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  1. They do a set of three miniatures including the smoky one, a sherry cask one and their ‘original’ for £14.99 if you fancy sampling without going all in. Two of those have picked up awards apparently.
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  2. Paragraph by paragraph: 1. I don't buy that for a second. One thing you can notice in other whiskies throughout the world is the quality of water. That's why the Japanese whiskies are so good, their water quality/content is very close to the islands of Scotland. The water in this area is so hard that it killed a water softener we had fitted, it just smears everything and you can almost chew the hardness in the water. 2. The "angel's share" is always a problem, the Americans especially find it hard as the dry heat of many of their whiskEy making places are in dry, hot locations and they lose around twice that of the Scottish whisky places. 3. I agree, it's why I was so disappointed with the first tastes of it. I like the differences in taste you get from different areas and was looking forward to it. I do hope they can mature over the years and not fall into the unaged mass-market rubbish that has wrecked the reputations of previously good whiskies, such as Jura. 4. Their first branding was nationalism on a bottle essentially. They should take lessons from the Welsh whisky lot who make Penderyn as that's very subtly done, picking up a bit of national pride in their Welsh origins but not ramming it down the throats of the buyers. 5. Book yourself a Feis Ile tour for one year around the Scottish whisky isles, you'll certainly test your liver's recovery rates! It's their peaty one I'll try again if I can get one but it'll have to be good otherwise they'll subconsciously go into the "junk whiskies" pile like so many others these days. Cheers for the feedback!
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  3. Interesting, I’m on one of their tours in half an hour and have a few questions to ask. Their tasting tours come in a few formats including a world whisky tour where they pit their finest against the best in the world. It’s a nice little setup although I can only really compare it to a speyside distillery tour I’ve once been on where we sampled some Royal Lochnagar (formerly the favourite tipple of Victoria and Albert). Maybe like English wine it is an area of expertise that English distilleries might get better at with time. I think water quality may be an issue as ckn has mentioned in the past.
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  4. I was given a bottle of Chivas Regal 18 by some nice Hong Kong people that I helped out in Paris a couple of years ago. In a fit of charitable benevolence I donated it to the local SPA dogs home event near Carcassonne the other week. They ran a no lose tombola and some bloke walked up, paid 2 euros for his ticket, and swiftly headed off with fifty odd quids of hooch. The Whisky Gods being as they are, my big brother appeared the following week with a bottle of Quarter Cask Laphroaig. Sod the dogs, this is going tummywards.
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  5. Blind spot goes even more off track than the Blacklist from Season 2 on. Be warned. If you haven't watched it have a binge at the Good Fight. ( unless you support D Trump) or Designated Survivor ( which is scarily current - esp S2)
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  6. I’ve stuck with it but I agree it has lost its way. if you want to watch a truly brilliantly written series give Billions a watch, it’s absolutely fantastic.
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  7. The Blacklist, Season 5.
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  8. Now that RL has gone soft, basketball is picking up the slack and bringing back the biff.
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