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fatbob · 03-24-2005, 02:33 AM

this is so good!
i can't believe so many of you like my national drink! i feel all proud.

when i first tasted whisky i hated it! but i kind of forced myself to keep tasting and after while i developed a taste and a love for the stuff. i felt like i couldn't be scottish and not drink whisky...
now i love the taste, the smell, the ceremony, the mellowness of the 'drunk', although some people get the whisky rage, i seem to get a glow and feel all warm and smiley, my favourite thing about whisky is opening a new bottle...when you peel back the foil, squeeze out the cork and then the noise of the first couple of glugs...awwww! what a noise, i always always love that noise, the sueak of the new cork and then the glugs and then the smell! mmmmmmmm...

another of my favourite whisky traditions is something that one of my friends dad's started up about 10 years ago. basically he is quite a rich man and collects whisky and once a year he gets some people together to go through his collection. he lays out a big map of scotland and then places the bottles on the map where they are from. we then go through the regions tasting a bit of each one and giving them marks out of 10 for various things like nose, colour, intial taste, depth of flavour, tones, etc...
we eventually get down to a quarter final, a semi, a final and end up with a winner. the best thing about it though is the chat. there is usually 6-8 of us depending on who is in the country. 4 from my generation and 4 from our dad's generation and then maybe a granddad or something, so there is a real mix and we all sit chat, drink amazing whisky and smoke cigars, it is really good fun!

oh for your info last year the winner was a 1958 highland park which was out of this world. before that we had a 21 year old isle of jura, a 1968 glenfarclas, a 25 year old ardbeg...mmmmm... i cannae mind the rest but there is a list...it is funny to look at because there is no common thread, the feel of the winning whisky changes every year...

Slainte!

03-24-2005, 02:33 AM	#31 (permalink)
fatbob Insane Location: Edinburgh	this is so good! i can't believe so many of you like my national drink! i feel all proud. when i first tasted whisky i hated it! but i kind of forced myself to keep tasting and after while i developed a taste and a love for the stuff. i felt like i couldn't be scottish and not drink whisky... now i love the taste, the smell, the ceremony, the mellowness of the 'drunk', although some people get the whisky rage, i seem to get a glow and feel all warm and smiley, my favourite thing about whisky is opening a new bottle...when you peel back the foil, squeeze out the cork and then the noise of the first couple of glugs...awwww! what a noise, i always always love that noise, the sueak of the new cork and then the glugs and then the smell! mmmmmmmm... another of my favourite whisky traditions is something that one of my friends dad's started up about 10 years ago. basically he is quite a rich man and collects whisky and once a year he gets some people together to go through his collection. he lays out a big map of scotland and then places the bottles on the map where they are from. we then go through the regions tasting a bit of each one and giving them marks out of 10 for various things like nose, colour, intial taste, depth of flavour, tones, etc... we eventually get down to a quarter final, a semi, a final and end up with a winner. the best thing about it though is the chat. there is usually 6-8 of us depending on who is in the country. 4 from my generation and 4 from our dad's generation and then maybe a granddad or something, so there is a real mix and we all sit chat, drink amazing whisky and smoke cigars, it is really good fun! oh for your info last year the winner was a 1958 highland park which was out of this world. before that we had a 21 year old isle of jura, a 1968 glenfarclas, a 25 year old ardbeg...mmmmm... i cannae mind the rest but there is a list...it is funny to look at because there is no common thread, the feel of the winning whisky changes every year... Slainte! __________________ change happens when those who don't normally speak get heard by those who don't normally listen.