[MM-MALTS-L] The Big Toast - malts-L's tribute to Michael Jackson

Thu Aug 30 21:15:57 CEST 2007

I am very sad that I never had the chance to meet Michael Jackson in real life... ,
i knew him only from 2 of his Books ("The Malt Whisky Conpanion" and "Scotland and its Whiskies") and from many Videos. 
Michael, was for me the Spiritual Companion into the World of Single Malts, I remember my whisky beginnings, the many nights where 
i read his Whisky Companion, all that information and history about Malts and Distilleries. 

I have in my mind his words from one of his interviews : "when I am abroad, at the evening I will drink a whisky, probably a Single Malt and probably it will be one from Islay". 
That'ss is exactly what I will do tonight Michael, I will raise a glass of Caol Ila 36yo 1966 and drink this dram to your Memory.

Michael, thank you for all you have done for me, (even if we never met), rest in peace... 

Konstantin
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dominiek Bouckaert (LWS) 
  To: MaltManiacs operated former 'MALT-L' Whisky List 
  Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 9:14 PM
  Subject: Re: [MM-MALTS-L] The Big Toast - malts-L's tribute to Michael Jackson

  I'll pay tribute to MJ with a Macallan 10yo 'Full Proof' (57%, OB, Giovinetti, bottled 1980's, 75cl), a great dram to honour a great man.

  Greetz,
  Dominiek

  Kraaijeveld A.R. schreef: 
Dear all

I feel it would be fitting for malts-L to have its own tribute to Michael Jackson. What I thought we could do is to have as many people as possible raising a glass to his memory. Let me know which dram you've chosen and I'll collate everything for a write-up. 

To kick things off, for me it had to be a Macallan. But I couldn't chose, so will be raising three glasses tonight: 

Macallan 1989 (Dewar Rattray)
Macallan 1987 (Signatory)
Macallan 21 y.o. (Scott's Selection)

Come on, let's make this a really big toast!
Lex

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-----Original Message-----
From: mm-malts-l-bounces at grsnet.net on behalf of Michel van Meersbergen
Sent: Thu 30/08/2007 18:24
To: MaltManiacs operated former 'MALT-L' Whisky List
Subject: Re: [MM-MALTS-L] CELP & seaweed

Hi Brian,

Just two things, and as a Dutchmen I have to do this... ;-)

The 'Fishky' is from Berlin, Germany and it's a Bruichladdich... Irony in
it's most perfect form...

Cheers!

Michel

op 30-08-2007 19:15 schreef professormalt at comcast.net op
professormalt at comcast.net:

  I am somewhat bemused by this, the longest thread so far in the fledgling
MALTS-L Mk..II.  I can attest to the integrity of the Van Wees clan and the
fact that they did not expect people to take any of this seriously. I guess
you have to understand Dutch humor a little bit.  The whole thing, the weed,
the "seaweed experience" the little lore on the label, its all a farce, or as
the Brits put it, a piss take on the whole trend to produce an "altered"
whisky.  

The last time I was in the shop they had a new one "Fishky Whisky" to
celebrate that most Dutch of all celebrations, the new Herring harvest.  A
perfectly good Bunna "finished" in a herring barrel, brilliant!

I thought they had somewhat cleverly gotten around the SWA, by not uttering
"Scotch Whisky" nor mentioning "Scotland" anywhere on the label "distilled and
bottled in the EU".  Does the SWA hold the cards to any appelation of "single
malt......whisky"?  To me, the most disreputable thing about the whole kit and
kaboodle is the price that these are pulling down at the auctions!

Sláinte,
Brian

-------------- Original message --------------
From: Paul Dejong <Paul_Dejong at telenet.be>
Hi Lex and all,

Celp indeed contains a fresh-water plant called elodia, but don,t go down the
path of a "conspiracy theory?
The whole thing started of more or less as a joke, and Van Wees had no idea
the thing would be so succesfull. The first batch was indeed labelled
"whisky?, but the SWA had their say about it, and they had to change it into
scottish spirit.

Expect it to taste like a young islay should, an islay that is maybe a little
"green? because of it,s youth. ;-)
And I,m sure they were not trying to hoodwink the customer! I think they saw
it as a fun way of riding the wave of the "finishes?!

My 2p,
Paul
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