This was probably the best advice I got when I did my first tasting at a whisky tasting show in Canberra this year. I used to buy bottles from known distilleries but I could never figure out why everything wasn't consistent. Until I realised that casks gave me the language to discover what flavour profiles I liked. So now I know I like whisky from sherry casks, ex-bourbon casks and Japanese Mizunara casks! Now my shelf has a range of bottles from a ton of distilleries and I'm rarely disappointed.
Every year Stranahans has an event called Cask Thief. They create unique flavors in different casks each year. One year the aged whiskey in syrup casks from Canada! Great stuff!
Great advice 👏. It's always better to collect whiskies based on taste profiles and Cask types and not simplely based on regions. Kindly do a video recommending good value scotches for each of these different taste profiles/casks - Ex Bourbon, Sherry, Peated and so on 😊
he actually has done this, in his 15 essential whiskies video. in the intermediate section he talks about value scotches that fit into these three categories. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-O_Gtkfw7zwE.html
Wow, that's like going back to year zero but thinking about it I knew jack shit back then. These days it's a matter of working out all the cask combinations as well as cask quality.
@@FirstPhilWhisky Totally agree Phil. I got into whisky so long ago there was no advice whatsoever. You just had to consume bottles and learn on the way unless you had a more experienced friend/mentor.
Just saying "whisky" when referring to mainly Scotch is weird to me. That might be the American in me coming out. There are more whisk(e)y styles than just Scotch. Why not just say Scotch? Hopefully, I don't come across as a douche. That was not my intent.
Calling it "scotch" is pretty uncommon in the UK and probably some other parts of Europe. It's like how people in Mexico don't go get Mexican food. They just get food that is obviously made in Mexico.
