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[QUOTE]Originally posted by FivePTSlow: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by 9cobra7: [qb] Damn your making me want to have a scotch right now! I have to go buy a bottle of this, your quite the salesman. I love good scotch!! You have some nice ones in your little collection there buddy. Cheers. [/qb][/QUOTE]The odd thing is that I didn't really liked Scotch to start with. Up until about a year ago I thought it was horrible. It took actually opening my mind and trying some decent Scotch to realize how good Scotch can be. After a full day of wine tasting in Napa courtesy of some good friends we went to their parents house. Started off with some Johhnie Walker Black Label, then moved onto some Johnnie Walker Gold Label. I was pretty amazed by how good the Gold Label was. This was all back in April of last year. Then I started looking into Scotch, researching, reading tons of stuff, learning about the regions, how blends differ from single malts etc So, I figured if JW Gold Label was good, then JW Blue Label must be Great. In fact JW Blue is absolutely amazing and hard to beat at it's price point. Total Wine & More now has JW Blue for $139.99 which is $20 less than I paid for it @ bevmo. I picked up JW Blue for New Years Celebration with the same good friends that took us wine tasting. Then after JW Blue I figured I should try a single malt, so after much debate and reading I grabbed Highland Park 12 Year Age Statement Single Malt Scotch. I was absolutely blown away at how complex the flavor was and how much better than any Bourbon I had ever tasted it was. From then on I have been hitting Whisky forums and talking with folks in the Scotch aisles at the stores, asking for the Scotch experts on hand etc. Yesterday I probably spent two hours at Total Wine & More since their selection is huge compared to bevmo. I talked to three different employees who knew a thing or two about Scotch, and several other customers. After that I just couldn't pass up a 100 points Scotch since I had never seen one before. Mine is the 44th bottling of A'Bunadh. All of the other bottlings I could find had at least 96 out of 100 points. Typically from what I've seen you have to get into the 30 year Single Malt Scotch to get to 96 points or above. Here's a review from a Scott that has reviewed over 400 Whisky's. He has the ability to articulate the flavors he's tasting a lot better than I, so if you're curious about this Aberlour this would be the review to watch. http://youtu.be/AfnTeOukYAs From the videos I've watched from Ralphy he knows his stuff and is spot on. He seems completely unbiased by big name labels and will inform you based on his honest opinion. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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