What's the BEST CHRISTMAS WHISKY?

[@owenlushadv]

The one being shared with family and friends is the best bottle over the holidays!!! Merry Christmas to all 🥃

[@ericcunliffe4112]

Merry Christmas Jeremy! My special pours are often single cask Glendroanchs, GD 15 and 18, Springbank cage bottles, 12 CS and 15, single cask sherried Ben Nevis from mid 90s and Octomore.

[@SippersSocialClub]

@@ericcunliffe4112 all sound pretty epic to me, cheers :)

[@KnickKiller]

Merry Christmas!

[@whiskyonthewestcoast]

Great video topic man! My 2020 Parliament has found its way into friends glasses this week, truly a perfect Christmas dram. No longer overaged and now overpriced it seems destined forn Christmas past like you said. Tamdhu 18 and Octomore are both great Christmas pours even if a tad overpriced. But the holidays are for sharing the best and indulging in something special. Also you were the first person I ever heard recommend Edradour 10 Unchillfiltred. I'm on my 3rd bottle. Great stuff. Cheers and Merry Christmas man 🥃🎄

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@@whiskyonthewestcoast Great value on those Edradours, I could drink em everyday, cheers!

[@agrainofmalt]

I've opened a few new and special bottles especially for Christmas. My Springbank 13yo Fresh Sherry cage bottle picked up at the distillery back in September. AnCnoc 24yo, and an old Imperial 19yo from The Ultimate I've had for awhile. Tomorrow I will likely opened the Thompson Bros. 1986 38yo Blended Scotch. As you say, special top shelf bottles, reaching for those cornerstone pours for the holidays! Merry Christmas dude! 🎅

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@@agrainofmalt sounds absolutely amazing, cheers!

[@ErikWaitWhiskyStudies]

I’ve been working on a couple Lagavulin distillery only bottles, the 2017 Jazz Festival and 2018 Feis Isle. Both are 54+ ABV. They’ve been open for a few years and I’m happy to report they’ve stayed fresh.

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@@ErikWaitWhiskyStudies those will probably be good 30 years from now lol Cheers my friend

[@ErikWaitWhiskyStudies]

@@SippersSocialClubnope, I’ll finish them by the end of the week. Besides, in 30 years I’ll be 88 years old or dead and California will probably be under water.

[@MrRobd9779]

Merry Christmas homie 💪🏻🥳

[@anklespanker]

I have a bottle of IB Teaninich 13 from Alistair Walker that's first fill PX that is my favorite Christmas drink. It's phenomenal.

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@@anklespanker interesting! I'll have to look that one up, cheers

[@thewhiskyenthusiast]

Fantastic list Jeremy and a great format, thanks! Wow that Kavalan bottle looks absolutely gorgeous, I hope the whisky is as good as well. Looking forward to your review of it. Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you and yours!

[@algonquinbriar5647]

Merry Christmas! Thank you.

[@WhiskyNeighbour]

Great walk through and terrific whisky as always. Cheers and Merry Christmas!

[@SippersSocialClub]

@@WhiskyNeighbour Merry Christmas!

[@ChoongAndy]

Merry Christmas, Jeremy

[@carlosc9127]

I ran out of mine, but for me my Glenfarclas 21 was my best bottle for Christmas. Merry Christmas to you.

[@robertzemko6590]

I have an open 2017 bottling of the Glenfarclas 15 and it is very "Christmas Cake" like, Also have 3 bottles of the 21, plan on opening one tomorrow, how does it compare to the 15 for you?

[@SippersSocialClub]

@@carlosc9127 The Glenfarclas 25 was always the best value 25yr. I wonder if it still is. I think I have one stashed away

[@robertzemko6590]

@@SippersSocialClub Not anymore at least here in Ontario, LCBO jacked up the price from $244 to $500 on the 25.

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@robertzemko6590 🤮 I think I paid under $200 for mine (but many years ago)

[@dondimonte8690]

My best Christmas pour was Macallan Ruby. Too bad they don't make it anymore.

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@@dondimonte8690 That was a beaut

[@lucienvisser5405]

Merry Christmas! Tonight i poured my self a Talisker 20 years sherry release. A banger of a whisky. Havent had this one in many years. I actually prefer the bourbon release from a year later which i find more fruity and Taliskerlike.

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@@lucienvisser5405 Are you talking the old cask strength ones?

[@thescotchhunter8770]

Nothing like old school highland park and Billy Walker Era Dronach

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@@thescotchhunter8770 aw yeah!

[@birgerandersson8342]

merry christmas man

[@teunvanderlinden1740]

For me a good Christmas whisky is an older - 20+ - whisky in a refill bourbon cask with champaign-notes! Merry Christmas from the Netherlands!

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@@teunvanderlinden1740 sounds great to me :)

[@boswineguy5461]

Nice, I definitely tend to go for the sherried pours, anything that makes me think of Christmas Cake or my favorite, Hermit Cookies.

[@Whiskey_BS]

Merry Christmas, Jeremy. I was drinking High West Prisoners Share this Christmas. It’s not a scotch but it is a delicious pour. Cheers 🥃

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@@Whiskey_BS nice, High West is making some solid whisky 🥃🥃

[@ironmantran]

Tali 18 came to LCBO in 2005 for 90 $CAD then up 98 $ for second wave . . . dont remember wave 3

[@SippersSocialClub]

@@ironmantran damn... And then never to be seen again?

[@ironmantran]

@@SippersSocialClub after the price went up to 100+ $CA, i stop buying it, since I already have a case (still have 3 from 2005 edition !)...then again, back then Tali21CS 58.8% bourbon cask was on sale for 150 $CA . . .

[@DarkSalmonz]

Kavalan Solist px

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@@DarkSalmonz great bottle!

[@DonnerPassWhisky]

Merry Christmas, Jeremy. This Christmas, I am enjoying a Single Cask Nation Glen Grant 20 first fill bourbon 58.9%. For Sherry, I am finishing a Tomatin PX distillery hand fill I got in 2022. It's 20 years old, 53.5%, and costs less than Glengoyne teapot, which is a NAS, and they do say it is young casks, so if you have someone going to Scotland it's one to ask them to bring back for you. Cheers

[@SippersSocialClub]

@@DonnerPassWhisky I've had a Tomatin distillery fill, but I think it was around 13 years old, but so so good! Cheers :)

[@eagle94haslanded]

I opened a johnny platinum that Ive been sitting on for about a decade when my dog passed a few weeks ago. Ill be enjoying a sip or two today.

[@SippersSocialClub]

@@eagle94haslanded sorry to hear about your dog, enjoy the scotch :)

[@eagle94haslanded]

@@SippersSocialClub Appreciate that, but it was her time.

[@jimidrammer4187]

Highland Park 25yo had that effect on me too but I can't pull the trigger on their prices these days. I have one sample left for the future. Still get the Talisker 18yo, HP18, and like the occasional Glengoyne 21yo. Other than that, daily drinkers stay mostly on Islay or something from Glenallachie. Macallan 18yo was a one and done @ $99 20 years ago and never looked back.

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@@jimidrammer4187 wow! Want vintages were you buying back then? Stuff from the 80s?

[@jimidrammer4187]

@@SippersSocialClub 1985

[@SLSAMG]

Glenmorangie Signet hands down. Doesn't break the bank either.

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@@SLSAMG nice! 🥃🥃

[@VazzVegas]

Going to be opening up a bottle of Ledaig 18 on New Year's in honor of our fallen but not forgotten friend, Foodquig.

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@@VazzVegas Well done 🥃🥃

[@1stMemberEver]

The old HP 18 was a really great malt, the 2024 version is only a shadow of it. And price, in 2014 I bought two bottles of HP 18, 64 € per piece, now it's 125 € per bottle.

[@SippersSocialClub]

@@1stMemberEver An unfortunate turn for HP...

[@WhiskyMystery]

mmm HP 30 is calling me from the stash. Oh Craigellachie 23 of course. Cheers.

[@SippersSocialClub]

@@WhiskyMystery Have a pour, it's fantastic. You're gonna see Craigellachie make an appearance on my whisky of the year video 😉 Cheers :)

[@WhiskyMystery]

@@SippersSocialClub We are spoilt

[@andrewbutler7681]

My birthday falls between Christmas and New Year, so I'll go for my 'birthday drams': Highland Park 1961 The Dragon and Ledaig 42 Dùsgadh...

[@SippersSocialClub]

@@andrewbutler7681 Damn! Very nice. Happy birthday :)

[@brookminx5837]

Macallan 25

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@@brookminx5837 heck yeah!

[@jasonj8246]

what's your favourite drink ?

[@SippersSocialClub]

@@jasonj8246 cocktail? Old Fashioned for sure :)

[@jasonj8246]

@@SippersSocialClub anything u recommend ?