Building back up my Whisky Collection for 2016. After being on the fence for a number of years, I am going to go all-in and focus on learning more about what are my preferences in various Scotch Whisky. Basically, this means I'll be buying more bottles of Whisky...
2017 Plan
Next year will be even more exciting and I can build out my collection to a full twelve (12) bottles and maintain a one (1) year supply on-hand. A few bottles will remain my mainstay's and as soon as they are empty I'll replace them with the same, but other slots will remain open to explore new brands and hopefully find ones that I'll want to retain as a mainstay.
I'm particular excited about the JW Green as online they mention it's a mix of Caol Ila and Talisker with other blends. Sounds phenomenal. At same time, I'll also leave room for some bottles for special occasions and will likely start with a Macallan 18 Year Old and Johnnie Walker - Blue Label.
Consumption Rates
My overall Whisky consumption has held at around 175mL/week; equivalent to a six-pack of Lite Beer, fairly pedestrian numbers. This translates to:
My overall Whisky consumption has held at around 175mL/week; equivalent to a six-pack of Lite Beer, fairly pedestrian numbers. This translates to:
- Month -- 750mL (1 Bottle)
- Year -- 9 L (12 Bottles)
- First Half 2016 (80 / 20) -- 5 Blended ; 1 Single Malt
- Second Half 2016 ( 50 / 50) -- 3 Blended ; 3 Single Malt
The 80/20 Ratio turned out to be rather boring and left me room for only a single bottle of Single Malt (Glenfiddich 12). JW Black was pleasant and JW Red acceptable, but drinking the same thing for several months is uninteresting. I am hopeful a 50/50 Ratio is more palatable and not that much more in cost to add-in additional bottles of Single Malt.
Right away I picked up three (3) bottles:
Right away I picked up three (3) bottles:
- Johnnie Walker - Black
- Macallan 12 Year Old
- Laphroig 10 Year Old
This puts me closer to the 50/50 ratio that I will try it for the remainder of 2016 (I still have a little bit of Glenfiddich 12)
In a month or so I'll add another two (2) bottles:
- Lagavulin 16 Year Old
- Johnnie Walker -- Green
2017 Plan
Next year will be even more exciting and I can build out my collection to a full twelve (12) bottles and maintain a one (1) year supply on-hand. A few bottles will remain my mainstay's and as soon as they are empty I'll replace them with the same, but other slots will remain open to explore new brands and hopefully find ones that I'll want to retain as a mainstay.
- Blended
- Johnnie Walker - Red x 2 *
- Johnnie Walker - Black x 2 *
- Johnnie Walker - Green
- Monkey Shoulder
- Single Malt
- Macallan 12 *
- Highland Park 12 *
- Laphroig 10 *
- Oban 14
- Lagavulin 16
- Glenmorangie 10
- Special
- Macallan 18
- Johnnie Walker - Blue
I'm particular excited about the JW Green as online they mention it's a mix of Caol Ila and Talisker with other blends. Sounds phenomenal. At same time, I'll also leave room for some bottles for special occasions and will likely start with a Macallan 18 Year Old and Johnnie Walker - Blue Label.
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