Speysidedestillerier

[Mankan]

Prova Longmorn 15 yo. Det är en riktig höjdare .

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Och riktig billig på taxfree, typ 250 spänn för en liter.

[gnidde]

Prova Longmorn 15 yo. Det är en riktig höjdare .

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Benke ta och prova 25:an den är riktigt bra

gnidde

[johan]

Benke ta och prova 25:an den är riktigt bra

gnidde  

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Om vi pratar om G&M's Glenlivet 25 yo så är den klart "balanserad" och dessutom ganska god

[gnidde]

Om vi pratar om G&M's Glenlivet 25 yo så är den klart "balanserad" och dessutom ganska god 

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Ja det är den jag menar. Jag provade den emot 1963:an

och jag tyckte att 25:an var en klass bättre.

gnidde

[Hakan G]

Hej på er.

Jag märkte att jag missade att skriva in bland annat Mortlach och Balvenie

Resultatet blev då (med de som skrev in Mortlach och Balvenie som favorit):

Aberlour 5

Glenfarclas 5

Macallan 4

Longmorn 3

Mortlach 3

Balvenie 2

Linkwood 1

Övriga 3

Det var med andra ord inte helt lätt att avgöra, men en sak som jag blev lite förvånad över var att Glenfiddich inte fick någon röst.

[Nattlorden]

Håkan - hade du frågat efter bästa speyside standardbuteljering så hade nog Glenfiddich Solera fått lite röster... men i alla fall i min bok så är det den enda intressanta buteljeringen de har... så då blir det ingen röst på en sådan här fråga för min del, även om jag rankar Soleran mycket högt.

[Nils_Andersson]

Vadan The Balvenie och Longmorn?!

[Åke]

Läst i dagens The Scotsman:

River of gold

WILL LYONS

wine@scotlandonsunday.com

IT WAS an invitation I couldn?t refuse. Would I, along with some of the leading whisky writers and retailers on the planet, help judge a contest to find the greatest Speyside whisky? As far as I could see, there was only one snag: the venue. The competition was to be held at the Leash Club, New York.

Then I looked at the date: April 6. Being a historian, I immediately recognised it as the anniversary of the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath. Okay, I tell a lie; I recognised it as Tartan Day. So, with a little persuasion, and the promise of filing some stories that weren?t about whisky or wine, the editor allowed me to go.

So why the interest in Speyside all of a sudden? Well, apart from being Scotland?s largest whisky region, and perhaps its oldest (if you measure these things by the distillery licences), it also plays host to a rather splendid festival each year. In two weeks? time, all of the region?s distilleries - and there are in excess of 40 of them - will gather together for this year?s five-day Speyside whisky festival. It is a celebration of everything that is great about the region.

The trouble, though, is that Speyside has lost a bit of glamour to its younger and more punchy rival, Islay. So this year, to inject a bit of excitement into proceedings, Whisky magazine is seeking out the greatest whisky of them all. Thus, flanked by the legendary Paul Pacult, the leading spirits writer in the United States, and Euan Shand, proprietor of Duncan Taylor, the whisky bottlers, we set off in search of a shortlist of six whiskies from the valley of the River Spey.

Speyside made its name in the late-19th century, when a spate of distilleries grew up along the river valley. The Glenlivet is the oldest Speyside distillery, having first had its licence granted in 1824. There followed a building boom in the 1880s and 1890s, but it was the Glenlivet that established the Speyside style.

A good Speyside possesses all the elegance of a fine Burgundian wine. In fact, you could say that Speyside is to Scotch what Burgundy is to French wine. It offers the drinker not an overpowering smack of peat, but a delicious honeyed, floral sweetness. Throughout the tasting, I noted a range of flavours from citrus fruits to maple and toffee, all underpinned by a spicy, peppery tang. Given the recent trend for eulogising the delights of a strong, peaty Islay malt, I had forgotten just how nice it is to drink a Scotch whisky that doesn?t blow your tastebuds out of your mouth. Given that we had more than 30 samples to judge, it makes tasting far easier.

Of course, at this juncture I should say that, like Burgundy with the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, Speyside is the custodian to perhaps the greatest whisky of them all: the Macallan. And it is no surprise that in our final shortlist of six there were two Macallans.

So, after several hours, much discussion, a few duds, a few ringers and a couple of clear favourites, we all agreed on six whiskies that will be taken to the Speyside whisky festival for the final deciding round. These are: 25-year-old Glenfarclas, 21-year-old Glenlivet, 10-year-old Aberlour, 12-year-old Macallan, cask-strength Macallan and 15-year-old Glenfiddich Solera Reserve.

[Bullie]

Vad gäller speyside måste jag nog välja Balvenie... Men rent allmänt har jag inget favoritdestilleri. Det beror nog mer på dagshumöret och/eller tidpunkten för intaget. Svår fråga faktiskt...

Iofs så är ju Aberlour A'bunadh en av favoriterna här hemma...