murphyebass wrote: » Well considering blackwater distillery confirmed it was the 2nd batch to a mate of mine through Twitter I’d say I am in a position to know that.
dobman88 wrote: » Dya have a link to the tweet? I didnt bother picking it up yesterday cos I have a batch 1 already but if its just a label mix up and it is actually batch 2 I'd pick it up. Sorry for asking but I've had a look through their Twitter and couldnt see them mention it. Cheers.
odyssey06 wrote: » Beyond a certain point taste preference is going to come into it. But along the continuum of the style of the whiskey, the more expensive whiskey should have more depth, complexity, layers, length than than cheaper one. If the expensive whiskey isn't in a style you like (too peated, too sherried or whatever) then you would prefer a €30 bottle of the style you do like. But if it's a rough young blend even in the style you do like, then an expensive bottle of the style you don't like would still have some qualities you might pick up on in terms of length, smoothness etc that you can appreciateI think same would apply with wine.
murphyebass wrote: » Posted the tweet on the last page. Looks like a label mistake to me. Bottle is new. Cork is new. And it does taste different. Not massively so but I’m getting sweeter notes to this one. Lookin forward to some more of it tonight. :-)
dobman88 wrote: » Sorry. I still cant see it so not sure what I'm missing. the beer revolu has cleared it up anyway thankfully.
murphyebass wrote: » Someone tweeted this from the distillery calling it batch 2 so that’s the confusion. Anyway I’m glad I bought three bottles. Very nice whiskey.
NIMAN wrote: » Think it was around £75 per bottle. I remember thinking about how each glass cost more than I'd normally pay for a bottle, and surely it can't be worth it. But it was the best wine I had ever tasted, absolutely beautiful. It was a nice treat and shows what money can buy.
pleasant Co. wrote: » You weren't being accused of lying, however, you are no more than some random person on the internet saying something. You said "It should say batch 2. Not batch 1", but you also have the tweet to back it up, insert the confirming tweet at this point and we can all see it's blackwater distillery saying so and not the random internet person.
odyssey06 wrote: » I should add that beyond a particular price point you are probably paying just for a perceived rarity or celebrity value or some USP, like a bottle from a closed distillery, or a chateau's finest vintage. As in, I think we can understand that a 12 year old whiskey costs more to produce than a young blend, or that wines from lower yielding sites is about quality than quantity, more hand picking of selected grapes etc But how much of the difference in price between the €1000 bottle and the €100 are production costs \ amount of labour. Diminishing returns start to set in after a certain point.
Nijmegen wrote: » That being said, the way pricing works in Ireland thanks to duties, there is a definite point of improving returns in the quality of the juice you can get at the lower to mid end.
the beer revolu wrote: » I don't really get where you're coming from here. A €200 46% bottle has the exact same duty as a €40 46% bottle and they both have the same vat rate.
odyssey06 wrote: » It's a flat amount. So on a €40 bottle of 30% of the money you spent is duty. On a €200 bottle less than 10% is duty. Similarly on wine, whatever bottle you buy you have a sunken cost of €4-€5 in duty.
Cazale wrote: » Tommy Tiernan fell down his stairs and hurt himself the other day. His anecdote reminded me of myself and a few others on this thread. I was wearing socks and carrying whiskey, and I had a book in me hand, a book about God. And I was gone, I went all the way down from the second step. I was delivered then out onto the floor, helpless like a baba, roaring.” He said he hurt his leg “all the way from the kneecap up to the top of my thigh. I broke nothing but muscle has come off bone or tendons are stretched, something like that. The ribs are done in as well. The ribs weren’t from being hit, the ribs were from some weird stretch that I did in the fall. He joked: “As I was falling I was just focused entirely on the whiskey.”
the beer revolu wrote: » I understand that. I perhaps don't understand the comment I was responding to.
The Inbetween is mine wrote: » https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/irish-family-run-distillery-wins-best-new-whiskey-in-the-world-award-1102033.html Outside of The Whistler, I know nothing about them, anybody here know what their whiskeys are like?
odyssey06 wrote: I'm not sure if the awarded products are commercially available yet outside of samples e.g. best new make spirit.
Cazale wrote: » I tried a 25ml sample of their new spirit during a tasting with their master distiller and remember enjoying it. I wish some of the new distilleries would release their unaged new make while we are waiting. I've tried new make from Clonakilty, Waterford, Royal Oak distillery, Powerscourt, Teeling, Cooley and Killowen before and it's interesting to see where the spirit might go.
BonnieSituation wrote: » I have had a page opens in chrome for months now to remind me to go researching new makes.https://coolmaterial.com/food-drink/best-white-whiskey/ I'm the same as yourself, I would love the option rather than waiting oir just gin.
Cazale wrote: » Good link. Kilbeggan released a set in 2009 of spirits aged 1 month, 1 year and 2 year. Turns up at auction regularly for between 20-30 euro. I must try pick one up.https://www.scotchmaltwhisky.co.uk/spiritofkilbeggan.htm
Mellor wrote: » That tweet in no way confirms that it was a cock up with labels. As I said, it maybe have been. But we don’t know that and it’s a bit much to be asserting that. Edit: Just it was confirmed above that it wasn’t a mistake. As I said, batch # refer to distillation a few years ago. And in no way connect to Aldi's logistics and purchasing.
