Jim Vance ( snipped-for-privacy@accesswave.ca) wrote: : Santa delivered a Highland Park 18 - positively delightful!
Hey James, Santa dropped one of those off here also! It is very nice, though whether it's as good a value as HP 12 is hard to say.
: As for blends, I was able to pick up a bottle of The Gordon : Highlanders which isn't bad but it won't replace Black Label or Black : Bottle for my tastes.
I have to see what I can do to get Black Bottle here in NS. Te Bheag unchillfiltered and it would make for a nice back-to-back comparison.
: I have bought but not opened - and don't know whether I will - a : Bruichladdich 1989 bottled especially for the Liquor Corporation here : in Nova Scotia. I have bottle 124 of 326. Aged in oak (bourbon) for : 15 years, 46% abv. It is being marketed as a collector's item but I : suspect that it is nothing more, or less for that matter, than a : single cask bottling with unique packaging - bronze can with beige : labelling. The Nova Scotia stuff appears as extra labelling - a : sticker on the can and a backside label on the bottle that has bottle : number, year distilled, year bottled and the words "bottled : exclusively for the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation". C$100.
I have one of those too, also unopened for now. I suspect your comments are correct about what's inside.
I am pondering buying a Macallan 18 right now. A bit on the expensive side, and I've never been a huge Macallan fanatic, but I understand it is no longer available and when current stocks are gone, they're gone for good.
This week I had the good fortune of trying Glen Breton 14. Regular 9-10 year old Glen Breton sort of underwhelms me, but the 14 y-o I had was very, very nice. With a drop of water, it tastes like maple sugar candy. They are selling it in very limited quantities at a price that is out of sight, so I'm glad I had a chance to try it since I'll never buy it.
-- Greg Beaulieu snipped-for-privacy@chebucto.ns.ca Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada