[MM-MALTS-L] Still here

[Charles Maclean]

Love it, Peter!  Your wonderful description might apply to several  
whiskies I have
encountered recently.

Charlie
On 20 May 2008, at 08:55, Peter Wood wrote:

> Hello Unc
>
> As I swooned with delight at the thought of being trapped in the  
> ionosphere
> swirling around this magnetic lady of your imagination (I shall call  
> her
> Aurora) I lifted the first dram from a newly opened bottle of Duncan  
> Taylor
> NC2 Glen Elgin 16 years old. I immediately awarded it 3 Michelin  
> Stars. Or
> perhaps 4 Firestone Stars or even 5 Dunlop Stars for those of  
> Mackintyre
> descent.
>
> Many years ago I had a bottle of Cadenhead's Longmorn that reminded  
> me more
> of the discarded pneumatics used as weights on a silage pit than the
> product of a malt distillery. This Glen Elgin is so sulfurous the  
> Longmorn
> seems more a distant memory of the perfume and petrol from a Blower  
> Bentley
> drifting around a tight curve compared with the flapping remanants  
> of a
> smoking rubber screeched from the wheel rims of an overloaded Mack  
> logging
> truck lugging 40 tonnes of radiata pine down to the pulp mill.
>
> Have Glen Elgin done away with copper stills or is the NC2 range the  
> bottom
> of the barrel? Anybody else tried this stuff?
>
> Peter Wood
>
>
>
>
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