Monday, February 14, 2011

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Highlander Inn, Speyside Whisky Bar tip in

It is not the largest in the Speyside Whisky ( because the opposite Craigellachie Hotel has a few more bottles on the shelf), but the bar determined by the most knowledgeable staff!

The selection is deliberately kept smaller so you have no fear, is already on oxidized and total shysters Whisky (bottle with a low level, the wait already for years on a customer) to come. One to two questions from the bartender, what would have been for pleasure, and already have a suitable filling is facing on the counter. This is how fun trying! ... Is also for someone who already knows some whiskey ;-)

Now the Highlander Inn next to Duncan Elphick, * the * man of whiskeys from Craigellachie, even Tatsuja Minagawa of Japan, many years ago has devious because of the whiskey to Scotland. This does not prevent him, nevertheless make on many shows for Japanese whiskey whiskey strong.

Japan meets Scotland

what do I do in the Highlander Inn? Clear: try a couple of very special single cask bottlings Japanese! This got the whole evening Tatsuja his grin off his face no more:

We were in the heart of Whisky Country, in the bar were five Japanese, two Canadians and one German, who then falls even on Japanese whiskey. He called it a crazy world - I have a new experience! For where else will you get the opportunity to drink, so exotic Japanese whiskeys?

So what did I have to definitely try:

Karuizawa, 1982-2009 , First fill sherry, 56.1% vol. (Sukhinder Singh bottling)
nose "thick" Sherry toffee, fudge, chocolate, and it sits on a fine leather sofa ;-)
Taste: clearly sherry, raspberry, dark chocolate - the wood is surprisingly well integrated and interferes in any way
finish: very long and a chocolate, ending just does not want

Hakushu 1989-2009, 62% vol . sherry butt (Suntory)
nose chocolate bar with lots of caramel (Mars ???), Raisins, cognac beans "with a sugar crust
Taste: Chocolate & Sherry - but where is my cognac beans go? (Which is in the mouth disappeared), the
less wood palates, suggests as you wish and the 62% we hardly notice (and without the water a taste explosion on the palate)
finish: very long, with much sherry and chocolate

Conclusion
Somehow I had that night in the "chocolate-shelf" used and I have no regrets about being cheated in Speyside with two Japanese whiskeys ;-)

Even otherwise the Highlander Inn as a starting point for tours in Speyside ideal: it offers Bed & Breakfast in nice renovated rooms - and many whiskey goals are just around the corner



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