Whisky Shopping At Heathrow

When faced with the enormous selection of single malts on the shelves at the departure lounge of Heathrow's DFS, I literally went weak in the knees.

There were so many beautiful bottles and several limited editions specially bottled for Heathrow. So exciting!!! Each time the man is in London, he always buys it from their DFS rather than ours. These duty-free only bottlings are stirring up the whisky drinkers. There're so many to choose from- Bunnahabhain Darach Ur, Glenlivet Nàdurra 16 y.o cask strength, 2 choices of Dalmore 12y.o, The Snow Grouse (Famous Grouse) and a couple of others.

What I'm really looking for, are bottles of the Speyside Glenlivet Sparkling/Still to lug home. Exhibiting at Food & Hotel Asia last year might not have penetrated the Singapore market. The Moray company went into administration 3 months ago and has been rescued by Highland Spring. Essentially, that should mean that we should still see this brand of water being marketed. It is so so tasty. I've not had such lovely water. If you think Kingsdown is good, Glenlivet is 10 times better. I wonder if any of you hoteliers and restaurateurs is going to bring it into Singapore. (BIG SHOUTOUT here.)

We came away with 2 bottles of limited edition Bowmore 21 y.o distilled in 1988 (port cask matured) for ourselves, and a Talisker 57° North for the friends. The friends would love the powerful smokiness within the ash and orange flavors of this bottle of Talisker.

The man is going to go home to flip his cooking bible. He's chattering about checking out the food that he could do for dinner that would complement the intense aroma of the Bowmore 21 y.o (port cask), which is very different from the distillery's other 1985 21 y.o. (of which we couldn't keep our hands off and finished it.)

I can't wait to taste that Bowmore 21 y.o matured in port cask. I wonder if it's going to make me fall in love with it the way I'm so enchanted with the port matured Bowmore 16 y.o. I've been quite faithful to that bottle for some time now. There just isn't any other bottle that I'm quite liking as much.