which momentarily take the breath away. A fabulous mouth feel alternating between crisp and mouth-watering - aided and abetted by some staccato Demerara sugar notes - and always no less than feather-pillow soft. The mid ground starts allowing the oak to show some intense vanilla and that lazy smoke to gain a foothold, a more solid one with each mouthful;

Finish: (22.5) dry and sophisticated, the fruit is now spent and a slight tang reminds us of the great age here. A light, delicate fade with the peat withdrawing surprisingly early on;

Balance: (24) Last year Lidl unearthed a couple of stunning whiskies to be sold at an improbably economic price to the consumer. They have done it again for Christmas 2012 with a malt destined to be another collectors' item. At times towards the end the age is apparent. But no less so is a malt which has on the nose and delivery a marriage between oak and barley matured in heaven. A very softly smoked, delightfully fruity gem.

To be honest, I've never heard of Maxwells, but a 33 year old of any whisky is worth this sort of money easily, because half the barrell will have evaporated by the time they come to bottling it.
Whatever kegs they've used, it will probably put a strong flavour through it too.

Baited the hook and in it comes....btw Whiskey is not Whisky

Some of us got the joke Ray

There will be a voucher in Saturday's Telegraph giving £5 off £35 at Lidl. Link.

Pillock

Have you not heard of Bushmills or Jameson??

Just a myth i'm afraid.
At most they're will be 3% evaporation and that will be rare.
Never known a whisky to be at that age either.

If it's from Scotland it whisky.

Sure Lidls were punting this out last year.... how many bottles of this have they got lying around ?

The 3% must be "The Angels' Share"

I bought a Laphroaig last Xmas and it still sits here with only 1/3 drunk simply because I find it a little too peaty and smoky and my friends cannot abide it!

I might give this a go this year.

Sheesh, so pedantic. It wouldn't stop me drinking it however they spell it!

If this was any good it wouldn't be getting sold off at Lidl under an unknown brand name. Suspicious.

Stop digging beavan man :smile:

Having spoken to a number of distillers in the Scottish climate the ullage is around 1-2% per year depending on how the nature of the cask and how it is stored. So over 30+ years that's 30 - 50% of the cask volume!

you'll have more luck winning the lottery than finding a bottle of this.

Lidl is German.. Im not drinking German whisky. Cold

are you real????

How do you know it's been chill filtered? Can't find any evidence of that or caramel colouring. I'm no expert but I have tasted this and can honestly say it's very very good. Read the review from Jim Murray that phatboytall posted on page one

this would be a good investmant to keep until it reaches the 50 yr old mark.......then auction it. Was there not a bottle just recently up for auction reaching the 100,000 mark? Proceeds going to scottish charities. Maybe pie in the sky. In my house it wouldnt last the weekend!:wink: Would it still have to be in the barrel to be considered 50 yr old in 17 yrs? Just had that notion!

It is not pedantic.
It is the difference between being correct or incorrect.

You are clearly a chimpanzee I refuse to debate with a chimpanzee.

6 bottles of this in lidl burton on trent yesterday. Better of with the18yr old speyside at 19.99 - good reviews and bronze award from iwc

Keeping the whisky for an extra 17 years will not make a whisky that has matured for 50 years. It will be a 17 year old, 33 year matured whisky, it only ages in the barrel.

I believe most stores are sold out :disappointed:

Absolute nonsense.
Would you care to name the distillers you've spoken to that have given you those percentages?

I was told something similar by a guy from The Edrington Group. No idea if it's true though....

you mad bro? i just checked on their website.. theyre german alright!

my dad will love this, hope i can get one

Keeping the whisky for an extra 17 years would improve it's desirability though..... numbers of remaining bottles would certainly have dwindled by then :smirk:

Went to 4 different Lidl and none of them have any bottles.
Infact, 2 of them said they didnt even HAVE any bottles delivered, despite displaying a sign for the offer and clearly having no shelfspace set aside for it...

The person who said that the evaporation is a myth is wrong.
I've spent a lot of time at distilleries (hic! :stuck_out_tongue: ) and the older the barrels, the more it tends to cost, primarily due to the fact that there is a fraction of the original barrel left.
You can obviously add a premium for storage and the ageing process, but evaporation is definitely the biggest factor.

Also, the person who mentioned keeping it for 17 years...if it was a desireable or collectable whisky, then you might be right, but once bottled, the average bottle doesn't tend to gain a huge value. You could put the cost price in a savings account and get 17 years interest and probably make a better return.

You shouldn't drink any whisky cold - German or otherwise.

Whisky not whiskey :-)

Depends where you are. There were 4 bottles at Emersons Green and I bought 1, around 9.30 this morning

Yes they are a German company but the whisky isn't German you nutter

I've been on a tour of the Jamesons distillery in Dublin and they quoted figures similar to those above. They refer to it as 'the angels share'.

Are you suggesting Jamesons are liars?

Pillock

Noun for Idiot, fool. Originally a slang term for the **** but fairly inoffensive now its this meaning has been forgotten

Very good. I am fully aware of the meaning and wouldn't be happy to be thought of as a pillock.

Managed to get last bottle at a store near me. Woman I spoke to a Lidl HQ said they had a memo around which said there was none left in the country. I got her to check a local store after hearing they had a couple and she confirmed they did, which she was amazed at.

So there may be a few out there if you're lucky.

She said they were going to bring another similar whisky deal out soon and to keep an eye out

Rode my pushbike around for 3 hours looking for some! Got the last 2 in Balham. Never had Scotch before so will crack it with some pepsi max

Thanks OP!!!

Such a pretentious comment. I love whiskey, straight, on the rocks and yes even with lemonade. Sometimes I want a long refreshing drink so, to drop some decent whiskey in a glass of lemonade makes a boring simple glass of lemonade become wonderful.

You sit their on your throne with with nothing but straight drinks and be happy :P

ooh dear, theres two in the area I live so ill give them ago just incase, fingers crossed!

No no no. People selling these on ebay trying to get £100.

The American distilling institute disagrees:
". In a standard distillery barrel (i.e. 53 gallons) about 10% of the remaining spirit in
the barrels evaporates each year. And, it’s not unusual for a barrel of fine 15-year-old single
malt Scotch whisky to be less than half full when it’s ready to be bottled."

http://www.distilling.com/PDF/chapter4.pdf

None visible in Chilwell this afternoon.

so where is it? been around 3 Lidl's and no one has it.

Where can you buy this whisky from now I looked on every site can't even find any for a high price