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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
Newsgroups: net.wines
Subject: Re: Single-malt Scotch tasting
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Date: Tue, 21-Jan-86 10:14:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 21 10:14:00 1986
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>               Results of tasting: Single Malt Whiskey
>                       10 January 1986
> All the scotches were 12 years in wood
> except the Laphroaig which was 15, and the Johnnie Walker which likely had
> some in the blend that never saw wood.

>  70   The McCallum            26.00    E       2    2    0    4
>
> finish.  The Laphroaig is its old shit-kicking self: very intense, with
> wonderful huge flavors, complex, good balance and finish.  This one is better
> balanced than the Prime Malt though much more expensive also.
>
> The McCallum and the JW I did not like as well.  I have liked the McCallum
> in the past, though it finished next to last in our previous tasting also.
> It's also a biggie -- smokey, peaty, big nose, but in the mouth it lacks
> the balance of the best and tonight seemed to have a very sharp taste
> the marred the otherwise creamy, rich flavors.

        First, this sounds like an unusual Laphroaig since the one most often
seen is a 10 year old, and Prime Malt is actually 12 yr old Laphroaig. (The
national importer is here in Baltimore.)
        Second, do you mean McCallan's here, not McCallum ? If this is not
the same malt, then I've never heard of it, and I've tasted almost every
malt available in the states. Many people feel McCallan is the "cognac" of
malts - it's very rich and full-bodied. I have a bottle of 12 yr old and
and 18 yr old and both are excellent. Not sure where the sharp taste you
noticed might have come from as that is exactly what this malt does not have.

     
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jcpatilla

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