Which bottle did you just buy and why?

A couple more bottles of the New World Projects Wine Cask Exclusive to 104 bottles in the world.

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Being of Asian heritage it is hard to resist the bottle numbers. :D

Booker's True Barrel 2014-05, 63.95%ABV X 2 because there were only 3 bottles left in our province and the manager at my local MLCC was good enough to transfer these 2 in for me from the other store. I really liked the 2015-05 version. Will decide on this one but the first dram was very good. Doesn't look like there are any more in our pipeline right now! My favorite bourbon so far.

@Jonesz That is there were only 3 bottles of Booker's of any bottling period!

Just had 2 bottles of Glendronach 15 Revival put aside for me in New Brunswick for my drive to Nova Scotia. $86 Can tax in each. Reasonable price I thought for a soon to be gone (for now) SM. Not much of it around outside of New Brunswick.

@Astroke GR8 price for a GR8 whisky. One of my favorite sherried drams. GD Revival 15 is like a unicorn around here. Used to be $113 CDN tax included here. Would like the chance to buy somemore.

There were 3 just bought. The Chivas Revolve: 17 Y/O, the bottle spins, actually the bottle itself is beautiful, and I hadn't tried it before. It isn't readily available so you have to look pretty hard (in Australia anyway). Tripple blended in oak and chilled filtered. Bunnahabhain XXV, I bought it for the back story really and can't wait to try it. Sherried Islay is ultimately what caused me to pull the trigger on this one. The third was the Glenmorangie Quarter Century. I have read some varying reviews and decided to make my own mind up. I normally buy to collect but can't pass up the opportunity to have a dram as well.

@Nock the ECBP I picked up is 69.7% / 139.4 proof..... And .... This is my first. Damn, I was not quite ready for it when I first opened it. But, I have since seen 2 more bottles at another shop and am temped to go back for one or.... It's going for $65 around here.

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@sengjc

I tried this last weekend and was impressed.

I just bought my first bottle of Octomore. It's the 6.1. Why?

•Because I had just won a small jackpot at the local casino (royal flush on video poker!)

•Because I'm about to celebrate the sale of my house and I want something special to toast the occasion.

•Because PEAT PEAT PEAT PEAT PEAT!

I just bought a bottle of Elijah Craig Barrel Proof 139.4 proof or 69.7 %ABV. Can someone tell me what batch this is and how they like it?

@Benancio

I have not tried nor do I own that batch but can predict that you'll wish you'd bought 2...

@OlJas

We tasted the 6.1 last week and the peat did not leave my mouth for 2 days... It was delicious (at the time).

In Virginia I picked up the Laphroaig Lore and waiting on the Booker's Rye to come in. Excited about both purchases. I understand the leader of Lock Stock, and Barrel passed in May. Any opinions about the 16 year old rye release? A couple of mixed reviews for being a whiskey aggregator and not a producer. Won double gold in San Fran. Thanks

I just ordered a new whisky! I've been thinking about ordering a couple of different ones but as usual, when I get down to it, I went for something else totally..

I opted for the Adelphi glenborrodale batch 2. Essentially a 14yrs old blended malt containing Highland Park, bunnahabhain and tamdhu. Finished in a glenrothes sherry cask with 8 years old whisky all left in it so that's the age statement for the bottling.

I find it an intriguing blend and I'm really looking forward to sampling it!

@Benancio and @chrisbator

You both have batch 11. Congratulations! I think it is right in the wheel house for a excellent-typical-example of Elijah Craig Barrel Proof. I have tried every single batch from #1 through #11 (actually, I haven't opened my bottle of #10 yet). It is on par with my favorite batches (1, 6, and 9).

Some batches have more sweet fruit and sour lemon peel while others can have more leather and oak. Some batches have high soaring tones of spice while others have more bass wood tones. This one sits right in the typical "flavor profile zone.” There isn’t too much bass and not too much high tones. The nose is very balanced (not just harmony of flavors) to the point that that is belies the intensity of the palate and finish. It is quite huge.

I am a huge fan. I have bought every bottle I could get my hands on (6 now). Do enjoy, and I look forward to reading your reviews.

I'm on vacation in South Carolina. I just found some Old Ezra 7 year old 101 Proof on the shelf for $16.95 plus tax. So I bought two bottles. I am grateful for the taste @Victor gave me from his bottle last year.

@Nock

How does Old Ezra compare to Old Grand Dad or Old Potrero?

3 X laddie 10s bargain at £34 each

@Nozinan, well the main similarity is that none of them are all that old.

@Nock huge is a great way to describe this ECBP... The nose does not give it away. For my first taste I was pretty surprised at the boldness... I liked it and I have to revisit this one soon...

A few bottles of the Kilchoman Sanaig (2016 bottling) and another bottle of the Benrinnes 15 Year Old (Flora and Fauna series).

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The Sanaig apparently won some trophy recently and prices have begun to creep upwards here in Australia. The Benrinnes is part of the discontinued Diageo Flora & Fauna bottling series. Received a free Glencairn in the process.

@Nozinan

Nice, I am looking forward to having a go myself. These are getting rather expensive in Australia for some unknown reason, prices have almost doubled in some places. These were priced at their old pricing and thus relatively affordable.

Hibiki 12 because store had removed it from website and 2 bottles left on shelf, they had bumped the price though so just got one.

@Pete1969 very nice find. I myself have 1 70cl bottle put away which I won't be opening anytime soon. I wish I'd stocked up when I had the opportunity but even at the old prices this was always an expensive blend.

@maltmate302 try your nearest large Tesco only a half litre bottle at £50 marked it up a tenner since I last bought one but had to buy one before it disappeared.

I just bought a Port Charlotte Islay Barley NAS. Why?

•I wanted a "comparison bottle" to taste next to the Octomore (noted above) in my new home last night.

•This fall, I want to do the biggest PC side-by-side-by-side-by-side (-by-side) I can muster with the bottles currently available to me. I have an An Turas Mor sample saved off, a Scottish Barley sample saved off, an unopened PC7, and now the Islay Barley. Throw in the Octomore and it's a peaty Bruichladdich fivesome.

•Because PEAT PEAT PEAT PEAT! (That's one less peat than I said above for the Octomore.)

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BTW, quick impression of the Octomore 6.1: Not all that impressive. Totally good, but nothing too different from other CS peaters. I know that's what everyone says, but I was disappointed to find that it was true for me too. I doubt anyone in my whisky club will have had it before, and I'm thinking of having them over for a "Can you spot the Octomore?" tasting, with it blind alongside Laphroaig 10 CS and whatever other CS peaters I have kicking around. I bet it won't stand out.

@OlJas sounds like a fun night hope they enjoy.

I just bought the Ardbeg Dark Cove committee release (55%). Why?

•Because a local shop had a whole shelf full of them collecting dust, and the collective Connosr opinion was that I should scoop them up.

•Because the reviews here and elsewhere have been overwhelmingly good.

•Because I never took a spin on an Ardbeg one-off release before, and this one seemed worth it.

•Because I still had some of that "royal flush money" I alluded to above!

•Because PEAT PEAT PEAT PEAT PEAT.

Why did I hesitate?

•Because the price is just about as high as I'm willing to go on a single bottle.

•Because the name, the gimmick, and the sales pitch are all dumb nonsense. "Darkest Ardbeg ever"? Nope. And what the heck is a "dark sherry" cask? All dumb.

@OlJas, you've got some local shops that most Connosrs wish were available to them. Yeah, all kinds of bullshit verbiage accompanies the Dark Cove, but... if you decide you don't want it @Nock or I will take it off your hands in a millisecond. That's some really first-rate Ardbeg there.

@Victor , yeah, Madison's got a few quality shops. Anyone else looking for that Dark Cove CR in my neck of the woods should get over to Steve's on McKee. They still had five or six bottles left after I got mine.

And as long as I'm addressing that very small local audience (if it even exists), I'll point out that Riley's downtown continues to have the best selection I've ever seen in the U.S., outside of the Binny's all-stores website. Just ask to go upstairs to enter a wonder-world of IBs and super high-end stuff. The prices are steep, though. That's where I got my PC Islay Barley, because it was the only bottle on my list where my preferred local shop could compete with Binny's on price. I was hoping to find more of the Kilkerran CS there, but it was gone. I was surprised—I thought I was the only Madisonian who knew about their supply.