Silverstone Whisky 12 yrs. Single Malt

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Hi!

A German discounter - widely known as "ALDI" - offers a single malt whisky that is labelled "Silverstone". I do not know a scottish distillery by that name. Probably I just forgot or overlooked one of the many, but maybe this is a by-product of one of the well-known distilleries. Does anyone know about this whisky? It is sold for EUR

18,55/1 l.

Thanks,

Eriol

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sinnfrei
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snipped-for-privacy@gmx.net schrieb:

Lidl does the same und another name. There is no such distillery. Since it is declared as a "Single Malt" it should be single malt. Maybe not even the distillery knows where their casks ended up. I'd say it's a Speyside-Malt. Don't ask me which one, I don't know and there are many distilleries.

Andreas

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Andreas Gugau

It is obviously a Highland Single Malt. I just thought that maybe someone knows which one this could be ... Well, I may give it a try and taste it.

Andreas Gugau schrieb:

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sinnfrei

its only 'obvious' if the poster looked at the link. i only looked at the link because of your comment. anyone that knows a decent amount about whisky would have know instantly that Silverstone was a distillery and wouldnt have bothered looking at the link. ; )

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-=[ Doner Kebab ]=-

Thanks for the advice, Mr Kebab. As you may know a decent amount about Whisky: May I humbly ask you to break the secret and tell me and others something about this marvellous distillery called "Silverstone", assumedly lying somewhere in the north, south, west or east Highlands and producing a 12 year old oak cask single malt?

Thank you again!

Eriol

-=[ Doner Kebab ]=- schrieb:

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sinnfrei

hehe it should have said 'wasnt' :D my only excuse is that i may like whisky a little TOO much ; )

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-=[ Doner Kebab ]=-

The answer, of course is to Google it, where a simple search for Silverstone explains everything:

"The new Diageo owned Silverstone distillery benefits from its location along the banks of the Midden-creels*, where the water runs from peat, through slate, over sandstone, under peat again repeatedly, and finally uphill once more to provide an unctious base for this rich and characterful whisky triple-distilled, then double-distilled all over again using vintage equipment gleaned from what are regrettably some of the classic silent classic distilleries of Scotland including the pot stills from Port Ellen, the malting floors of Glen Mhor, the glass from Glenglassaugh, the flags of Glen Flagler, moss from Mosstowie, roses from Rosebank, sundry other flora from Brora, and, last but not least, the ladies of Ladyburn to create a symphony of scotch whisky nostalgia sure to fetch top dollar at Aldi."

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Douglas W Hoyt

Sounds terrific! I was always looking for a Whisky like this one. Wow. And ALDI sells it. Uh, by the way: I found out that they also have a bitters called "Silverstone". That probably derives from the same distillery and explains why the whisky is so smooth ...

Eriol

Douglas W Hoyt schrieb:

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sinnfrei

Mine is so smooth because I now realize that the bottle is, completely, empty. It has some nice ozone notes though.

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Douglas W Hoyt

I saved that picture to my hard disk, then enlarged it

250% with bicubic resample. The print on the lable is rather prosaic: "Distilled in copper pot stills in the traditional centuries-old manner. It is laid down in old oak casks and matured undisturbed for twelve long years." About what you'd expect on a single-malt label.

(I don't know about the "undisturbed", though. Doesn't ring true. Don't distillers "top up" casks during maturation due to evaporation? And the casks used are not necessarily "old" either.)

More interesting than the writing, though, is the fact that the label is affixed to the bottle with two strips of scotch tape, one on either side. :-) In other words, the bottle in the picture is just a prop. Someone is pulling our legs.

This whisky was clearly made at the LochNotreallaggan distillery in the Crampian mountains. I happen to know their chief distiller, Dr. Pullurleg, quite well. You can contact him by email at snipped-for-privacy@abunchofmalarky.com

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Robbie Hatley

Robbie Hatley schrieb:

I sense irony in there ... Greets, Markus (Germany)

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Markus Fuenfrocken

I don't know a thing about Silverstone, but most distilleries will sell casks to independent bottlers, who age the contents themselves and bottle it when they deem it ready. Some distilleries allow their names to be used by the independents, others demand their name not be divulged. The malts the independents bottle and sell are often -- but not always -- of very good quality and of great interest to malt lovers. Not that I can find or afford most of them where I live. They also include inexpensive bottlings for supermarkets and the like, which are generally young and, I'm told, sometimes undistinguished.

I have never heard of malts being "topped up" in the barrel. Remember that they start at some astronomical percentage of alcohol by volume. There is evaporation as they age -- known as "the angels' share" -- but when they come out of the barrel, they still tend to be anywhere from about 50 to 70 per cent alcohol. Except for the ones that are sold at cask strength, they are normally watered down to 40 or 43 or 45 per cent. So it's perfectly credible that they are aged "undisturbed." Not that that's necessarily a virtue. Some malts are marketed on the basis that they are first aged in one kind of wood and then "finished" in another.

So it's quite possible that Silverstone is an independent bottling of whisky distilled by a "real" distillery, and left undisturbed for 12 years. That's nothing unusual. Others have guessed it's a highland or Speyside malt.

I tried googling on Silverstone single malt, but google's translations from German are pretty funny. Many of the sites come up with "single malt whisky" translated as "single paint whisky." That's probably not a good sign.

cheers.

bill

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bill van

I got one bottle of this Whisky. It tastes like a Dalwhinnie which misses the last 3 years. Not bad at all, not much smoke in it, though. Probably a good Whisky for a beginner, but not a bad one anyway. There are lots of Highland Single Malts that are far more expensive and not better than this one. It is watered down to 40 %, by the way.

Cheers,

Eriol

bill van schrieb:

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sinnfrei

I was given two bottles of it Eriol. Just opened the first last night. ( I live in The Netherlands, but just 15 minutes from the German border). I didnt get the Dalwhinnie taste you noticed. It tasted more like a Speyside to me. It had a sweet after taste . Cleary sherry. For the price its certainly a decent Scotch. I prefer it to Glen Grant which is slightly more expensive.

Peace,

Jock

The Step-We-Ceilidh Band.

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