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IUtoSLU · Sep 2, 2010

MOHITO

2oz rum (10 Cane)
0.75oz lime juice (fresh squeezed)
0.25oz simple syrup
Spearmint leaves (from the garden) gently muddled

Pretty good, but not a drink that I would ooh and ahh over. I could see drinking this on the beach while relaxing, but drinking it in my air-conditioned apartment in the midwest is sort of killing it for me. Maybe I just need to move.

IUtoSLU · Sep 2, 2010

Sorry to make 3 posts in a row, but I just opened the Zaya and I wanted to review it.

It is definitely sweeter and more delicate than the Zacapa (my only reference point). Tons and tons of caramel and vanilla on the nose. Light and sweet at first, with molasses coming a little bit later here than in the Zacapa.

I'm no rum expert, but this is sweet and very good. I must say that I prefer Zacapa over Zaya. I think Zacapa is much drier and more complex, which is closer to what I desire, generally, in a spirit.

Edit: 2,000th post. Although unplanned, this was the perfect place for it.

IndianBoyz · Sep 2, 2010

IndianBoyz · Sep 2, 2010

I wants to try:

This rare combination of Indian and Scottish elements means Fusion has a really excellent mouthfeel and palate, combining oak, a hint of vanilla, fruit and the sublime peat.
“It is one of those which command a big mouthful, a chair with a headrest … and silence. You will chew for seemingly hours and never quite get to the bottom of its mystical complexity. It is massive whisky, but its genius is that you get the feeling that there is some almost invisible element keeping the malt together so the proportions are never less than perfect.” -- Tasting Notes from Jim Murray

The Whisky Bible 2010 by Jim Murray awards Amrut Fusion Single Malt Whisky the title of World’s Third Best Whisky.

Amrut Fusion gained 97 points in Murray’s most extensive collection of tasting notes ever published, with nearly 4,000 included this year.

Silver Medal 2010 San Francisco World Spirits Competition

The Independent Food & Drink - "India joins global roll-call of best distillers as Bangalore spirit wins third place"

Nose : Fresh oak,hint of vanilla,fruity and sublime peat.

Taste : Intially fruity and transcending to shear delicacy of fruity peaty notes.

Finish : Long and supremacy of peat-fruit combination balance out very well

Spinario · Sep 2, 2010

Originally Posted by RedLantern

You know it doesn't improve once it's bottled, right?

It's a tough question to answer. You'd need to find someone who drank it in 1938 and then again 25, 50 or 70 years later. I've had plenty of bottles that went bad from evaporation or became infused with bad tastes from years shoddy storage. My guess is that it was simply a better product and did not improve in the bottle.
On a positive note I had a 1890 Spring Hill Whiskey that was so smooth that my Father who had never drank anything but wine was able to easily drink it neat. A 1910 Pernod was incredible! It had absolutely nothing in common with the modern version. In general I found the late 19th and 20 century liquors to have been better crafted from better ingredients than most of their modern counterparts. Happily the growing "craft movement" is making great strides in that direction.
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gnatty8 · Sep 2, 2010

Originally Posted by IUtoSLU

Sorry to make 3 posts in a row, but I just opened the Zaya and I wanted to review it.

It is definitely sweeter and more delicate than the Zacapa (my only reference point). Tons and tons of caramel and vanilla on the nose. Light and sweet at first, with molasses coming a little bit later here than in the Zacapa.

I'm no rum expert, but this is sweet and very good. I must say that I prefer Zacapa over Zaya. I think Zacapa is much drier and more complex, which is closer to what I desire, generally, in a spirit.

Edit: 2,000th post. Although unplanned, this was the perfect place for it.

Zaya is my favorite rum by a mile.. Sea Wynde, a far second... Never tried Zacapa, will keep my eye open for it,

ama · Sep 2, 2010

Originally Posted by gnatty8

Zaya is my favorite rum by a mile.. Sea Wynde, a far second... Never tried Zacapa, will keep my eye open for it,

If those are your favorites you'll like Zacapa a lot. Its got a lot of the sweetness of Zaya tempered with some of the oakiness of Sea Wynde. Def. more similar to Zaya than Sea Wynde though.

ama · Sep 3, 2010

McCarthy's Single Malt - very nice three year old Islay style single malt. Gentle sweet smoke, black tea and just a hint of salt characterize this whiskey. One of the best examples of American craft distilling in my opinion.

cptjeff · Sep 3, 2010

Iced Jamacan Coffee. Amaretto instead of coffee liqueor, since I didn't have any of the latter. A much lighter tasting drink then I expected, but it's nice. The cream, rum, amaretto and coffee all come through, and the flavors all play nice. Not my favorite, but I'd make one again.

Gus · Sep 3, 2010

centenario reposado tequila

gnatty8 · Sep 3, 2010

Originally Posted by ama

If those are your favorites you'll like Zacapa a lot. Its got a lot of the sweetness of Zaya tempered with some of the oakiness of Sea Wynde. Def. more similar to Zaya than Sea Wynde though.

Cool, I will see if I can find this when I get back to U.S.

Originally Posted by ama

McCarthy's Single Malt - very nice three year old Islay style single malt. Gentle sweet smoke, black tea and just a hint of salt characterize this whiskey. One of the best examples of American craft distilling in my opinion.

Tell me more about this one, post picture of bottle if you can. Sounds very interesting.

ama · Sep 3, 2010

Originally Posted by gnatty8

Tell me more about this one, post picture of bottle if you can. Sounds very interesting.

No problem! Here is a blurb about the whiskey from Clear Creek Distillery, makers of McCarthy's:

McCarthy's Oregon Single Malt Whiskey is of the Islay tradition of Scotch whisky. Of well-known single malts from Scotland, it resembles the Lagavulin whisky. It is very peat-y. Made from peat-malted barley brought in from Scotland, our whiskey would be a single malt Scotch if Oregon were Scotland. Widmer Brothers ferments the peat-malted barley into a "wash" or unhopped beer. Using the unfinished wash allows us to get all the flavor and character of the malt when we distill. We distill in our Holstein pot stills using one pass distillation, but make a small "heads" cut and a fairly large "tails" cut and put about 4 liters of tails into the next still run. The proof at time of distillation is about 150 (75%). Then we reduce in proof and barrel-age the rough distillate in old sherry casks. All the Oregon Single Malt now spends some time in barrels made from air-dried Oregon Oak. The present bottling is only 3 years old but we think it is remarkably smooth for such a young whiskey. The result is a smooth, peat-y whiskey with a surprisingly clean finish. Production is very limited because what we put in the barrel doesn't come out for years.

McCarthy's Oregon Single Malt Whiskey received attention from its early days in the 1990's because American Single Malt was a novelty. In 2000, Gary Regan and Mardee Haidin Ragen noted in the Malt Advocate (March, 2000, p. 24) that in the world of American whiskey, "the times they are a-changing." Their article described how single malts have started to gain in popularity over the past decade and "full flavored American whiskey has made a comeback." At that time (2000) three artisanal distillers were making American Single Malts, but only McCarthy's had been released.

McCarthy's started to receive significant acclaim in 2004, when Jim Murray's Whiskey Bible gave McCarthy's its Best Small Batch Whiskey in the world award and a score of 94. That same year Michael Jackson put McCarthy's in his list of The Ten Best American Whiskeys, published in both the Men's Journal (December 2004) and The Malt Advocate ( First Quarter 2005). Consistently rave reviews have continued. In his 2006 edition of The Whiskey Bible, Jim Murray wrote, "McCarthy's has earned a place among the world's elite whiskeys." His 2008 edition of The Whiskey Bible gave McCarthy's a phenomenal score of 96.

And here is a picture of the bottle:

They were (and might still be, I don't know for sure) bottling it at both 42.5% and 40% ABV. If you can get the higher ABV version it is recommended.

fwiffo · Sep 3, 2010

I had a Macallan 15 yesterday...then a bunch of rye cocktails.

Today back to the pedestrian stuff...Jameson.

Roikins · Sep 3, 2010

Mmm, Clear Creek products.

MrMonkey · Sep 3, 2010

Glenfiddich, 12 year old straight... and very nice it is too!

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