Great summary tasting of all three malts, particularly the Ben Nevis. Interesting episode after your recent one about tasting different spirits - the familiarity with diverse flavours and aromas comes through in your notes. Cheers🥂
Great to listen to a straightforward review of Ben Nevis, one of my favorite distilleries, and up and comers Ardnamurchan and Evolution. I had not tried Glen Ord before your review. It would fit right in with this bunch, in my opinion. Glad I got it. Thanks.
Ben Nevis is great stuff and in my top 10 Scotch malt producers. hope you finally got a bottle of Campbeltown Lock sherried version. It's everywhere now and the prices are all over the place. I can get it for $55 here but I have seen it over $80 also here. I hope you get a bottle instead of mooching samples.
I enjoy all of your reviews - weird stuff and single malts. I think if you had an indy Ben Nevis it would have been game over. I do like the Ardnamurchan, but as with most of the upstarts it is over-priced. The Tobermory comparison is spot on. Why pay more for the Ardnamurchan when you can get Ledaig 10 for $10 less? I have kept Ardnamurchan in stock by opportunistically taking advantage of sales though. Glenglassaugh is one of those step children of single malts. Since they were neglected under Billy Walker, I don’t see much better treatment under Brown Forman.
Thanks! Fair points all, although IB Ben Nevis is outrageously expensive these days. As for Glenglassaugh, I maintain hope because I love the eastern highland style and I hope it returns to its old glory one day...
@@differentspirits4157 The only realistic hope is that Glenglassaugh is sold to someone who cares to develop it as a single malt. Knockando was mentioned in a previous post as being in a similar situation. I believe Scapa should also be added to that list. It is sad that these malts are so neglected considering the potential of the distilleries.
Great summary tasting of all three malts, particularly the Ben Nevis. Interesting episode after your recent one about tasting different spirits - the familiarity with diverse flavours and aromas comes through in your notes. Cheers🥂
Ha! Yes, it's a little strange to follow a video on drinking weird things with some reviews of highland malts, but that's how this worked out... 😅
Great to listen to a straightforward review of Ben Nevis, one of my favorite distilleries, and up and comers Ardnamurchan and Evolution.
I had not tried Glen Ord before your review. It would fit right in with this bunch, in my opinion. Glad I got it. Thanks.
Glen Ord would have an unfair advantage because I'm completely in love with that signature. But in principle, yes!! 😂
Ben Nevis is great stuff and in my top 10 Scotch malt producers. hope you finally got a bottle of Campbeltown Lock sherried version. It's everywhere now and the prices are all over the place. I can get it for $55 here but I have seen it over $80 also here. I hope you get a bottle instead of mooching samples.
Hey, mooching samples is my only way to keep the condo from being completely overrun with bottles!! 😂
I enjoy all of your reviews - weird stuff and single malts. I think if you had an indy Ben Nevis it would have been game over. I do like the Ardnamurchan, but as with most of the upstarts it is over-priced. The Tobermory comparison is spot on. Why pay more for the Ardnamurchan when you can get Ledaig 10 for $10 less? I have kept Ardnamurchan in stock by opportunistically taking advantage of sales though. Glenglassaugh is one of those step children of single malts. Since they were neglected under Billy Walker, I don’t see much better treatment under Brown Forman.
Thanks! Fair points all, although IB Ben Nevis is outrageously expensive these days. As for Glenglassaugh, I maintain hope because I love the eastern highland style and I hope it returns to its old glory one day...
@@differentspirits4157 The only realistic hope is that Glenglassaugh is sold to someone who cares to develop it as a single malt. Knockando was mentioned in a previous post as being in a similar situation. I believe Scapa should also be added to that list. It is sad that these malts are so neglected considering the potential of the distilleries.
@@timothymuehlfeld6975 I really want to do a Scapa review, except... there aren't any that look appealing. Which indicates the problem.
Binny’s has two cask strength IB Ben Nevis’s priced at $79.
@@josephdevine8768 I have the Duncan Taylor, what is the other one?
I think i got the same batch of the Ardnamurchan. It was on sale for 45 EUR. Do you think it was a good deal?
Considering the new distillery tax? Yeah, that's not bad at all.