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It's comforting to know that, should I ever go suicidal, I have more than enough single malts in the house to drink myself into oblivion.
What a
way to go, eh? Not to worry, though; I wouldn't want to leave this life just yet. There are just too many undiscovered single malts left in my collection - and sadly quite a few outside my collection as well.
Pretty soon after I started my quest for the perfect single malt, my old drinks cabinet
proved too confining for my quickly expanding collection. To give my bottles the room they deserve I took an old cabinet, tore off the doors and transformed it into
my private single malts cabinet.
My 'drinking collection' is distributed over 3 shelves, with room for 16 bottles each. These 48 open bottles are in various stages of emptiness, while
the malts in my 'Reserve Stock' are still undeflowered.
At an average drinking speed of less than three bottles a month, some bottles enjoy the hospitality of my shelves for more than a year.
So there you have it.
I told you I had a system, didn't I?
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The list changes after almost every new acquisition or tasting session, so check back here some time if you want to keep tabs on my progress.
I'm quite mad when it comes to single malts (hence the name of this site), and at some point I even stopped throwing out the bottles after I had finished them. Each empty bottle represents one step in my
voyage of discovery. The snapshot at the left shows the contents of my 'history' cabinet in December 2000. Connoisseurs may recognize some great malts like Ardbeg 17, Balvenie 21 Port, Macallan 10 100 Proof, Macallan 18 yrs and Lagavulin
1979 Double Matured.
Sweet memories indeed...
Dreams Most of the malts that score more than 80 points
end up on my top shelf. Many old favorites are replaced as soon as they're empty - finances and allround availability permitting, that is... Every now and then an expensive 'Special Occasion' bottle makes it to my top
shelf, but usually you won't find many malts here that cost more than 50.- Euro's. |
Drams The fact that some old favorites like Lagavulin
16 and Talisker 10 are steady residents on my top shelf makes it hard for other good bottles to reach it. These malts are not neccessarily the best malts money can buy, but they represent a lot of different malt
'styles'. There's a malt for every season and occasion on my middle shelf. |
Drinks These malts are not likely to be replaced any
time soon, although most of them still beat your average blended whisky with a stick. This makes them perfectly suited for 'Bad Nose Days'. My bottom shelf carries a combination of 'value' malts for serious sloshing
and 'high profile' malts that just don't meet my personal enjoyment standards. |
The Contents of my Malt Cabinet
on January 1, 2002
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Middle |
Bottom |
Aberlour A'bunadh |
Bowmore Cask Strength |
Arran (n.a.s.) |
So... which bottle goes where?
Well, there's a system to my malt madness. Move your mouse
across the pieces of 'paper' to find out which malts go where - and why.
Reserve Stock (Unopened bottles) |
