I dropped in to read some messages today after a long absence from the group, to see what whiskies people were talking about. I sse some old familiar posters and some new ones, so hello to all my old friends who remember me, and hello to new ones I haven't conversed with yet.
Question for the group:
What was the best whisky you tasted in 2005?
For me the best was the Ardbeg Uigedail.
Close runners-up were the Laphroaig Cask Strength, newly available this year in my market; the Glenrothes
29yrs (1974), which was excellent but not as good as the 22yo (1979) from a few years ago, and an UCF Ardmore from Signatory Cask #1382, which although the label stated it was from a bourbon barrel was swimming in sherry.Best QPR whisky was a single-cask, cask-strength bottling of a 6yo Arran from a fresh sherry cask. Tasted fully mature, like a 12yo, nice round sherry flavor and priced at only 30 USD.
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