Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/15

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Lagavulin supplies (WAS: OT: What about England)
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Thu Dec 15 10:48:52 2005
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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
>
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