Cracking Price for a discontinued Travel Exclusive Bottle. This is a 100cl bottle instead of the standard 70cl and comes with free delivery. It's around the £50 mark elsewhere online.
Next day delivery if your a prime member.
Plus Bowmore is a lovely whisky :smiley:
14 comments
kandinsky
7 Jul 17#1
Its got very mixed reviews on Master of Malts and The Whisky Exchange sites. A good price but it seems its a Marmite type case for this. Some people love it and some hate it. And it being a NAS as well I think I`ll give this one a miss, but thanks for posting.
gods_mad_hatter to kandinsky
7 Jul 17#2
I think ots a blend aswell not even sure if its malt and grain.
zizzles
7 Jul 17#3
thanks abit
RufusA
7 Jul 17#4
I've had this before, and personally wasn't that impressed with it.
Young Islays can be great (looking at your Laphroaig QC), but they need a peaty punch or very good cask choice to get away with it. This doesn't seem to have either!
Also the ridiculous colour annoys me, but that's just a personal hatred of over caramelled whiskies.
There are much better islays, and much better Bowmores for similar money. I'd happily pay a tenner extra and get a litre of the 10YO from travel retail.
He so reminds me of Swiss Tony from the Fast Show.
markedwardevans
9 Jul 17#9
As always, if it's a non-age statement I'm not interested. Very few exceptions to this rule.
Forbez to markedwardevans
9 Jul 17#11
I agree in principle, but there are some exceptions and on the low end of the scale, Monkey Shoulder is one for me. It's an excellent blend from three great Speyside distilleries. Could drink that and enjoy it more than many entry level single malts.
Forbez
9 Jul 171#10
That wasn't a question, it was a sarcastic and condescending response to the comment from gods_mad_hatter: "I think its a blend aswell not even sure if its malt and grain.:
It clearly states single malt, meaning it's not a blend nor a grain whisky, perhaps I should have included an epsilon to make my condecension clearer:
It's a single malt...?
fishmaster
9 Jul 171#12
NAS Whisky is so that distillers can put out younger spirit and still charger higher amounts for it. I agree there's always exceptions and Monkey Shoulder has its own following and celebrity status, quite possibly from the name itself. It's not something I'd put money in to as there's so much more on offer which thrashes the pants off it quite frankly. If I was given some for free then I wouldn't turn my nose up at it.
A friend of mine used to run the Chester Whisky Shop, which I think could be called Turmeaus now. Anyway I had a sample of loads and loads of whisky from there. If you fancy something completely different then try Rittenhouse 100 Straight Rye.
markedwardevans
9 Jul 17#13
Oh wow I live near to Chester. Have been in the whisky shop a few times. Enjoyed some fine cigars there too :smile:
... And yes I agree monkey shoulder is actually quite decent.
Forbez
10 Jul 17#14
Yeah it's clear that NAS whisky is financially beneficial for distilleries and as much as I agree that whisky drinkers shouldn't tolerate it, unfortunately with almost every major distillery proportioning larger amounts of whisky into the NAS labels whilst hiking up the prices of the age statements it's hard to avoid.
I have to say I have principles and I will never purchase another bottle of Macallan for what they did to their UK customer base. They swiped off the 10 yo sherry and 12yo fine oak - sent it ALL to Asia for higher prices and replaced it with Macallan gold - a completely inferior product! Then a few years later when the asian market slowed down they re-introduced it to the UK as a special release at more than twice the price. At the same time they almost doubled the age statement.
It might be my favourite whisky, but they can shove it up their hoop.
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Next day delivery if your a prime member.
Plus Bowmore is a lovely whisky :smiley:
14 comments
Young Islays can be great (looking at your Laphroaig QC), but they need a peaty punch or very good cask choice to get away with it. This doesn't seem to have either!
Also the ridiculous colour annoys me, but that's just a personal hatred of over caramelled whiskies.
There are much better islays, and much better Bowmores for similar money. I'd happily pay a tenner extra and get a litre of the 10YO from travel retail.
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/bowmore-black-rock-single-malt-scotch-whisky-100-cl-35-84-amazon-2725484
This is a question people ask when they don't have a clue about whisky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EzB5R9iweo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW1te_miu5I
He so reminds me of Swiss Tony from the Fast Show.
It clearly states single malt, meaning it's not a blend nor a grain whisky, perhaps I should have included an epsilon to make my condecension clearer:
It's a single malt...?
A friend of mine used to run the Chester Whisky Shop, which I think could be called Turmeaus now. Anyway I had a sample of loads and loads of whisky from there. If you fancy something completely different then try Rittenhouse 100 Straight Rye.
... And yes I agree monkey shoulder is actually quite decent.
I have to say I have principles and I will never purchase another bottle of Macallan for what they did to their UK customer base. They swiped off the 10 yo sherry and 12yo fine oak - sent it ALL to Asia for higher prices and replaced it with Macallan gold - a completely inferior product! Then a few years later when the asian market slowed down they re-introduced it to the UK as a special release at more than twice the price. At the same time they almost doubled the age statement.
It might be my favourite whisky, but they can shove it up their hoop.