Thank you for a very informative and interesting review. I have been a Bruichladdich fan, ever since I saw the original House of Cards with Ian Richardson. This drum's profile is close to Bunnahabhain 12, briny, coastal, very light peat.
The first time I had this, it was in a flight of other Bruichladdich stuff, so it was a total candy dish after the Port Charlotte. Love this stuff so much, I break this out for the peat haters.
Cannot wait to get my hands on a bottle...I still have a bit of Jim's first bottling 23.10.01 (2001 Resurrection)...which is a real treat! I'll be sad once it's gone. Thank you for reviewing The Classic Laddie!
Shayla, After enjoying Bunnahabhain 12 so much, have wanted to try this baby. Waiting on a Glenallachie 10 year CS right now and then Kilkerran 12. But will get to this one!! Cheers!
@@whiskycentral I was about to comment when you were talking about the coastal qualities of this classic laddie without all the peat. If you like classic laddie i'm sure you'll like bunna 12, it is more sherry forward, but It is one of my favorite whiskies :)
Mark Reynier and Jim McEwan were honestly bound to come together. Rock stars. It would be neat if you could get your hands on one of Reynier's Waterford bottlings
@@whiskycentral He posted something along the lines of he was getting restless and it was time to buy another distillery - and went and bought Waterford. Bottling at 50% and advertising heavily on terroir. Kind of a Reynier mark, I guess.
Bought a bottle for my buddy as a gift and never got to try it. Sounds like my kinda Scotch! Thanks for the review! Hunting for a ‘15 sounds like the ticket.
Awesome review with tons of info! I'm quite enjoying my Adam Hannett bottle. There is a proportion of French wine cask matured whisky in it that seems to give it a white wine vinegar astringency ontop of a big vanilla base. 20/163 code. I've not had any previous bottlings to compare it to unfortunately.
I'm a newbie to this one, but now that I have a bottle I keep turning to it. It has a lively tangy farmy unpasteurised honey nature to it. There's something appealing about a stereotypical 'vanilla' whisky style done right
Still my favorite distillery and tour I’ve been on, I got to sit and enjoy a chat and a dram drawn from warehouse 5 drawn by Adam Hannet. Was an amazing experience. I think the classic laddie is another awesome rendition of a really well balanced bourbon matured whisky. Ticks all the boxes for NCF and NC and the nice abv. Another cracking video as always and looking forward to next weeks review. Slainte, Kev
I can follow you very well with your melon and apricot! The coconut I do not get. All in all it is great to see someone who is similarly excited about this whisky as I am. And your description of the … well, I’d call it “Laddie Funk” with the sweet brine is great. Thanks! I completely understand you. The Freshness is coming back in the laddies - sometimes I’m missing the freshness of the old bottles they did from the stock they bought. But it is coming back, I believe. Up to now I haven’t had a Hannet bottle.
Pfalzgraf, Yeah I think it may just be my mind playing tricks on me, if cocnut is there it is just a hint! It's so fun when people get similar notes to me. I know everyone experiences whisky differently. Laddie Funk is a great description, haha I really love it. And you get the freshness too, I'm glad some of you have mentioned you know what I mean.
I'm glad you like this. Got one myself early in my malt Scotch journey and loved it. Get one every summer as it's great for hot weather dramming (and the bottle is the color of a swimming pool too) The website disclosure is great but as you can see the age of all but the youngest casks has been blacked out. This is a recent thing as before when I checked mine found they were 8-12 year old casks. I think the SMWA made them hide the age of all but the youngest casks and this is complete BS !!! I applaud them blacking them out so it is obvious they were forced to do this. Yes the ones bottled in 18/19/20 also have some wine casks too. This is underrated and have done side by sides with other more expensive special releases and prefer the classic laddie. Cant wait to see what you think of the Port Charlotte 10. Cheers Shayla
Yeah I saw that the info had been redacted and I assumed the Scotch Whisky Association had a hand in it. It's great that they're being as transparent as they can. I am excited to try a new laddie and see how it compares. The PC 10 is lovely. It will be out this Friday! Yeah I keep reaching for it, its very warm here and it has a summer vibe to it for sure. Cheers!
I really enjoyed your review and connected with it. The first time I had the Classic Laddie was as kind of an epiphany as huge as the day I tasted Lagavulin 16 for the first time. A floral and fruity single malt from Islay! Even now it is amongst my favorites, specially in its price range. Also, from Bruichladdich the Bere Barley 2010 is, in my opinion, a step up of the Classic Laddie - so very good! Bruichladdich continues to do very nice single malts, including in the peated ones. Cheers Shayla.
Awww thanks Bruno! I can't wait to try Bere barley! Bruichladdich is going to be my fav for awhile! :) I have a bottle of Laga 16 waiting for me, I can't wait.
I passed this up last time at liquor store. unfortunately because of the bottle I didn't like that it was a solid colored thing. Thanks for doing the review on this one I will definitely get one of these someday. Whiskey CHEERS.
Quality content and great info. I have been eyeballing The Classic Laddie for the last few years, but keep skipping it for another bottle i am chasing. Its time to finally grab a bottle and enjoy it.
Thanks for this fun overview, Shayla. I popped down to my corner shop and picked up a wee 200 ml Classic Laddie. 17/144, Adam Hannett, 7-ish years. 53 Bourbon casks 10 Rhône red wine hogsheads 5 Spanish red wine hogsheads 1 PX sherry butt I'll pour a dram tonight for some ST:TNG episodes that my partner has curated for me. Cheers!
@@whiskycentral Quite a different experience with this one. The color is best described as "Uric", and the palate is bitter like a radish. I don't know if you have ever accidentally tasted perfume or eaten a geranium, but it's like that. Two good Next Generation episodes, though: Data as Sherlock Holmes, and Wesley in a Star Fleet Academy inquiry. Live pro and long pours, Shayla!
@@whiskycentral Adam Hannett code on the back is L164189 20/182 9/29/2020 14:47. I have just had the neck pour…. Hoping it opens up. The Port Charlotte I have is amazing. That one is L163945 20/78 5-27-2020 11:14… love this bottle. Sad they only got 78 bottles out of it…. Angles really liked it. Cheers
I love Port Charlotte, but find Classic Laddie incredibly uninteresting. Very good video, BTW.
I'm really keen to try this whisky but it looks like a shampoo bottle!
Very nice review anyway and I love the nery info in the beginning. 😊🎉
Oh no it's not good at all, (my opinion obviously, and everyone I met in Bowmore last week) you pays your money you make your choice
I really like that you not only give us the tasting info but also educate us with the history... not every channel on UA-cam does that... BRAVO
The name of my new bottling company is "Totally Definitely Not Laphroaig."
HAHA I laughed so hard at that! I love when people screw around like that!
Thank you for a very informative and interesting review. I have been a Bruichladdich fan, ever since I saw the original House of Cards with Ian Richardson. This drum's profile is close to Bunnahabhain 12, briny, coastal, very light peat.
Thanks Christian, I just picked up a bottle of bunna 12 ;)
Always wanted to try the Classic Laddie and you made it sound delicious 🤤
I hope you like it when you try it. :) Cheers 🥂
The first time I had this, it was in a flight of other Bruichladdich stuff, so it was a total candy dish after the Port Charlotte. Love this stuff so much, I break this out for the peat haters.
Yeah I had this alongside PC 10 and it is so sweet! Laddie has a light whisper but I think that would be a great intro to a peat hater! :)
Really want to blow your mind, keep adding 1/4 teaspoon of water as you sip. It is almost impossible to drown this whisky
That will be a fun experiment! Cheers Charles!
Just grabbed a Adam Hannett Batch 21/011 ( 2021 bottling)....looking forward to opening it....great review..Cheers
Cannot wait to get my hands on a bottle...I still have a bit of Jim's first bottling 23.10.01 (2001 Resurrection)...which is a real treat! I'll be sad once it's gone. Thank you for reviewing The Classic Laddie!
Shayla, After enjoying Bunnahabhain 12 so much, have wanted to try this baby. Waiting on a Glenallachie 10 year CS right now and then Kilkerran 12. But will get to this one!! Cheers!
Can't wait to try the Bunna 12, I am buying a bottle as soon as I can! KK and Glenallachie are top on my list of whiskies to buy! Cheers DJ Beacon!
@@whiskycentral I was about to comment when you were talking about the coastal qualities of this classic laddie without all the peat. If you like classic laddie i'm sure you'll like bunna 12, it is more sherry forward, but It is one of my favorite whiskies :)
@@erikguthrie8578 awesome, yeah. I have heard great things. I will buy a bottle soon
I get a little coconut as well. And apricot and honey. I get a lot of honey. Probably my favorite non-peated Scotch.
Mark Reynier and Jim McEwan were honestly bound to come together. Rock stars. It would be neat if you could get your hands on one of Reynier's Waterford bottlings
Oh wow, didn't know he was working with Waterford. That's awesome. Waterford seems like it would be right up his alley!
@@whiskycentral yeah I guess he didnt agree with the remy cointreau takeover at bruichladdich and left to do Waterford
@@keithl7700 Yeah I felt sad that he got pushed out so quickly. He is the reason we have Bruichladdich
@@whiskycentral same! :(
@@whiskycentral He posted something along the lines of he was getting restless and it was time to buy another distillery - and went and bought Waterford.
Bottling at 50% and advertising heavily on terroir. Kind of a Reynier mark, I guess.
Bought a bottle for my buddy as a gift and never got to try it. Sounds like my kinda Scotch! Thanks for the review! Hunting for a ‘15 sounds like the ticket.
Awesome review with tons of info! I'm quite enjoying my Adam Hannett bottle. There is a proportion of French wine cask matured whisky in it that seems to give it a white wine vinegar astringency ontop of a big vanilla base. 20/163 code. I've not had any previous bottlings to compare it to unfortunately.
I'm a newbie to this one, but now that I have a bottle I keep turning to it. It has a lively tangy farmy unpasteurised honey nature to it. There's something appealing about a stereotypical 'vanilla' whisky style done right
I love this whiskey. Everytime I have it all I can think of is fresh baked bread and citrus notes.
Still my favorite distillery and tour I’ve been on, I got to sit and enjoy a chat and a dram drawn from warehouse 5 drawn by Adam Hannet. Was an amazing experience. I think the classic laddie is another awesome rendition of a really well balanced bourbon matured whisky. Ticks all the boxes for NCF and NC and the nice abv. Another cracking video as always and looking forward to next weeks review.
Slainte,
Kev
That would be amazing! I hope to go there one day in the next couple years!
The fresh crispness is due to the fact that this is a young whisky.
you forgot black art :) oh and the glasses they have sit really nice in the hand too.
Great review! Thanks for the history. Learned a lot. Need to try this.
I can follow you very well with your melon and apricot! The coconut I do not get.
All in all it is great to see someone who is similarly excited about this whisky as I am. And your description of the … well, I’d call it “Laddie Funk” with the sweet brine is great. Thanks! I completely understand you. The Freshness is coming back in the laddies - sometimes I’m missing the freshness of the old bottles they did from the stock they bought. But it is coming back, I believe.
Up to now I haven’t had a Hannet bottle.
Pfalzgraf, Yeah I think it may just be my mind playing tricks on me, if cocnut is there it is just a hint! It's so fun when people get similar notes to me. I know everyone experiences whisky differently. Laddie Funk is a great description, haha I really love it. And you get the freshness too, I'm glad some of you have mentioned you know what I mean.
I'm glad you like this. Got one myself early in my malt Scotch journey and loved it. Get one every summer as it's great for hot weather dramming (and the bottle is the color of a swimming pool too) The website disclosure is great but as you can see the age of all but the youngest casks has been blacked out. This is a recent thing as before when I checked mine found they were 8-12 year old casks. I think the SMWA made them hide the age of all but the youngest casks and this is complete BS !!! I applaud them blacking them out so it is obvious they were forced to do this. Yes the ones bottled in 18/19/20 also have some wine casks too. This is underrated and have done side by sides with other more expensive special releases and prefer the classic laddie. Cant wait to see what you think of the Port Charlotte 10. Cheers Shayla
Yeah I saw that the info had been redacted and I assumed the Scotch Whisky Association had a hand in it. It's great that they're being as transparent as they can. I am excited to try a new laddie and see how it compares. The PC 10 is lovely. It will be out this Friday! Yeah I keep reaching for it, its very warm here and it has a summer vibe to it for sure. Cheers!
I really enjoyed your review and connected with it. The first time I had the Classic Laddie was as kind of an epiphany as huge as the day I tasted Lagavulin 16 for the first time. A floral and fruity single malt from Islay! Even now it is amongst my favorites, specially in its price range. Also, from Bruichladdich the Bere Barley 2010 is, in my opinion, a step up of the Classic Laddie - so very good! Bruichladdich continues to do very nice single malts, including in the peated ones. Cheers Shayla.
Awww thanks Bruno! I can't wait to try Bere barley! Bruichladdich is going to be my fav for awhile! :) I have a bottle of Laga 16 waiting for me, I can't wait.
I passed this up last time at liquor store. unfortunately because of the bottle I didn't like that it was a solid colored thing. Thanks for doing the review on this one I will definitely get one of these someday. Whiskey CHEERS.
Hey Jay, yeah it made me nervous at first, but its good stuff! Cheers!
Outstanding review. I’ve subscribed to your channel. Keep up the great work!
Thank so much
Quality content and great info. I have been eyeballing The Classic Laddie for the last few years, but keep skipping it for another bottle i am chasing. Its time to finally grab a bottle and enjoy it.
I hope you love it! Cheers!
Great review as just got a bottle today just subscribed looking forward to more of your whiskey chat
Thanks so much Liam! So glad you are here! Cheers!
How does his compare to Bunnahabhain 12? Love Bunna 12!
Hey Jeffrey! I actually have never tried the Bunna 12 but I plan on buying a bottle soon. I think this is probably a similar prospect. :)
Marzipan taste is that inside of a bearclaw. Lol. Cheers.
Thank you dear! haha
Thanks for this fun overview, Shayla. I popped down to my corner shop and picked up a wee 200 ml Classic Laddie.
17/144, Adam Hannett, 7-ish years.
53 Bourbon casks
10 Rhône red wine hogsheads
5 Spanish red wine hogsheads
1 PX sherry butt
I'll pour a dram tonight for some ST:TNG episodes that my partner has curated for me. Cheers!
Hey Tom, please let me know what you think about it when you try it. I can't wait to hear!
@@whiskycentral Quite a different experience with this one. The color is best described as "Uric", and the palate is bitter like a radish. I don't know if you have ever accidentally tasted perfume or eaten a geranium, but it's like that.
Two good Next Generation episodes, though: Data as Sherlock Holmes, and Wesley in a Star Fleet Academy inquiry.
Live pro and long pours, Shayla!
@@zenbood oh darn it! Might have to hunt down a Jim McEwan. At least you got to watch some good TV. Cheers Tom 🥂
That bottle is my first love in scotch whisky.
It's so wonderful
You're not crazy.
Thank you BBB, haha!
I wish I would of gotten the bottle you had... mine is a 100% solid Meh..... I will find out what Mine is... but its a good bottle of nuthin....
Darn. What was your code on the back? Does it have Adam Hanetts name on the side of the bottle?
@@whiskycentral Adam Hannett code on the back is L164189 20/182 9/29/2020 14:47. I have just had the neck pour…. Hoping it opens up. The Port Charlotte I have is amazing. That one is L163945 20/78 5-27-2020 11:14… love this bottle. Sad they only got 78 bottles out of it…. Angles really liked it. Cheers
@@johnk7093 darn. Yeah I love my PC 10 from Adam but I've heard some mixed reviews on the Adam bottles of Laddie. O hope it opens up