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i go rather than discuss a particular spotless spirits usually scotch single malt and go into
some detail and give a mock mark at the end of it um i'm generalizing a wee bit more in the extras
and because we're coming up to a time of year recording this in december 2021 when people
are out buying a lot a lot of whiskey i know that you're kind of curious all you malt makes around
the world as to what is ralphie buying and what i tend to do this time of year is i go out having
tasted loads of whiskeys throughout the year and i buy the ones that i've already bought in the past
and i want to buy again so i've definitely got them stashed in my stash for as and when i need
a good quality malt moment which i know the quote i know what to expect i know the value of i know
the particular batch that's i've experienced in the past and i'm going to invest in repeating that
experience in the future by buying a whiskey again and in this particular video i have a nice box
of three painted single malt whiskies which i've bought again now there's a bit of a twist with the
third one i'll introduce them one after another but in the third one there's a little bit of a
twist i'm going to go into some detail about that and i hope that my perspective is useful for you
in developing your perspective and importantly enabling a successful purchase of your single malt
moments right now what's first what have i bought i think you can really know there's a tin in there
what's for the first bottle that i've bought um again well no surprises there are big 10 year old
i don't think that it's expensive at the moment for what it is it is bottled at 46 and it's until
filtered and it's self-evident when you pour a glass that caramel colorant hasn't been added
so you have one of the finest of scotland's painted single malt whiskies delivered to an
integrity standard and at an accessible price it's not cheap course it's not look at the
quality you know the quality nobody nobody is going to dispute the quality of this whiskey
it's a benchmark for scotch whiskey and there's a number of times it's been very close
to being my whiskey of the year but at the moment always the bridesmaid never
the bride but you never know things may change in the future um and the thing about our bag
if you've got a bit of money to spend you don't
have to spend a fortune for the more expensive older versions or better
marketed versions the oogie doll is good still decent but do you know the standard 10 year old
is virtually as good as it gets so for every whiskey fan who likes the little pity moment
you gotta have a bottle of this ralphie says nuff said the second bottle i bought this year
leche 10 year old why did i buy this again because i reviewed this single malt
earlier in the year and i absolutely loved it here we go again malt mates
46.3 percent and unchill filtered yeah and not hundred percent
sure about the color there may be a little bit of coloring added to this
um but you're really not going to notice it it's a delightful non-isla
peated heavily painted single malt moment from a delightful little distillery
on mull the isle of mull just north to the north of isla so
just to have these two bottles in your shelf you can't go wrong and what's even even more
they're very different they're not just different flavors sure they're both pity but they're not
dominated and defined by that presence of pete they have character of which the peatiness is part
of the delivery not the whole thing sometimes with a painted whiskey it can be too much
paint a little bit two-dimensional around the p particularly when it's young but with these the
character really comes through and they see these ages 10 year old le chick 10 year old are big
you you're getting that full phenolic blast which has been tempered and mellowed
by semi-active and active casks both great whiskeys both affordable both
highly ralphie recommended and then we're on to our third whiskey our third peated malt moment
rummaging the rummage in the the box and here we go here's a little bit of a joker's card
killer but it's not the standard distillery bottling of kalila this is one that i'd like
to say that i bought this one this year but in fact i bought this a few years ago
but i've also been buying it this year as well it's from the independent bottler signatory who
coincidentally won the best independent bottler of the year 2021 at the oswa's go and check out
the link below malt mates in case you're not aware of what's been going on with the oswa's
look at that fine fine color see when you see ralphie smiling sweetly through the bottle
without it being too sort of brown you know you've got a wonderful color of whiskey wonderful because
it's natural this has been bottled at 46 this is the 1990 vintage 16 years old i bought this in
2007 2008 i bought this actually quite a number of years ago and put it in my stash to be opened
later i have since bought a much more recent version but i'm showing this one because i've no
idea where to put the other bottle i suspect it's actually out in the garage propping something up
let me share something with you mom mates
the standard bottling's official bottlings proprietary bottlings of kalila are generally
pretty good you get the painted version you get the unrepeated version get the cask version
now and again the standard version of kalila 12 year old is pretty good single malt whiskey
but this there's a little bit extra tequila that gains a lot of interest and a lot of respect from
the wider global whiskey community and that is the fact that kalila is by far the largest producing
distillery on the isle of isla and because of its capacity you frequently see kolilas pop up as
independent bottlings far more often than you will see our bags like volumes bulmores and broccolis
excuse me tickly throat i'll be soon sorted with another drum later on this evening
this means that when you start to explore the independent bottlers
for the their versions are kilila and it's regularly sold
to the independent bottlers which in fact the one single malt that just flies off the
warehouse shelves when it goes up for wholesale to smaller independent bottlers it never hangs around
others like strathmill they hang around for months but not kalila every independent bottler
wants casks of kalila because they know that as a standard unaffected non-finished general
bottling particularly a younger age it works spectacularly well and when you get into kalila
from the independent bottlers you get all these 101 permutations on the theme
it's amazing how diverse kalila can be depending on the provenance of either the single cast
or the small batches which are bottled by independent bottlers now this is an older
version it's a much milder gentler version of khalil i know that but when you've got
the bright fresh fruity pity firesidey version in your official bottlings it can make a very
refreshing change to have these independent bottlings giving a different not just a different
type of flavor this the flavors very identifiable but to give you the kalila in a different mood
sometimes it can be louder if it's in more active casks or quieter if it's been put into less active
gentler maturing casks so all these permutations make kalila generally a very reliable choice from
the independent bottlers and that's why i've been buying it again i had to use this one out my stash
because i still haven't found the one that i bought a couple of months ago it'll be somewhere
i will i'll discover it by accident in a few years time probably and think oh come back to daddy
i hope you find this informative and interesting and useful importantly i want this to be useful
to you because in my position as an online reviewer you'd think i'm only buying a one bottle
of with all that i review why would i buy a second bottle of anything but i do and i just put it
in the shelf and i put it aside for later and by later i mean it could be next month or it could be
next year it could be the next 10 years or maybe even never at all what a fantastic legacy for my
successes but there we go it's do you know what mole mates it's just a wonderful journey and i
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