I've got a bottle of Port Ellen lurking at the back of my cupboard somewhere-meant to be good drizzled over ice cream.....
It will be. But do you really want to pour a legendary and expensive whisky from a distillery that closed forever 30 years ago over your ice cream? I'll bet you can make a good coq au vin with Domaine de la Romanée Conti too.
I don't know who made it but was honoured to be able to sample a 50-year-old Scottish (ndei) when I stayed with a friend at Saint Andrews. I had it without water and I remember it being almost clear. I still have my eyesight
It's true to say you have to be careful with the water with very old whiskies, and the sherried ones sometimes don't get along with it too well, so easy does it. A very clear old whisky will have been aged in a pretty spent cask, meaning that it took it 50 years to get to where the same Scottish in a different cask might have aged to the same point in 20 years. Older is by no means always better.
All ready now - bring it on! Today, completed wrapping presents, found labels I bought but too late already used something else. Dental check up, all good. Had nice rib eye steak for dinner. Tomorrow will probably go to Wells for a wander and take the dog. Usually very quiet Christmas Eve as everyone else is in the Supermarket.
Termis cleaned and refitted, shock likewise , and rear seat re fitted , fitted at shortest settings..I must say I have fitted a good few exhausts in my time but never had such a good and easy fit as with these Termis ,( " racing use only ", twin equal length rear box entry ) , pleasure to work with, I suppose at the price they should be !!
Even with my damaged tastebuds I could tell this was very special and I was in any case quite happy to trust the experience of the owner born and bred of the area, a true whisky connoisseur and a wise one at that.
