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On the evening of the 16th of April there's a whisky tasting at Vinopolis. There will be three Bowmores and three Suntorys. If you wanna come along, let me know *this week* so I can book places, which are GBP27.50 each. And, of course, please forward this to anyone who I should have sent it to in the first place. I went to one last night, where we tried seven different Ben Riach bottlings. It's a cracking new single malt. Their 12 year old is an excellent example of Speyside whisky, although not much of the Ben Riach personality comes through. I wasn't so impressed by the 16 and 20 year olds, but the 25 is a stunner. Lots of honey and fruit in it, and far FAR too easy to drink. They also, very unusually for a Speyside, do a couple of peated whiskies. The ten year old is excellent. The flowery fruity Speyside is still very obvious in it, but with added smoke and bite from the peat. But unlike yer normal Islay peated whiskies, there's no salt and seaweed. The 21 year old peated bottling was, I thought, a little *too* peaty. It was very similar to, say, a fairly standard Ardbeg, with little if any of the Speyside delicacy coming through. Finally, there was a 15 year old which had spent two years in a sherry cask. For those who like that sort of thing, I think it would be a very good whisky. Personally, if you're going to use fancy barrels I prefer whisky that's spent time in a port or madeira cask. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world PERL: Politely Expressed Racoon Love
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