Ardbeg Uigeadail vs Highland Park Cask Strength Single Malt Scotch Whisky 

It really is!

Glad you enjoy it!

Phil is amazing! I wish I was 1/2 as good as a videographer!

I agree - used to love the Ugie, but the last bottle I opened was just not the same. I haven't tried the 10 for a while - would be interested to know how you get on!

Hope you enjoy it!

Yes, if someone gave me a bottle of BizarreBQ. Right now I am budy studying for exams.

Thanks for watching! Doing comparisons has changed my perception of MANY whiskies.

Yep, it is near the end. I have another on order.

@@ErikWaitWhiskyStudies Maybe save a bit of the old bottle to compare to the new one (although I am sure you had planned on that anyway) - I would be really interested to know how you think they compare.

I still like it.

@@ErikWaitWhiskyStudies good to know, thanks Erik!👍 Thankfully I still have two bottles from a few years ago. Glorious whisky.

Nope. A sherry cask can come from a Solera, it can be a cask that was used to age cheap sherry that was never in a solera, it can be a cask that only contained sherry in order to add flavor to the cask, it could be a cask that only temporarily held sherry before being bottled and the cask was kept wet so that actual sherry wine made its way into the whisky.

No, but if you say "American Oak" or "European Oak" without mentioning the previous contents you ain't telling the consumer much and whatever the previous contents were are more significant than the origin of the oak. Traditionally sherry has been aged in American oak. So, "American Oak" could refer to either Bourbon or Sherry.... or American Single Malt from Texas, or Silver Oak Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon or Tempranillo from Rioja Spain or....... on and on and on.....

Highland Park is spicy in comparison to other sherry cask Scotches (Bowmore, Bunnhabhain, Macallan) but you are correct, Rye takes it to a WHOLE other level.

@@ErikWaitWhiskyStudies That is true. Have you tried any Japanese whisky?

It means casks that still have some sherry in them, or just emptied and not drained thoroughly.

Long story short... sherry was originally exported from Jerez Spain to Scotland in the cask. When regulations changed, it had to be bottled in Spain. The time in the cask traveling on the ocean helped the wine soak into the wood and sometimes there would be a wee bit of wine left in the cask. So, a "wet cask" is when there may be some liquid remnant in the cask so that the sherry impact is not just from the spirit extracting it from the wood but from the bit of liquid left behind. Since sherry is no longer being exported in cask it seems some sherry producers (bodegas) may intentionally leave a wee bit of wine in the cask when it is shipped. This would also help keep the cask from drying out. It used to be that casks would be disassembled so that they would take up less room on a ship but the cost of cooperage eventually became higher than the cost of shipping so now both Bourbon and Sherry casks tend to be shipped intact. Did I say this was going to be short? Thanks for watching! 🥃

It depends on whether you want a hard copy that you hand write in a notebook, an app you use on your phone or a document on your computer.

@@ErikWaitWhiskyStudies I'll think about that. Thanx.

Highland Park CS and Springbank 12 CS are both peated whereas Bunnhabhain 12 CS is not. If I wanted to compare peated with non-peated that would be good. BTW, Springbank 12 CS is challenging to find and it cost $400+ in California IF you can find it. I tasted it at the Washback Bar at Springbank distillery when I was there in July 2023. Its an awesome whisky but I'm not spending $400+ on it.