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From: ted@bcsaic.UUCP (ted jardine)
Newsgroups: net.wines
Subject: Re: Single-malt Scotch tasting
Message-ID: <440@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-Jan-86 15:13:16 EST
Article-I.D.: bcsaic.440
Posted: Fri Jan 24 15:13:16 1986
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References: <3326@glacier.ARPA> <631@osiris.UUCP>
Reply-To: ted@bcsaic.UUCP (ted jardine)
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle
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Summary: 

In article <631@osiris.UUCP> jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla) writes:
>> 		Results of tasting: Single Malt Whiskey
>> 			10 January 1986
>> ...
>
> 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.

Must add a large Amen to Jody Patilla's comments.  I consider that a taste for
Whisky, particularly the single malt variety, is an individual thing.  I would
not object if someone said my favorite malt beverage tasted like the by-product
of equine kidneys.  But I must agree that Laphroaig is generally available in a
10 year vintage in the U.S.  The characterization of The McCallan as having a
sharp taste is indeed surprising, as The McCallan is aged in Sherry barrels that
are selected for the mellowing effect they have on the aging whisky.  I've had
the good fortune to taste a 25 year old McCallan.  At 100 proof it slides down
with a mere whisper.  A favorite from my short sojourn in Edinburgh is a 15 year
old J. G. Smith single malt.  That's the name of the original owners of
Glenlivet.  Of the ten year old single malts, Glen Morangie provides a good
value and an excellent finish for its age.

I'd certainly like to encourage reports of tastings, whisky, wine, or whatever,
and appropriate discussion following them.

TJ {With Amazing Grace} The Piper
(aka Ted Jardine)  CFI-ASME/I
Boeing Artificial Intelligence Center
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