Exquisite whisky to buy

smilingcrow | 08:04 Wed 13th Jun 2012 | Food & Drink

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I would like to buy some popular expensive whisky for my father inlaw. Up to around 200 pounds. Any ideas? Also if he opens it will it eventually go off? IHe will probably just put it on display but I am not sure,.

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woofgang

Go have a look on The Macallan website. Most whisky drinkers enjoy The Macallan and their vintage bottles are something else.

funnygirl

Glenmorangie is good.

http://www.winedancer...Quarter_Century_.html

smilingcrow

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funnygirl that has been my choice cooincidentally. Going to go for the 18 year old one. Thanks.

HowardKennitby

I am not a whisky drinker so can't help. You might find something here.

http://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/

whiskeysheri

My man would kill for a bottle of this: http://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/P-2111.aspx

DTCwordfan

Whisky does not go off.....good news.Leave the cap off the bottle and that isn't.

It's a very personal thing as the taste varies so much - you might want to sneak around his back and find out what whiskies he has as that will give us some clues and better pointers for you.

I love Tomintoul - comes from near Glen Feshie so is therefore one of those classic Speyside scotches, with lovely caramel-like creamy after-notes. Unusual and very smooth.

If you want a classic sea influenced Scotch, no better than Scapa Flow from the Orkneys - beautifully crafted and smooth.

Also I could recommend googling the Scottish Malt Society and they have access to rare malts such as the Convalmore from Dufftown, Speyside, rare as the distillery has gone out of business......you pay accordingly.

DTCwordfan

http://www.maltmadness.com/whisky/scapa.html

http://www.tomintouldistillery.co.uk/

paddywak

Perhaps this site might give you a few ideas, but as already been said it's a matter of taste, just because one person likes a brand doesn't mean everybody will so try and do a bit of sneaky detective work to try and find what he likes
http://www.gauntleys.com/

DTCwordfan

All you have to do is list the brands that he has in the house, smilingcrow, and that will allow us to give you some guidance.

smilingcrow

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Hi I dont think he has even tried whisky. It will be more of an ornament and something he can tell his friends about. It would really make me happy if he did try it. I dont like whisky but the smell of it and if you just wet your lips with it is very pleasurable.

DTCwordfan

Personally I wouldn't want it, smiling crow, it would be like someone buying me an extremely rare bottle of Bacardi, if there is such a thing out there. I can't stand Bacardi unless it is masquerading in a Pina Colada.

What I would appreciate is something like an extremely good red wine and £200 would buy a very nice bottle, or even two or three bottles........

missnemesis

>>> He will probably just put it on display >>>

Smilingcrow what is the point of that? If you want him to have an ornament, buy him an ornament. If you want him to have something to drink as a treat because it's his birthday buy him something you know he likes, certainly not something he has never tasted before.

IMO that's a waste of money and a waste of a good bottle of malt.