Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]informed speculation. not an islay lover myself. more speyside myself. but never had a bad cask strength compared to the standard version, though. Op 15-dec-05, om 19:40 heeft Mark Langer het volgende geschreven: > On 12/15/05, Philippe Orlent <philippe.orlent@pandora.be> wrote: >> >> The 16 year old is the standard version, the Distiller's edition is >> probably the selection of better barrels (the convertible version), >> and the cask strength is just more alcohol and concentrated taste. >> Consider it the same as the difference between pparfum and essence de >> parfum. >> >> Is this informed speculation, or based on actually trying these? >> I've had > examples of "special editions" of whiskies that were not as good as > the > standard version, so as often as not, these can be overpriced > marketing > plans. I was just curious to see if anyone on this list had > actually tasted > these versions and thought that they were an improvement over the > regular 16 > yr. old. > > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >