[Closed] While were on whisky bargains

So how do you know this?

A recent one I saw was two bottles of Glenmorangie for £30 at Asda. I thought about it, then asked my brother if he wanted to go halves with me but by the time I had pontificated they had sold out.

Hmnn, might be popping in to Aldi on the way home...

Last week Tesco had 1 litre of Bells for £12.99, i bought 6.

Yes i would normally have single malt but this was dead cheap for everyday use..

1 litre of Bells for £12.99, i bought 6... cheap for everyday use

I'm surprised you can still type.

My local independant stockist[url= http://www.drambusters.com/ ]whisky galore[/url]

and this is legit

Glen Marnoch 12 year old (£12.99 in Aldi) is actually a 12 yr old Dalmore (£35 - £40 per bottle).

Aldi bought the whole vat cheap as it wasn't selling as Dalmore.

Although I'm happy to believe most things strangers tell me on the internetz, do you mind if I ask how you know? I promise I'm not a Dalmore / Aldi employee... If it is true, I'm in like Flynn.

Well, at £12.99, i'm prepared to to test it.
If it's any good then it doesn't really matter where it's from - good whisky is good whisky.

I am now the owner or 1 bottle of Glen Marnoch which I grabbed on the way home. It cost me £16.99 instead of the expected £12.99 which was a bit of a disappointment. I am now going to start the delicate sampling process and will feedback my results in a series of increasingly frazzled posts throughout the evening. 😉

'tis okay but tbh I prefer the bottle of 'morangie I have in the cupboard. Certainly not blown away but that could be either than I got a bog standard bottle of Aldi Scotch or I just am not discerning enough.

I'm sure I still have some 12year old Dalmore somewhere, might buy some Aldi stuff and do a comparison.

But you here these rumours all the time the otherone is Smokehead which is apparently single malt from an unidentified Islay distillery

It's just that Dalmore is one of my favourites, and still a bargain at £17... Might have a look tomorrow....

There are so many bargains out there - I bought a bottle of Jura Superstition today for about £21 from Asda, and a bottle of Talisker for about the same from Tesco last week. I'm stocking up you see...

if you can find it and don't mind trying something a bit different then see if you can get hold of Rittenhouse 100% proof straight Rye. It should be under £20 a bottle and is lovely - apparently got fantastic reviews too and hence is a bit of a pig to get hold of but well worth the effort. It seems to be stocked in random places - I found my bottle in a random wine-merchant in Fareham I think.

Oh - and try [url= http://www.masterofmalt.co.uk ]Master Of Malt[/url] website if you want to waste an evening being tempted by a huge variety of whiskey, rye, bourbon etc. I think they used to have a shop but have moved online and I couldn't recommend them highly enough - they do samples too in little wax sealed bottles - I've bought some as stocking fillers. Be warned it can be very tempting though...

(EDIT: realized that ^^ sounds like an advert but no affiliation etc, just a satisfied customer.)

Hi all, sorry comp died.

Right how do I know this, I work for a packaging company that supplies to Whyte & Mackay distillers who produce said Dalmore. The rep popped in to see them week a so back and was informed by W&M themselves about the little jem of info.

Got my dad a bottle and had no complaints from him (not much of a whisky drinker myself) he's sampled a fair few malts in his time! even went on a whisky holiday (a week of visiting various distilleries)

cheers

Cheers for the heads up then - will deffo pop in for a look!

After a few more glasses last night I can conclude that the Glen Marnoch is a very satisfying tipple, very smooth and flavoursome. Certainly a bargain for £17.

Just bought a bottle of the 12 year old, very nice and very rich in flavour (and colour).
There is also an 18 year old one, anyone tried that?

Top tip

my local co ops doing Jura for £17..... hic....

I can barely resist Jura at the normal price. I'll have to see if Scotmid have the same offer on.

Just bought a bottle of Glen Marnoch, its pretty good. Cheers!

Got a 12 yr old Highland Single Malt reduced from £18 to £13.50 today at Asda. Passed the taste test. Nice mellow Speyside style malt. A bargain whatever distillery it came from.

tesco do a 12 yo islay malt, and it's suspiciously like the bottle of bunnahabain I have... although I can imagine that different batches have the same label stuck on them...

The Lidl single malt us also worth a mention. Its the remaining stock of a defunct Speyside distillery. Usually about £14 a bottle.

I really like the aldi dalmore single malt

Since then I've tried jura origin which is a lot lighter but still a nice flavour

I've just got a bottle of jura superstition which I'm not sure about. It's peaty like the dalmore but somehow the flavour seems like it was added afterwards if that makes sense. Like a flavouring.

I'm new to this so I'm looking for more recommendations. So far I think I like peaty, warm and spicy flavours but don't know much about whisky at all so any advice on other flavours and distilleries is appreciated.

jools you a right piss head.