Roy_
Registered User
The quality of a whisky in an open bottle is a 'big topic' on whisky fora. There are whiskies getting worse, but there are also whiskies getting better. I know people who start spread whisky of an emptying bottle in smaller bottles (or make a sample on opening a bottle for later), people who seal their open bottles, but also people with hundreds and hundreds bottles opened without 'special treatment'. I have some 20 or 25 bottles opened, some with not too much in it, others with hardly anything out. I don't really take notice much, but a bottle that I do know does not get better when it's opened, I will empty a bit sooner should I buy it again.
Caol Ila hard to find? Never noticed that. It is even fairly easy to buy an independent bottling (which are better than the 'official' releases), at least, here in the Netherlands.
Yesterday I emptied an independent single cask cask strength Lagavullin (the Whisky Exchange), I saved an Octomore 7.1 to open once that happened, so that one will be uncorked some time soon I also have a closed Laphroaig Quarter Cask (found it so cheap that I couldn't let stay in the shop) which I will only open after I finish the (considerably more expensive) Laphroaig Madeira cask.
Caol Ila hard to find? Never noticed that. It is even fairly easy to buy an independent bottling (which are better than the 'official' releases), at least, here in the Netherlands.
Yesterday I emptied an independent single cask cask strength Lagavullin (the Whisky Exchange), I saved an Octomore 7.1 to open once that happened, so that one will be uncorked some time soon I also have a closed Laphroaig Quarter Cask (found it so cheap that I couldn't let stay in the shop) which I will only open after I finish the (considerably more expensive) Laphroaig Madeira cask.