sorry, this is just an idea, it may be really dumb. you can be your own blender!!! just pour a little a wee dram of each and see what happenS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ps im sorry for be a nuisance in the past, i hadd this idea and i posted it, hopefully it will spark discussion. i HOPE i have made up fpr past transgressions.
Seems to me that if you're going to drink a blended Scotch, it makes sense to let people who have a plan and background do the blending. I mean, they know the characteristics of each of the ingredients they're using, and having a plan usually is more effective than "see what happens".
: Seems to me that if you're going to drink a blended Scotch, it makes : sense to let people who have a plan and background do the blending. : I mean, they know the characteristics of each of the ingredients they're : using, and having a plan usually is more effective than "see what : happens".
I'm in agreement there. Since I have no idea what sorts of proportions to use, I'd basically be performing trial-and-error experimentation with bottles of single-malt. Given that these bottles don't come cheap, this seems like a rather pricey pursuit.
But if anyone wants to send me, say, one-hundred bottles of good single-malt, I'll spend the next few months doing some experiments and then I'll post my results here.
Justin
On 2 Mar 2006 15:14:21 GMT, Dave Hinz wrote:
I host nosing and tasting nights here in The Netherlands Dave. I combine music, song and SMSW. For beginners I do a round of Malts, starting in the Lowlands and follow the map up to Speyside, then Northern Highlands and Orkney, then come back down to Cambpeltown and Islay. For people who "know their stuff" I am a wee bit more adventurous, especially if they have money to spend. I do it for corporate events, and my band come along, but also for any interested party. Anyway, my point being, that after we have tasted each dram, I have people pour the dregs into a big watering can. At the end of the night we usually end up with a vatted malt of between 10 and 15 different Single Malts. Not that I use any policy whatsoever in this. I just mix all the leftovers from the glasses that is together and we all have a taste of that to see how it turns out. It really is fun to do and we come up with a different taste each time as you can imagine. Last November I was in both Glenfarclas and Aberlour destilleries for the extended tour and master class at the end with a group of Swedish business men. The portions the people gave us at the end of both tours were large. 6 drams of different expressions of the best they had. Many of the Swedes only drank a wee bit out of each glass, rinsing their mouths in between with bottled water from the destillery. They saw me after having tasted all 6 , mixing the dregs together and having a taste to see what that ended up like. To cut a long story short, we had a great time and allthough we probably all drank something different ( the parts were all different) we all agreed that it was interesting to carry this practice on.
Peace,
Jock
The Step-We-Ceilidh Band.
I sometimes do this, with really great results, when I have the odd bit left in several bottles. For example, some light Glen Garioch with a youngish Islay malt can be nice. I tend not to do this unless the bottles are way, way down (read "dry") but it's never been bad.
chuck
That sounds like a lot of fun.
Sure, but problem is, if you get something stunningly good, how do you reproduce it?
LOL! You dont I am afraid. Matter of fact, as I usually drink this last, I cant even really remember it next day But, I allways take a funnel and bottle the dregs in whichever empty bottle I have and take it home. I have one in my cabinet right now and its a mix of
Peace,
Jock
The Step-We-Ceilidh Band.
Have you heard of Loch Fyne Whiskies' Living Cask? Well I have a living bottle. Every new whisky I get I shove a measure in the living bottle and I enjoy the way it changes with time. Now I don't know if this is real or imagined but I seem to find that the taste improves when the whiskies have married for a while.
the man with no idea schrieb:
That's right, Richard Joynson just told me the same.
Andreas
A sort of dynamic version of Chivas' Century of Malts. 8;)
As mentioned in this group before, there are clubs here and there which meet specifically to experiment with vatting single malts. We have one here in the Washington, DC area.
I frequently vat whiskies, beers, and wines (separately, of course) when I come to the end of a tasting. It's amazing how good some of the results are, and they're never any worse than your weakest contributor.
-- Larry
The Glenfarclas is my new favorite. I found them this last January and brought home a 15 yo and the cask strength. The CS is something to behold...so completely different than the usual single malt. Not a "simple" whisky, though.
Well, you guys have talked me into it.
I rarely vat whiskies. In the rare past occasions, it has been because there was a combination of very unique whiskies that I wanted to try. My most recent experiment, about a month ago, was the Cadenhead Longrow
9yo and the OB sherry Wood Expressions Longrow 13yo. Very different Longrows, both CS of course, but with divergent, and VERY strong cast influences. I half expected it to be a disaster. It was not as good as either alone--but these ARE two of my favorate post '74 Longrows--but it was still exceptional. Most important, it was quite unlike any of the 30 or so Longrows I've ever tried.I'm not inclined to combine the dregs from glasses people have already drank from... so far, when I've hosted tastings leftovers have been quite uncommon... but combining the dregs of bottles into a "living cask" bottle has captured my imagination.
I suspect I will start with the last 1/5 bottle I have of Samaroli No Age, since it is already a vatted malt. I'll add primarily the last
1/5 or less of bottles that I'm not especially fond of. Alone, this might not create a great vatting (although it's likely to improve them...) so I'll also add the last 1/5 of great, but easily accessible malts as they near the bottom. I'm thinking here Ardbeg 10, Laphroaig 10 (or CS), Highland Park 12 (or 18), and Longmorn 15 as I always keep these on hand.I don't want to sacrifice the the last couple drams from exceptional, hard to find malts (usually indie bottlings), but might do so occasionally, when I have a new, but similar expression from that distillery.
What do you think?
Your friend, John
Don't worry, we're generally a forgiving bunch.
I've vatted lots of odds and ends, some were pretty nice. A good sherried glenfarclas improves almost any home vatting, but don't over do it, it doen't need it.
But to be a "blender" one would have to have grain whiskies as well as single malts...
Bart
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