Posted on 10/29/2008 5:15:21 PM PDT by anonsquared
Scottish distillers are getting more playful with what they add to their whiskies and how long they leave them in the cask
Bill Lumsden, the head of distilling and whiskey creation for Moët-Hennessy Louis Vuitton's (LVMH.PA) Glenmorangie and Ardbeg single-malt whiskies is a character. Not that the whisky business isn't full of creative, irascible, intriguing folks in charge of keeping our glasses filled. But having played a preposterous party game with Lumsden and others until 3 a.m. one night last May and drank from the spring that supplies Glenmorangie, I feel confident that Lumsden will have no problem getting his portion of the angel's share of whisky when he is in heaven.
Like any good distiller, Lumsden loves to play with aging his whiskies in different kinds of woods and fooling about with the mash mix. He is relentlessly curious about flavor in his whisky expressions without resorting to simple aging in oak. "I refuse to be slave to long aging when it comes to creating premium, exciting products," Lumsden told me during my recent trip to Glenmorangie in Tain, a breathtaking spot on the east coast of Scotland where poets and lovers of the sea and honey-like whisky will think they had died and gone to heaven
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It depends on how bad one needs a drink..;^)
It depends on how bad one needs a drink..;^)
I retire next year. Someone gave me a bottle of (can’t remember) but it is 38 year old single malt. I will have worked at my job 38 years next December.. Looking forward to that tasting.
Been drinking single malt for 46 years....
Uh-oh. Sounds like code for, "I'm going to figure out how to mass produce a Scottish whiskey that I can rush to market. Damn the aging."
Won't pass my lips, if that's what he intends to do.
Early congrats on your retirement! If you need someone to help you drink that, I am sure I’ll be free that day.
"But sir, she can'nae take any more aging!"
I’ve some 12 year Glenlivet that outshines 18 year McClellen I have imbibed. Age is not everything with single malt scotch.
That picture would give all new meaning to Scotty saying to Captain James Kirk -
Jim Beam me up!
I think that 12yo Glenlivet is the most underrated Single Malt out there. There’s always a bottle residing in my cabinet.
Not quite a bourbon ping but, it’s been “whiskyly” quiet lately!
You and I and David Daiches who remarks about 12 yo Glenlivet in his book, “Scotch Whisky: Its Past and Present.”
I fell in love with single malt scotch when I visited The Whisky Shop in Edinburgh in 2004.
I sampled some of that Ardmore mentioned in the article-AMAZING!
12 yr Glenlevit? My local shop keeps me well stocked.
Cheers!
I made them last as long as I possibly could but I find my self in a precariously Scotchless state at present. I did ask Santa for a bottle of Glenmorangie for Christmas though.
I wish I could find a cheaper substitute for the good stuff but it's ruined me on bourbon. Don't care for bourbon now without mixing it with a cola.
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