Personally I don't give a monkeys about an age statement of the whisky is good on my palette. Yes age statements are preferable but it's not going to keep away from a damn fine dram . Great review . 👍🇬🇧
@@ChrisPBacon-mo9ln yeah , I know , the review turns up at 03.30 and I've just crawled out of bed . I'm not a pedant however , unless you're clearing up for your own education 👍🇬🇧
About the question about NAS vs. Age statement I would say that I prefer transparency, if its 5y, 6y, 8y who cares? Ardbeg release 5y wee beastie for 40€, Glen Scotia 8y for 60€ and for me its ok, they are saying on label: "its young, you can see, but good, we stand for it." Younger whiskies can beat 12+y with magic word "double oak" and pricey tag... NAS with the real purpose should be blending very young with decent high age, e.g. like compass box do. Otherwise you can bottle as NAS every low quality immature barrels to push cash flow (like japanesse did, after boom affect following sold out aged barrels)
You could once say if a dram was good, excellent, mediocre or awful. Mr. Lüning’s reactions and evaluations were invaluable. Now, on the contrary, everything is good 🤷🏼♂️ Whatever they review is fine and worthy….I guess this has become more a selling window (they have an e-commerce site) rather than a review channel….his son talks too much without saying anything interesting, most of the times 🤷🏼♂️
