Monumental Glen Scotia Warehouse Tasting - Campbeltown Whisky Vlog 

Amazing stuff. Will have to show Jo this to convince her we go to Campbeltown next 😜

@@WhiskyGeek Yes!

Oh thanks Klaus. We enjoy reliving it ourselves. Hope you have visitied or can make it some day.

I am sure not every tasting is as amazing as this one but absolutely visit Glen Scotia. The benefits of a less 'famous' distillery are obvious.

Things escalated quickly 😀

Thanks for sharing your great experience. There is a small staff at Glen Scotia so Iain is often involved.

Thanks Jay really appreciate the comments. I will email them links to the videos. When I got back to the mainland I sent them a sample of each bourbon bottle I had. I was just looking at the sample bottles we brought back from the tasting. Happy memories. Funny that you are watching the video while in Campbeltown :-)

I am glad we had been to a few more normal tastings before to appreciate just how good this one was.

It was funny that she broke out the mega collection photos half way in.

Thanks Graeme There was a lot of good chat in this tasting with genuine information and time to appreciate everything. I think we were there for 90 mins or more. A really outstanding visit as was the 30 year old final dram...and the 6 year heavily peated.

I wonder if we will look back on this and say the same thing.

@@WhiskyMystery I hope not my friend. I hope you will continue to have such experiences open to you for a long time, but commercial success has a way of making the intimate and personally engaging quite ephemeral.

@@befuddled2010 Also it was our first visit so that can not be repeated.

Thanks BTS. I think we may be Glen Scotia converts after that.

Glad you liked it.

Thanks Chris. We are lucky to go there and happy to share.

Yes John. Such a great one for the list.

We did have to sit in the park for an hour after but it was well worth it and we still have a set of sample bottles to remember this great experience. I can not imagine what those drams would have cost in a bar.

The only one that ends on the swings

@@WhiskyMystery A lovely coda, similar in role to the music at Port Charlotte hotel. Swings are an experience of pure joy, which you and Deepa were clearly experiencing, and I do mean flavour rather than alcoholic effect. As adults we should occasionally remind ourselves to get back on the swings.

@@jbar6284 that is really true

Ha ha you found our best video ;-)

Thanks Malt. Yes it was hard not to have a drink while editing. The other two were big Glen Scotia fans and we saw them again on our Springbank tour.

The time given by Roseanne and especially Iain to really talk about their work really made this trip special.

To my ear it is going towards N.Ireland (but still Scottish).

We really did need a lie down after that one

That is a great day at Springbank. Well worth it.

Thanks Neckpour. It was an outstanding visit

That was such a fun tasting.

A great tasting

Thanks Toby. Iain was a great host.

It really was.

I am so glad I recorded it as it was one of the highlights of the trip

Good point it does look like floors used to exist. I do ask Iain at the end if it makes a difference and he said possibly a tiny amount but not relevant compared to the barrel itself. Just works better practically for high stacks

@@WhiskyMystery Wrote the first comment 5 min in then had to go out. Came back and watched the rest. Wow what a great private tour! Ralfy has mentioned how quiet Campeltown is compared to other regions and this really shows it. Fun time in the park at the end :-) Cheers

@@DonnerPassWhisky Got to finish on the swings :-)

Yes!

Thanks Luis it was one to remember.

I know I saw the rum 15 year sitting on the shelf in my video. Is that the one you mean? I must have missed the Ralfy video. Will go and have a look now. Edit: I was thinking of Springbank 15 not Glen Scotia. I saw the peated rum festival bottle in several locations around the country so still out there.

I think he meant the GlenScotia 15 yo 46% Ralphy gave it 92/100

@@cookieMonsterSincho I am sure they are both good.

In some ways it was clearer for me rewatching the video as it had gone a bit surreal after the fifth dram 😀

Ha yes

Oh great. They provide the bottles as do all the distilleries it seems. No drinking and driving in Scotland as I think the limit is just .04. Hope you have a great time.

Oh great. The Distilleries provided them but no harm in having a few on hand just in case. Definitely try the warehouse tasting. Fantastic

And we were saving half of the pour into driver bottles! It was a spectacular tasting and as light weight drinkers we really did have to sit an hour in the park after :-)

@@WhiskyMystery haha I forgot about your to-go bottles... That makes sense. I'd have to plan ahead or else I'd be spending the night in that park 😂

@@Matt-gf4gd At least in Campbeltown you are walking around the small town.

Yes

Hi DB. Looking at the website they may have changed the tour options since we were there. We didn’t tour of the distillery so the closest thing would be the dunnage tour I guess. We paid I think 50 pounds for this one.

@@WhiskyMystery 50 pounds is bit expensive for distillery tasting. You got a good value out of it considering lain spent quite a bit of time hosting and answering questions. I think Lagavulan warehouse tasting is be best in terms of verity and value. I was lucky to taste 51yo in addition to 8yo, 12yo, 16yo, 20yo, 34yo straight outta casks during Lagavulan warehouse tasting 2 year ago.

@@DB-eu6sr I think it depends on the business. Our Lagavulin tasting had about 40 people in it and four slightly rushed drams. Still enjoyable, but the Glen Scotia was well worth it. The drams at a bar would total close to $200 I would guess.

Thanks Jeff. This is their standard warehouse tasting which cost £30 per person and is described as including three drams.

Captain 3D, Apparently the ECBP bribe, I mean sharing, really helped out...or maybe it was a very slow tourism day...or maybe they knew your RU-vid channel exposure would be good for business. I can’t even find a bottle of Glen Scotia in my area, so I’ll have to keep an eye out for one whenever I travel.

I had not mentioned RU-vid and think they were genuinely enthusiastic to share on a quiet Friday. Maybe the ECBP helped 😀

Almost all provide them. Lagavulin had rubbish plastic ones though

@@WhiskyMystery awesome! I'm really thankful for this video as even though I always wanted to go there I didn't realize how cool it is. thanks!

@@flying_hussar3034 Fantastic. Dont for get to have a go on the swings after the tasting :-)

@@WhiskyMystery thats for sure! knowing my wife she will make me take kids there as soon as she spots the swings:)

@@flying_hussar3034 :-)

Very good points Reb. I am sure Iain is up for a discussion and it would be interesting to bring some standard bottle samples into the warehouse tasting to compare. I think for us whisky geeks all of your points are valid but maybe not for the general consumer. I have two Glen Scotia bottles here. The standard 15 year is much darker than the 19 year Single cask from the distillery and yes more orange. I presume the 15 has some sherry in the mix but not sure,

Ralfy liked the 15 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-m1Z0LAnsnuI.html

Yes I know Ralfy did. I couldn't believe it. I was even more surprised than his positive review of the awful Glenlivet 18. If you look down in the comments you will see that I talk about this. You are correct about the Ex-Sherry casks. The standard 15 YO has around 20% Ex-Sherry vatting. Interestingly, Loch Lomond produces a special kosher version of the 15 YO for sale in Israel and the US, which is a vatting of 100% Ex-Bourbon casks. What's interesting? I brought a bottle to England and I gave some to some Non-Jewish friends for comparison. Whoever maintains that they don't add E150a colouring, I can prove that they do! The colour of the kosher and standard versions were EXACTLY THE SAME !!!! Moreover, there wasn't much difference in taste which is what they were trying to achieve anyway. The kosher one was as close to the original as they could do. This is not, in my opinion, a good thing. The same sickly sweet boring generic taste. I am not sure if you aware of whisky reviewer called Rob who ahs a channel called The Spirit Safe. I find his tasting notes are always 100% spot on (at least in sync with mine....ha ha). He uses a laptop webcam and mic but its the contents, not the production which is so good. He only has a small following. Worth checking out. Also, my kosher whisky blog is "Reb Mordechai Reviews" although to my shame, I have not posted for a while even though I have a back log of review whiskies to review that remain in note form only. Most of my whisky time has been spent recently giving presentations and updating my Kosher Whisky List, (also found on my site) which is a PDF file which you can download for free. Why would this be of interest to the likes of you? Because I list the releases which are 100% free of any Ex-Sherry cask maturation. This can be useful to calibrate your whisky tasting skills.

@@WhiskyMystery I just booked the warehouse experience. I spoke to Rosieanne. She said she's willing to open up all the Ex-bourbon casks for us including the heavily peated and the 1989 one...yummy yummy. Can't wait. Thanks again for recommending this.

@@RebMordechaiReviews Fantastic. When are you going? I just realised that I read your Kilchoman 100% barley reviews sometime back. Just making the connection now.