Talisker distillery

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just passing some buildings with a number of brands of whiskey on their wall and large vats behind i think it's a whiskey distillery or probably more truthfully a whiskey factory because it doesn't have any of the beauty of the Talisker distillery I visited many years ago at Corbost on the Isle of Skye past a shed that offers you Bingo then Aldi and straight on to some allotment gardens We're now passing some typical tenement buildings.

We've just pulled out of Dalmuir Station, nine miles from Glasgow Queen Street.

It serves an area of Clydebank, a place I knew quite well when I was working because my company had an office here.

Obviously, it's been a sobering week and we will be discussing, I guess, everything that flows off the horrible attack on an elected representative.

But it won't stop me... drinking, and I'm on a Talisker Scotch, so a Scotch from the Isle of Skye, which was given to me by my tech guy when I left.

He also gave me, which is up behind me, which I proudly mounted, a mounted iPhone 3.

Yeah.

What about you? What's your poison this week? Um, I'm actually, uh, I was going to have a whiskey, but I'm, I'm trying to be good.

So I'm sticking to my better side is this is my, my, my low alcohol, low sugar side is that I'm trying to have at the moment as I attempt to get something resembling a summer bod.

Um, But I do appreciate a Talisker Sky.

They're a very good peated whiskey, aren't they? It's a nice smoking.

I don't remember what the added element was.

But then the tour bag was quite a cool thing, too, because, I mean, just recently, because of the last Slack crew and A, we talked a bunch about Isle of Skye and Talisker, and this is the other distillery on Skye.

Yeah, right.

Yeah, and the two gentlemen that waited on us and kind of educated us were great, you know, very patient with us and helped us make some good selections, and it was a good chat.

You know, he was buying a remarkable quantity of Lagavulin.

Talisker, he was buying Little Mill, which made it a bit of a challenge when we were reviving the blend, you know, to try and get people to part with those stocks, but... you know, a nice problem to have.

We found lots of other things to do with the history of the company.

I mean, we have a variety of artefacts here.

and they're just basically putting the same price across the board.

And when you have the spread of different prices before the First World War and then continuing after, the most expensive distillers are the distillers that you still see nowadays.

Talisker, Glen Grant, Glenlivet, Laphroaig, most of the Islay distillers, those are the very, very, very expensive new mates.

The less expensive new makes are principally lowland distilleries and Campbelltown distilleries.

Came down in a storm.

The tree was a sapling the same year the Talisker distillery opened.

Nice.

And a good friend of ours, Rob, turned it into a table.

I have tried all three, but I do own all three is the point.

My third will be this 25-year-old Talisker.

That's a great bottling too.

25-year-old Talisker, it's just the right amount of-

Mm

... all what you want in a bottle, in my opinion.

Wow.

Which was sort of like Yamazaki's Talisker.

Mm.

Oh, boy.

Yeah.

Um, I think that's the, the holy grail for me, just, just out of my interest in kind of polar exploration and, and, and whiskey, uh, kind of comes together in a way that can't be beat.

Um, but more accessible, I guess, not, really not accessible, but more realistic, I guess, would be, um, you know, I, I have a strong love for Talisker, and I was curious about-

Yeah