What's your latest whiskey purchase?

[WhiskyNotes]

My latest Irish purchase was a Connemara 1999 single cask bottled for the whisky festival in Ghent (Belgium). I called it a "sweet hottie" but it's very enjoyable and one of the better Connemara I've had.

[varizoltan]

2 bottles of Tyrconnell 17, single cask from CWS

[DavidH]

That's my last purchase too! Only one bottle though.

[PureDrop]

Ditto - having tasted it at the "President's Selection" tasting in December? - had to be bought. Looking forward to opening it in a few year's time!
/M

[JohnM]

The last few I've bought were...

A few old Powers and a Paddy
Highland Park Magnus Edition
Karuizawa 1976 Noh
Bushmills single cask from 2002
Ardbeg Rollercoaster
Dalmore 1990 Tropical Spice

[JohnM]

Got this the other day. It's intersting because it has North Mall Distillery on it, as well as Midleton.

[brettie vedder]

my wife picked me up a personalized bottle of the jameson 12 yr distillery reserve for my birthday. only tasted it once at the jameson tasting. ill probably only have 1 on special occasions

[varizoltan]

Just bought a Quarter Cask of Kilbeggan Whiskey today

KD 07/01, cask Nr8, 60% alc. vol, 95 litre, 3 years old, double distilled single malt, new spirit from The Kilbeggan Distillery

[varizoltan]

here it is

[John]

Nice one Zoltan!
What are your plans for it in terms of maturation date, finishing, etc.
Or are you just planning a BIG party really soon
Cheers,
John.

[IrishWhiskeyChaser]

COngrats Zoltan ... well done

Yes it will be interesting as to how it matures ...

How is it tasting at the moment Zoltan as I see you are swigging from a sample bottle in one of the pictures?
I'm guessing that this 3year old would actually be more like a 5-6 year in taste.

[varizoltan]

i just fell in love with it,and it is a real bargain for the price i have paid for it, and it is just suited me, for size and everything, and i just could not left the place without buying it

typical Cooley nose, sweet and fruity,and the malt taste great, but as a young whiskey, it is still not rounded, have a bit of an explosion on the palate, but i give it a few years to round off and then i get it bottled

it was first distilled at Riverstown, and distilled the second time in the "newly running" still at Kilbeggan

i can't wait to taste it in a few years, when it is ready for bottling,
but it has to be bottled on my birthday, 5th may, possibly in 2014, as a 7 years old, which you can "take" as 12 years old in a small cask like that

[IrishWhiskeyChaser]

My lastest purchase is a 1988 Bushmills Sherry Single Cask ... will hold this back a while but really looking forward to opening this in the future.

I must say that Cask strength Bushmills Single Sherry casks are my favourite Bushmills expression so far.

[JohnM]

It's funny that the ones with the distillation date don't tell you when they were bottled and the ones with the bottling date don't tell you when they were distilled. I have a sherry cask 2002.

[John]

Just bought a Bushmills 1608 Anniversary ('deal' on at the moment at the Whiskey Exchange) and a Mackmyra First Ed.
J.

[Michael Foggarty]

Just bought a Quarter Cask of Kilbeggan Whiskey today

KD 07/01, cask Nr8, 60% alc. vol, 95 litre, 3 years old, double distilled single malt, new spirit from The Kilbeggan Distillery

i just fell in love with it,and it is a real bargain for the price i have paid for it, and it is just suited me, for size and everything, and i just could not left the place without buying it

typical Cooley nose, sweet and fruity,and the malt taste great, but as a young whiskey, it is still not rounded, have a bit of an explosion on the palate, but i give it a few years to round off and then i get it bottled

it was first distilled at Riverstown, and distilled the second time in the "newly running" still at Kilbeggan

i can't wait to taste it in a few years, when it is ready for bottling,
but it has to be bottled on my birthday, 5th may, possibly in 2014, as a 7 years old, which you can "take" as 12 years old in a small cask like that

Its not a single malt then....

[varizoltan]

it is a single malt

[varizoltan]

remembered me the Signatory (cooley) single malt 10 years old, what i had at Bowes

[JohnM]

I think it's a funny one, because it's from two distilleries. Not sure they can call it single malt, but it's all malt, for sure.

Do they have a term for this kind of thing? A double malt?

[varizoltan]

actually, it is malt on the invoice,
but i will ask

[JohnM]

It's just semantics, really, as all the malt is from a mash brewed at Cooley. The distance between the stills doesn't affect the taste.

[jcskinner]

Technically not a single malt according to the definitions that apply in Scotland.
I'd be inclined to call it a pure malt, myself.
But since there are no rules here in Ireland, no doubt they'll call it a single malt.
Which brings me back to the thread: What is Irish whiskey?
It's high time there were some guidelines and rules about what terms can be applied. We've seen Cooley play fast and loose with the term 'pure potstill' in the past. No harm to them, but I think they're devaluing the meaning of these terms the way they use them sometimes.
We probably need to create a consensus on what's what and have it underwritten by legislation.

[varizoltan]

but it is a great whiskey, anyway

[IrishWhiskeyChaser]

I think this can be argued as a single malt on a slant of a technicallity.

Do we all agree that you have to distill a whiskey.

Well the wort is only a brew of Beer so the the distilation aspect has not happened yet.

All distilation happens in Kilbeggan so the spirit/whiskey is soley produced in a single distillery.

[jcskinner]

According to Zoltan, the first distillation was at Riverstown, though.