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I'll Drink to That! What is your favorite beverage to have with a cigar? Juice? Cola? Beer? Port? Single Malt Scotch? This room is for the discussion of beverages, especially alcoholic beverages that go well with cigars!

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Old 03-04-2018, 01:39 PM   #11
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Old 03-04-2018, 02:10 PM   #12
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Yeah. And when I open them in 10 years they are probably going to be iced tea.
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Once had some old bottles of 1972 Lafite Rothschild (yes... there actually WAS some produced from that seriously substandard vintage) that tasted like tea...

Good tea, mind you.
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Once had some old bottles of 1972 Lafite Rothschild (yes... there actually WAS some produced from that seriously substandard vintage) that tasted like tea...

Good tea, mind you.
LOL. I bet.

I meant my boys might replace the contents between now and graduation.
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LOL. I bet.

I meant my boys might replace the contents between now and graduation.
I read that in hemingway once.
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Doug, I don't generally hit the single malt aisle, but I did look at a couple of comps.

Aberlour 18 - from $137.99 to 101.24
Aberlour a'Bunadh - from 106.99 to 79.96

Redbreast 15 Irish - from $113.99 to 85.18
Aberlour a’Bunadh is regularly $80 here in PA. That’s surprising to me that that store normally charges $113.99. I bought a bottle last year and enjoyed it very much, more so at the end when the strength had mellowed a bit.
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I haven't bought an a'bunadh in quite some time (the last batch I purchased being No. 23), so I can't speak to the relative quality of more recent releases.

Some members on a whisky site have remarked about sulphury notes being present in recent bottlings (probably derived from some of the ex-Sherry casks used to mature the whisky in). Depending on one's tolerance to this characteristic, it could be a factor in deciding whether or not to purchase.
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