Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>>uuhhmm, a single malt comes from Scotland but is NOT a "Scotch" IMO, it's >>a single malt. I say "Scotch" if I mean one of those blended lowland >>Whiskies > >Didier, then what do you call a Highland or Speyside blended whisky? "Highland blended", "Speyside blended" or just "blended". If one talks about Scotch (JW, Chivas, JB, and so on) it's anyway clear it's neither about malt nor single. I remember I once had a quite decent Speyside Aberlour blended malt, and my wife loved it because it had a smooth taste. >>Drink your Glenfiddich straight and slow, in a cylindric crystal glass. > >.......with respect, if one is going to drink fine whisky neat, try a >fine, thin (therefore hand-blown) cognac snifter. A cylinder denies your >nose, a very important aspect of sipping malt whisky. Or any other fine, >aged spirit. >Seth Seth, this is as endlessly discussable like the difference between the bokehs of the different 35 preASPH summicron generations (to stay on topic :-) ... Whisky-book author Michael Jackson (not to be confounded with the self-proclaimed king of pop) goes even further recommanding another glass for every malt... he mentions just everything from handblown snifters to tin mugs... Cheers Didier