Peatiest non-Islay malt?

Try a Longrow from the Springbank distillery. Or, of course, Talisker.

How about Ardmore? I don't know if it's the peatiest, but it is smokey-smooth!

On 13 Feb 2006 08:16:47 -0800, the alleged Bill J., may have posted the following, to alt.drinks.scotch-whisky:

Talisker 10 YO, a bit of brine but overridden by the smoke.

Regards, Rob "try 'Buffalo Trace' Bourbon whiskey" Crowe

Isle of Jura Superstition has good peat and smoke without the Islaydine. Quite a nice dram.

bill

Bill J. schrieb:

Ledaig from Tobermory Distillery.

Andreas

BenRiach Curiositas 10y Ledaig Peaty 7y Longmorn 15y

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Which is IMHO the worst single malt ever....

R.

Try the Connemara Irish Whiskey from Cooley Distillery

Don't know if it's the peatiest, but Glenfiddich Caoran Reserve is quite pleasant, IMO.

I'll add a vote for that as well. 'Quite pleasant' sums it up rather well.

Jim

Raymond schrieb:

The question was which is the peatiest malt. After all Lediag is not the worst IMHO.

Andreas

"Andreas Gugau" skrev i melding news: snipped-for-privacy@individual.net...

Actually, I had a dram of that in Glasgow, comparing to Old Pulteney and Ardbeg 10, and found that it was pretty good..., IMHO! Anders

I suspect it's one of those that's either highly variable from bottle to bottle, or is influenced to a far greater extent by what you've eaten or drunk recently. I had a bottle of the sherry finish and while it's not one I'd replace in a hurry, it also wasn't _that_ bad. It simply wasn't outstanding one way or the other.

Jim

U¿ytkownik "Raymond" napisa³:

Depends which expression you're talking about. If the lowliest NAS, then yes, it can probably be beaten only by the likes of Loch Dhu ;-) Yet, I do recall really nice Ledaigs in my glass...

Cheers, Rajmund

Uzytkownik "Steve Loft" napisal:

Talking of which, Balvenie 17yo IslayCask comes to mind. A splendid malt. But then, just like the Glenfiddich CR, it is a Speysider finished in Islay casks.

Cheers, Rajmund

Hi Bill,

Give "Brora" a try - if you can get one.

It's a peaty highland malt from far north of the highlands. But the destillery is closed since the late 80's - so it is hard to find any and the prices now are climbing (still not so expensive as, say "Port Ellen").

And: If you dont like the Islay-iodine: Ever tried "Bruichladdich"? OK - still an Islay, but especially the "3D" and " 3D 2nd-Edition" are real peaty ones - but without the iodine (IMHO).

Horst Leitel:

I never said I didn't like it, just that sometimes I don't crave it.

I think some non-Islays get a nice light, almost sweet vegetal autumn-leafiness from peat (like Clynelish), but a really non-iodine non-fishy non-Islay with a stiff peat backbone is the Benriach heavily peated--the peat flavor is almost all deep hard smoke. Ardmore can be wonderfully peaty too, but mine have been as "interesting" flavor-wise as the bossest of Islays.