Glenmorangie
Correspondent:: König Prüß, GfbAEV
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:53:17 GMT
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Luxury products group LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis
Vuitton said Wednesday that it agreed to buy scotch maker
Glenmorangie
for $545 million
Correspondent:: "iDRMRSR"
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:46:35 -0400
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>>Luxury products group LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis
Vuitton said Wednesday that it agreed to buy scotch maker
Glenmorangie
for $545 million
Many a bottle of this manna has brought me to the floor on a number of
occasions when SSRI's have completely failed. It goes down smooth, kind of
warm in fact, and goes directly to the brain where it nestles for a few
hours.
It even comes back up kinda tasty.
You can even manage to go to work the next day without a trace of hangover,
too.
As they say on Ebay A++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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PS I have a bottle of 1971, yes that's right, 1971, which I bought a couple
years ago on account of that's the year I turned 21.
Correspondent:: asscoassc@aol.comsucks (AssCo Assc)
Date: 29 Oct 2004 14:33:28 GMT
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McClelland, however, is on sale.
Highlands, $15.00.
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Hmm, subtle undertones of the sea, heather, sputum,
vomitus and peat moss.
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Correspondent:: König Prüß, GfbAEV
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 14:46:30 GMT
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iDRMRSR wrote:
> >>Luxury products group LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis
> Vuitton said Wednesday that it agreed to buy scotch maker
> Glenmorangie
> for $545 million
>
> Many a bottle of this manna has brought me to the floor on a number of
> occasions when SSRI's have completely failed. It goes down smooth, kind of
> warm in fact, and goes directly to the brain where it nestles for a few
> hours.
>
> It even comes back up kinda tasty.
>
> You can even manage to go to work the next day without a trace of hangover,
> too.
>
> As they say on Ebay A++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> [*]
> -----
> PS I have a bottle of 1971, yes that's right, 1971, which I bought a couple
> years ago on account of that's the year I turned 21.
Yeah, I know the virtues of good drinkin'
whiskey! But I have been told that there
is a lingering scent to good Scotch, and that
I still smell like Scotch the next day although
I don't notice that I'm still drunk or not.
And yes, vintage liquor is probably a good
investment, but I've never been able to
refrain from drinking my reserve!
I once found a bottle of 1947 Armegnac
for $130 that I should have bought, as it's
likely worth much more by now; but hey! I would
have drunk it anyway!
http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/wine/2004/04/14/cx_np_0414feat.html?partner=netscape
Super Single Malts
Nick Passmore
Click here for the slide show.
For lovers of single malt Scotch whiskies, this is a dram good time to be
alive, a veritable golden age of plenty where tavern shelves groan under an
ever-expanding selection of bottles.
The range of single cask whiskies from independent bottlers is increasing
constantly, and the big distilleries, having woken up to the commercial
potential of the liquid gold lying heretofore unappreciated in their cellars,
have begun offering an expanding range of limited production, special-edition
bottlings of their own.
The upside is that in the past decade dozens of new whiskies have been
introduced into the U.S. and international market. There are few upmarket, and
even some downmarket, establishments where a selection of single malts, as well
as exclusive blends, cannot be found. The downside is that, particularly with
the U.S. dollar struggling against the British pound, a slug of high-end
Highland hooch can set you back $20 or more, depending on the age and rarity of
the whisky in question.
Yet a growing number of Americans are willing to pay more for better whisky. In
a notable shift, the trend toward these so-called super-premium whiskies has
led to a decline in consumption of what the industry politely terms "value"
scotches. As a result, many more established makers have begun to offer their
own super-premium blends, such as Diageo's (nyse: DEO - news - people ) Johnnie
Walker Gold and Johnnie Walker Blue. They have also started to acquire
respected makers of single malt; for example, Allied Domecq (nyse: AED - news -
people ) bought Laphroaig, a leading maker of Islay malt, and Brown-Forman
(nyse: BFB - news - people ) markets Highland distiller Glenmorangie in North
America.
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Even though vodka is still the leading alcohol in the U.S., accounting for
nearly $3 billion in sales, the Scotch whisky industry has plenty of reasons to
blow its bagpipes. (Vodka also costs considerably less than Scotch; a
750-milliliter bottle of super-premium vodka will rarely cost more than $30,
whereas the same category of single malt can easily push north of $100.)
According to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, the overall
whisky market in the U.S. generated more than $1.3 billion in 2003, a 4%
increase from the previous year. The greatest growth, however, was in the
super-premium category, which accounted for $677 million in 2003, an increase
of 11% from 2002. Of the 9.2 million cases of scotch sold in the U.S. in 2003,
more than a third of them were super-premium.
Not bad for a drink that was invented by poor Scots crofters trying to keep out
the chill of a Highland winter.
But let's get back to why more and more people are willing to spend so much for
good single malt. For one thing, there's the taste. It's a fair thing to say
that no single malts taste the same, and many connoisseurs will swear by their
particular brand. Some people prefer a dry and peaty Islay, others the
sweetness of a Speyside or the depth of a Campbeltown. So what's a
befuddled--by this abundance of choice, of course, not the whisky
itself--aficionado to do?
We at Forbes.com decided to help out by conducting an exhaustive survey, the
results of which are my highly personal, totally subjective list of the best
single malt Scotch whiskies.
The competition was extremely fierce, and the final list is in fact a
distillation--pun intended--from the larger selection of great scotches that I
have come to appreciate over a couple of decades of tasting. Frankly, there are
an awful lot of good malts out there, and picking a top ten was not easy. Now,
while this is a great situation for a whisky aficionado, it does make the job
of winnowing down the list difficult, and some awfully good drams had to be
left out.
It's also very hard to quantify beauty. It's not unlike the problem of coming
up with a list of the most beautiful movie stars of all time; sure, it's hard
to leave out Jean Harlow or Gwyneth Paltrow, but up against Audrey Hepburn and
Sophia Loren they don't have a chance.
Because there are so many different styles of single malts, and a subsequent
diversity of tastes, I have broken down the top ten list by regions. And, as is
traditional, I am starting with the Lowlands.