A fun warehouse tasting with Ian McAurthur pouring coke into a 19 year old Lagavulin. Feis Ile 2019 - 53.8% 2012 (7 year old) - 60.2% 2010 (9 year old) - 58.1% 1998 (21 year old) - 51.4% 21997 (22 year old) - 51.8%
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@broncorog31634 жыл бұрын
Up close and personal with the man, the myth, the legend - Ian McArthur. Well done. Cheers
@WhiskyMystery4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Bronco
@aerormacphault80824 жыл бұрын
A big smile appears on my face when I follow you on your trip on Islay. Brings back great memories too. I am so enjoying this. Bringing and sharing the EC was a great idea! Thanks Phil and Deepa !
@WhiskyMystery4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Aeror. I am sure we will look back on these videos when we need a reminder some months from now.
@nebulusnebulus65032 жыл бұрын
Love Lagavulin. Beautiful, magic place
@WhiskyMystery2 жыл бұрын
It was a great tasting
@Ebbhead24244 жыл бұрын
Fantastic to follow your journey, lovely whisky geeks! Thanks for sharing so much
@WhiskyMystery4 жыл бұрын
Our pleasure Ebb
@georgeobrien97484 жыл бұрын
Awesome visit. Wow, the legendary Ian McArthur.
@WhiskyMystery4 жыл бұрын
He was very entertaining
@jimmyt76404 жыл бұрын
I wish I could like this x1000. Awesome video.
@WhiskyMystery4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Jimmy
@foodquig4 жыл бұрын
This is far better than my Lagavulin tour! I didn't get to have the Ian McArthur experience... Now that I watch this, I don't remember ever going into that warehouse. We just had a taste of core expressions in that visitor center at the beginning of your video...
@WhiskyMystery4 жыл бұрын
We did not tour Quig This was the warehouse tasting only
@foodquig4 жыл бұрын
@@WhiskyMystery Oh.
@agrainofmalt4 жыл бұрын
The Lagavulin tastings always look like the most fun with a character such as Ian! :)
@WhiskyMystery4 жыл бұрын
Yes the most rowdy
@B.H902 жыл бұрын
so much fun !
@WhiskyMystery2 жыл бұрын
That was a great one
@befuddled20104 жыл бұрын
I know I'm a late comer on this post but I've got to say this sure looks like a rip of fun and those pours during the tasting look damn generous! It seems miraculous everyone got out of there in one piece. I also appreciate your comment on the water addition while tasting. I find a touch of water very revelatory with cask strength whisky. Nice to get a glimpse of mum and dad too. Cheers!
@WhiskyMystery4 жыл бұрын
Hi Aladdin. The pours are generous enough although they are half size Glencairns so probably not as big as you thought. We always save half for later into mini bottles as it always too much :-)
@WhiskyShared4 жыл бұрын
Amazing video. Hope to visit one day and hopefully Ian will still be there.
@WhiskyMystery4 жыл бұрын
Make it soon as he said he was retiring next year.
@gianlucapagnoni2834 жыл бұрын
was there at the end of august, luckily we were only 5 so the experience was superb! Iain what a character
@WhiskyMystery4 жыл бұрын
Oh must have been very nice to be in a small group. This was still fun as it was quite rowdy.
@Pississpiop4 жыл бұрын
I've had the opportunity to do this tasting twice, both with Ian, in 2017 and 2019. In November 2019 the group was only 4 people and we had a little extra time if Ian. If you do have the chance to do this, I'd recommend going off-season (Oct-Nov) so you have less people in the group. Ian will hit 50 years at Lagavulin next summer (2020) and is supposed to retire, but he admitted he is not sure he will.
@WhiskyMystery4 жыл бұрын
This was certainly a busy one. Still fun of course but yes four people would be amazing.
@ConnahJay4 жыл бұрын
Amazing you brought him some ECBP to try!!! Hahaha legendary!
@WhiskyMystery4 жыл бұрын
It was so much fun sharing ECBP around the Islay distilleries.
@WhiskyGeek4 жыл бұрын
This is great - I feel super lucky to have had such a small group when we were there now! I did take a bit of a ribbing as the only English guy there though haha 😜 I'm not sure what's worse ... whisky thrown on the floor or whisky diluted with cola 🤔 on the floor by a small margin i guess 😉 Does 'bodega' cask actually mean anything? My understanding is it's like saying a 'cooperage' cask ... I wonder if it is some of the sacrificial sherry casks that are going around.
@WhiskyMystery4 жыл бұрын
Yeah I was not sure about the bodega cask but at least it was in my glass...neat.
@djwunwun28994 жыл бұрын
Wow looks like they try to blow your palate right out of the gate w the 19yr at such a high strength. I guess they just don't want to waste time getting the party started. Another great vid. Looked like a lot of fun. 🥃
@WhiskyMystery4 жыл бұрын
They are all cask strength so makes little difference which is first 😀
@ErikWaitWhiskyStudies4 жыл бұрын
Ian McArthur is a HOOT! I did the warehouse tasting when I visited in June 2018 and got "baptized" by Ian McArthur with whisky! I've got two Jazz Festival bottles from 2018 and two Feis Ile as well.
@WhiskyMystery4 жыл бұрын
Oh nice Erik. Your head was an easy target 😀. I was excited about picking up the new Jazz festival bottle until I saw it was going to be £395.
@cookieMonsterSincho4 жыл бұрын
Amazing!!!!
@WhiskyMystery4 жыл бұрын
Fun
@greatprovider81984 жыл бұрын
Great experience
@WhiskyMystery4 жыл бұрын
Good memories
@wisgisipper68904 жыл бұрын
Was wondering if you saw or heard about the new Offerman edition at Lagavulin?
@WhiskyMystery4 жыл бұрын
No mention of it.
@GregsWhiskyGuide4 жыл бұрын
Amazing & what a privilege to meet Iain ! I envy you...then you won't believe me but the part I was most looking for was when you're pouring ECBP to him ! Glad he liked it... Accessory question : WT..(ok let's stay polite) is that Coca Cola bottle's doing in the warehouse ! I must have missed something...Cheers guys !
@WhiskyMystery4 жыл бұрын
Yes you missed Iain pouring coke into the lag 19 for the lady opposite 😀
@GregsWhiskyGuide4 жыл бұрын
@@WhiskyMystery oh sorry some parts were so noisy (too many people not listening to Iain) that I skipped a few seconds here n there will watch it again then...But yeah to be honest Laga 16 & Coke (50/50) is a "cocktail" recommended by no less than Dave Broom (great Scottish whisky writer) who experimented 50 whiskies with 5 different drinks mixed in & reported the results in a book called "The Manual" a few years ago...but I haven't dare to do it yet.. PS ok seen it & heard the disapproval of the masses lol...thanks Phil !
@WhiskyMystery4 жыл бұрын
@@GregsWhiskyGuide yeah it was a bit of a circus but funny
@sunilmajevadia38652 жыл бұрын
I met Ian on my 60th birthday ta the lagavulin distillery
@WhiskyMystery2 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a good birthday
@sehrajsinghvirk52737 ай бұрын
Did both of you drink all the drams + purchased yhe samples u mentioned at the end ? (do they give 1.their own sample bottles for drivers drams? 2.empty sample bottles for pouring some to take away like bruichladdich ?does any other islay or campbeltown distillery do that ?
@WhiskyMystery7 ай бұрын
We shared one set and kept one set. All the distilleries offered driver Dram options
@sehrajsinghvirk52737 ай бұрын
@@WhiskyMystery thanks. i mean do alll of them(islay+campbeltown) give their own sample GONTAINERS or you have to give empties to them? example-SB said u have to carry empty bottles.
@WhiskyMystery7 ай бұрын
@@sehrajsinghvirk5273 in 2019 they gave the bottles.
@bartdamen21614 жыл бұрын
It's a shame how super cold those drams are, how inept the wee glass is for smelling, and how quickly they make you knock it back. But a nice experience with the old fella nonetheless.
@WhiskyMystery4 жыл бұрын
True. No chance of 20 mins in the glass. Makes it worth taking the sample bottles to try them later with more time. It was still fun.
@jonathanmosebach29214 жыл бұрын
What type of samples did they give you? Were you allowed as many as you wanted?
@Landrum454 жыл бұрын
You should buy the 39 year Port Ellen! :-)
@WhiskyMystery4 жыл бұрын
Should have bought it 10 years ago :-)
@conserveAmericasvalues13 жыл бұрын
At 2:45 look at Mr McAurthurs face.
@WhiskyMystery3 жыл бұрын
My wife is Deaf and I am telling her what is happening. What do you have to say to that?
@conserveAmericasvalues13 жыл бұрын
Then im not talking to you. Im talking to everybody not listening. As expressed on his face
@WhiskyMystery3 жыл бұрын
Ha I just watched again and it is not even me talking. The guy next to us was talking.
@WhiskyMystery3 жыл бұрын
Ah ok fair enough. This was right at the start when everyone was settling in. It got pretty rowdy later on with this big group. All fun. Recommended if you can get there.