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Next time you’re shamelessly picking up a trolley full of cheap Polish chocolate down at your local Lidl be sure to grab a bottle of Scotch at the same time, as connoisseurs say the chain is stocking an absolute classic of a single malt.
The tipple in question is a new 33-year-old Maxwell Single Malt Scotch Whisky the discount chain is selling for a not inconsiderable £39.99. However, whisky experts claim it’s a stonking brew which ought to be attracting prices approaching the £100 mark and is such a winner it should find itself a place among the racked bottles of spirit collectors.
Whisky expert Jim Murray scored the bottle at 95 out of 100, a score usually reserved for bottles selling at many multiples of the price of this Lidl booze, which has been sourced from an unnamed Scottish distillery. [The Grocer]
Lidl is awesome. I go there to stock up on Leffe Blonde and make the occasional impulse purchase of angle grinder, mig welder, motorised winch, portable work lights, power tools… I mean, if you were the head of a Baltic death squad, you’d be sorted.
Na it’s just a clever viral advertising campaign that I too fell for, the stuff tastes pretty odd to be honest.
Not what a single malt should taste like at all!
I believe Lidl is also the A-Teams go-to supplier…..
Didn’t they get similar rave reviews for a cheap vodka they sold. There’s a lidl between work and the station, may have to try it out.
I know Aldi got rave reviews for their ’1599 Oliver Cromwell Gin’. . . It is/was rather good. Not sure if they still stock it, but it’s definitely worth a go if you are partial to the odd Gin
This puppy:
http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/product_range/product_range_22900.htm
Looks super cheap, but is 50cl. . . it’s only let down
There was, I think, a lifehacker article about using carbon filters to make cheap vodka taste as good as premium stuff.
My Dad likes a whisky and ginger. Might have to get him a bottle of this for Christmas.
By the sound of it, this is not to be mixed with ginger. . . Bells’ll suffice for that!
All good points, I might still buy it him with strict instructions not to mix it. Or just keep it for myself, although the last few times I’ve got drunk on whisky I’ve felt like I’ve destroyed my stomach the next day.
If he’s adding something other than a dash of water, get him something else. A supposedly fine whisky like this (single malt that it is) deserves much better than to be bastardised by a mixer.
Although, if he is able to appreciate a whisky on it’s own, by all means get him one of these.
Or you could get him this http://goo.gl/FwFF6
I’m pretty sure you can mix that one with whisky.
I’m pretty sure the whisky would be compulsory.
She might be excellent good company for all you know Darrell
And she might be an absolute nightmare for all you know, what’s your point?
Ha, that you might not need the whisky after all!