Speyburn 10, Remarkable bang for the buc

Kilkerran 8yrs Sherry cask is nectar of the gods. Not easy to find or cheap though…

Coastal profile I find the Raasay distillery is one I enjoy. Enjoyed your list agreed with most not all

Nice blaze!

It’s great when you put all your choices in one frame. I screen shot that and use it as a reference. Thanks when you do that.

Great list with a slash of humor. Cheers 🥃

Excellent list, Geoff. FWIW, here's where I'd go: * Budget-friendly non-scotch: Maker's Mark 46 * All-rounder: Craigellachie 13 * BB-peated: Kilchoman Machir Bay * Peat-sherry: Signatory Vintage Ballechin 10 y/o * Older whisky: Loch Lomond 18 * Sherried: Glencadam Reserva Andalucia * Gentle: Aultmore 12 Keep up the good work.

Looks hot right next to that fireplace. Awesome post. Lookin for the SB 12 cask strength review. Keep em rolling.

You are a blessing Geoff, love your videos ❤

thank you. i like your list.

Well-considered lesser spoken-of picks!

Great job G! 👏👍👌

Always gets a like from me mate.

loving the consistent humour in your videos.... great stuff.......

‘…Nikka has a little bit of everything’ - including Scotch 😆

Nice list Geoff!!

Fine choices Geoff, I finished a Ben Rinnes 12 single cask Indie (Hepburn’s Choice ) which was very very good and I picked it up on special offer for 48 euros. There are deals to be had today and this weekend…. Thanks 🙏 for the laughs 😊well done ✅ ciao Grazie 🙏 S.

Love your videos .

Good stuff!

I just tried the Nikka Miyagikyo yesterday at a mixer. Really nice. Great recommendations

An interesting and unpredictable selection -- well-done Geoff!

Speyburn 18 is spot on and great value. Good job!

Hi Geoff, as always an excellent list video 👍. If someone wants to buy me a whisky as a present I tend to ask for a gift voucher instead, then I can go to my local specialist shop and behave like a kid in a sweet shop. Slàinte Geoff.

Just popped in to give that like for the video to feed the algorithm, will watch the video when I have some break soon. 😁 Edit 1: guess for mystery pour: Cregallachie 13 ✔️🎯 Edit 2: Great list Geoff! Really surprising choices there and love the fact that the Speyburn;18 made it to the list! 😁🥃 My wishlist for this year's Christmas: - Kilchoman Loch Gorm 2023 - Edradour Caledonia 12 - Bladnoch 14 Oloroso Sherry Cask - Ardnamurchan Paul Launois release Bring it on Santa 🎁 I was a good enthusiast all year long! Cheers my friend 😁🥃🥃

Hey man, thanks for the fun content (as always). Slightly unrelated comment, but since you mentioned Benrinnes, I recently picked up a cask strength Signatory 10yo Benrinnes (ex bourbon) based on one of your older videos on the Flora and Fauna series. I've only had a few sessions with it, but damn is it meaty and savoury!

Great list Geoff. Also great job with regularly coming up with interesting videos. I imagine that can be challenging. Have yourself a great thanksgiving with friends and family.

The Teerenpeli Single Malt from Finland and Bivrost Single Malt from Norway🍇🍈🍉🍊

Thanks for sharing Geoff. A list from which every whisky lover must be able to pick something enjoyable. And for me personal, also something horrble.... but you already knew that when you made the list. Slàinte mhath

Not bad Geoff, the Benrinnes through me as I'm doing a Flora and Fauna collecting and so far not had a bad one 🙂 I think Welsh Torro will be posting soon to assist you in the Welsh language ;-)

Great list Geoff and as long as, Craigellachie 13 regular is recommended, consider us being on the same page. Haven't had all of them but Miyagikyo bottle was great throughout this past summer for me. Onto some peaty ones heading into the holiday season and winter.

I really like the Speyburn 15 and I haven’t tried the 18-year old yet. Now I am curious.

Thanks for a great list! I don’t know to which category it would fit, but my choice would be Ledaig Rioja Cask Finish. Just bought a bottle (partly because of your recommendation), and I’m totally blown away by it. Also it’s a real bang for the buck. PS. Those squirrels still make me giggle😁

Madeira matured whiskies are something really special and wonderful. Hope to see you reviewing some more of these.

Bro you are making me thirsty. Love your list. Just got myself some Port Charlotte 10, A Classic Laddie (what a value) and a Bunnahabhain 12. My big three right now. Wasn't too sold on the Craigellachie 13. But yes I finished the bottle happily.

Thank you, Geoff, for your nice assortment! Don´t know if this qualifies as a lesser known option as much hype as the distillery has seen throughout the last years, but today i went to my most favourite whisky shop to pick up something i ordered before and mentioned i wouldn´t really need the change for anything what left us with a 40 euro budget so i told my most favourite whisky shop owner, she´s a lady, it´s your choice, just give me something i´ll really like. So i ended up with a Ledaig sinclair series rioja cask finish and it´s astonshingly beautiful, especially considering the low price. it has everything: it´s fruity, it´s smoky, it´s bold but elegant at the same time, there´s a slight breeze of ocean as you´d wish in an island whisky and most important it´s delicious.

Good video Geoff. Not tried all of these but I've had the Craigellachie 13, HP, Laga 8 and Penderyn Madeira, and I have to agree with you on these. Especially the Penderyn Mediera. I live in Wales, and Penderyn are my local distillery, being about 15 miles away. By the way, Penderyn is pronounced slightly differently. its pronounced more like "Pendehrin" (so the first half doesnt sound like "Pender", more like "Pendeh", no "er" sound in the middle, more of an "eh" if you know what I mean! GOD its difficult putting sounds into words sometimes!!!😁 By the way, I can 100% recommend the "Penderyn Peated Portwood" (not to be mistaken with the "Penderyn Portwood" and the "Penderyn Peated" by the way, the "Peated Portwood" is a totally different beast) Really recommend you get yourself a bottle. It's an absolute stunner. One of my all-time favourites in fact...and I've tried LOADS (not as much as you of course!) 😄Keep up the good work. Fantastic channel.

Hey, happy Thanksgiving, @G! ( belated. from october! )

You joke, but peanut butter and vegemite is an umami flavour-bomb. Highly recommend.

It's always fun to watch lists. 🎉 Would love to get my hands on Speyburn 15 or 18.

Some solid and interesting choices there. I’m hoping to try an expression by Glasgow 1770 and the Torabhaig cask strength over Christmas…I hope Santa is kind this year 🎅🏽

Interesting recommendations - in the sherry/peat line, Glasgow 1770 has never been of interest. This really surprised me. Christmas is all about surprises! Happy holidays - and many good things under the tree.

Utada Hikaru literally has a song with the lyrics "You’re easy breezy and I’m Japanesey" 🤣. I'm sure she'd give us the pass.

Another awesome vid, Geoff! That Penderyn is missing some gold flakes, but other than that, solid! 😋

Lucky for me?👀 come on Geoff

Hello Geoff, nice Video as always. Thanks for that. On my Wishlist for this Year are Port Charlotte PMC 01, Port Charlotte SC 01, Glen Scotia Mermaid 12yo, or an IB Single Malt from Islay with a double-digit Age Statement. 😅 Greetings from Germany 😎🤘

Penderyn whiskys are perfect for beginners, so easy to drink

Great list, lot of stuff I haven't tried either. The cragallachie 13 isn't a surprise haha. Couple months back, I bought all my friends a bottle of AD Sherry, so that's the xmas list for me :)

I know what you mean - most of my friends are Polish. A nice list with good reasons given for the choice. I'd be happy to receive any or some or all of these under the tree. Yuletide greetings.

Decent list. For bare-bones peat, I like BenRiach Curiositas. I thought it had been discontinued, but there's a store near me that keeps on selling it and I keep on drinking it. 55 USD. Peat+sherry = Machir Bay. Gentle - Clynelish 14; older - nah, I'll pass. lol; non-scotch, Old Forester 1920 (bourbon). Sherried - Tamdhu 12 (or 15 if you want to spend).

Geoff I picked up a 20 cl Matisse Old. I see it is well known in Taiwan. I’d be interested in your thoughts.

A real whisky geek list! Been hunting for that Benrinnes for ages never seems to show up in Canada. Will give the Kingsbarns and the Japaenee--y one on a go on our recommend you've never steered me wrong so far. Fav bottles for me at the moment which would all make great gifts for a Scotch lover: Ancnoc 18, Craigellachie 17, Bladnoch anything, Arran 10 (never gets old), G&M Mortlach 15, Glencadam 15, Glenfarclas 15, Hazelburn 10, and an honourable mention to Ancnoc 12 which I can get for $50 CAD in Alberta. I dare anyone to find a better value than that. Cheers!

All good. Big Peat 12 seems to me to go very much under the radar. Its ca. for 37 EUR here in Czechia, which I think is a good price.

That was quite a "mystery pour". No one could guess that one:)

Solid solid list Geoff. Bare Bonds peat I have to go with Laphroaig 10 cs, I can't argue with Miyagikyo, but I haven't tried the Speyburn 18. I tried the 10 and was massively underwhelmed but I think I need to get my hands on that 15. Happy holidays ahead Geoff, hope you get a dram from this list, cheers!

Bought the miyagikyo for part of a Japanese whisky tasting this holiday season. Japanese whisky is Hard to get here in ontario Canada but for whatever reason an abundance of options recently showed up in our liquor stores (mostly gone now). Looking forward to trying it. Each of my boys is getting a bottle of yoichi to take home. You have some interesting choices. I’ll keep an eye out for the 18 yo speyburne and the benrinnes. Bought the craiglachie 13 recently. Great finish but … not for me. Cheers!

Interesting list and I love the choice of categories. 👌 My list in order of categories: Port Charlotte Islay Barley, Benromach Cask Strength, Dalwhinnie 15, Longmorn 18, Indri Trini, Clynelish 14/Kilkerran 12, Glenturret 12

I'd describe the price points of Nikka's whiskies as "financial ruin before getting tipsy" in Europe and "expedited liver cirrhosis twice over with money to spare" in Japan. I nearly did a double backflip when I first saw a bottle of Yoichi in a store there.

glasgow 1770 LOOKS like christmas, lol (with all the green on the labeling, and slight reddish hue of the sherry cask malt, im guessing also its not natural color)

I love the Lagavulin 8. Like the Craighallachie 13, it is very underrated in the whisky community IMO .

On my list: Arran 10 (I have the Bothy, but have never tried the 10), Machrie Moor 10 (before it disappears entirely), and Lochlea Fallow.

Geoff, my wife and I just got back from a ten-day trip to Tokyo. While there, I was intently whisky shopping. My target was any special, hard to find Nikka Miyagikyo or Taketsuru. I had a hard time finding Nikka on the shelves in Tokyo. The only ones relatively more available was the Nikka Super. I did come across the regular Miyakigio that is readily available here in California. I found many bottles from lesser known distilleries. So I ended up taking home a Togouchi Sake Cask. I just had a dram while watching this video. It is bland as heck. However, I did find some interesting tastes; green apple, for example.

Picked up an anonymous AD/ 08.22:03 46.8%. Haven’t tried it yet. It was the last one on the shelf.

Where can I get a slow motion fire like that?!!

Hi Jeffrey.

Nikka from the barrel

I am the worst at actually drinking wiskies that are gifted to me.

I've never had springbank. Hmmm...

Geoff, in my market (Boston MA), Penderyn is 20% higher priced than Craigalachie.

Glasgow 1770 is hard to find.

The logs, they burn nothing 😮

Hi Jeff would like to know which market you belong to? ie where you live and buy your whisky. Because in Ontario, Canada the prices of some bottles that you mention are way too high (especially during the big price increase during the last 6 months) and sometimes not even sold. Thanks.

Gift list for myself?😅

Bunna 12 instead of Benrinnes;)

Must be difficult balancing what’s truly delicious while staying unrepetitive. Well done!

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Men of exquisite taste. Gentlemen. Pause. Or ladies... 😂

Geoff your wit and knowledge is absolutely fantastic but you should learn how to pronounce Penderyn during your research 😂

do you like pizza?

You left out non-binary whisky drinkers 🙄😆