Spørgsmål til "Blackadder"

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19 years 4 months ago #2478 by MacLars
FC-Vin / cask.dk har stillet Blackadder til rådighed til første spørgsmålsrunde (og de har flere i baghånden som vi kan trække på senere, Signatory, Vintage Malt whisky Co (Finlaggan, Ileach, Coopers Choice mm) og Edradour som vi vil trække på senere)

Vi kan selvfølgelig ikke garantere at der kommer svar på alle spørgsmål, der er jo vise forretningshemmeligheder mv. som eksperterne ikke kan/vil svare på.

Blackadder
Den uden tvivl mest konsekvense uafhængige aftapper er Blackadder. Filosofien hos ejeren Robin Tucek (medforfatter til bogen The Malt Whisky File) er enkel og logisk; Helst whisky ved fuld fadstyrke, ingen chillfiltering, ingen farve. Altså kun det reneste whisky.
Blackadder har nu taget skridtet fuldt ud med deres nye tiltag RAW CASK. Her er kun træsplinter fjernet, mens andre segmenter stadig er i for at bibeholde alle smagsstoffer. Det er altså whisky med bundfald. I FC Vin er vi begejstrede for RAW CASK og er glade for at have importen af dem. Allerede nu kan vi fortælle at vi udvider med flere RAW CASK whisky'er snart.

Skriv dit spørgsmål, og om et stykke tid vil der bliver udvalgt en række spørgsmål som via FC Vin / cask.dk bliver sendt til Blackadder, svarene vil naturligvis blive lagt i denne tråd.

Det vil være en fordel hvis du stiller dit spørgsmål på engelsk.

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19 years 4 months ago #2493 by jones
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Questions for Robin T., Blackadder:

1. Now that distilleries are increasingly releasing single cask, cask strength limited edition product and are actively attempting to restrict independent access to their casks, how will the role of the independent bottler change in the future?

1a. Have you met with resistance and efforts to stop your releases?

1b. Some independents have already purchased distilleries to diversify their business. Does Blackadder have similar ambitions?

2. In your Raw Cask series, there always seems to be an equal amount of wood chippings in each bottle. Do you distribute this material equally after filling the bottles? Does all the material in the bottle stem from the original cask?

3. The label of your Raw Cask Port Ellen, distilled 3 November 1982 and bottled June 2004, features a huge, bright "1983." How does a mistake like that happen?

4. Most of your releases use the distillery's name, but some do not. Why?

Al J.

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19 years 4 months ago #2494 by caskdk
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Ang Blackadder

Til MacLars indlæg.

Det citat fra vores hjemmeside er desværre lidt for gammelt, pgra manglende opdatering fra vores side.
Vi har allerede nu udviet vores antal af forskellige Raw Cask aftapninger betydligt og har idag vel ca. 25 forskellige aftapninger på lager, dertil kommer Smoking Islay, på 55%.

Men til alle jer andre - minus Al, kom nu ud af busken og lad os få startet en god tradition og mulighed for at spørge direkte ved producenten, - hold jer ikke tilbage.

Claus FC Vin

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19 years 4 months ago #2495 by MacLars
Question:

I've seen many samples taken straight from the casks in the warehouses, and I have never encountered the sediments that appear in the "Raw Cask"-series. A couple of options that explains this could be:

1: Due to the fact that casks are not moved for ages the sediments have fallen to the bottom of the cask and therefor no sediments in samples.
2: During transportation of casks from the warehouses to bottling-plants the sediments are losened from their fixed position in the wood.
3: During botteling the sediments are scraped from the inside of casks

Any other explanations, or is one of the above theories correct?

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19 years 4 months ago #2503 by Square
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Jeg stiller lige spørgsmålet på dansk da jeg ikke er god til at formulere mig på engelsk:

- Hvordan foregår udvælgelsen af fade, køber I dem helt unge/friske, eller overtager i dem først når de er "modne"?
- I gennemsnit, hvor mange fade bliver afvist/solgt til blend pr. fad i vælger at aftappe som single-malt?

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19 years 4 months ago #2504 by MacChristensen
Jeg prøver på mit bedste skoleengelsk.... :wink:

I was woundering - do you have better relations to some destilleries than to others reg. purchase of whisky ?

How many samples do you usually go thru before selecting a barrel to buy ?

Slainte,
Jesper

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19 years 4 months ago #2531 by MacLars
Spørgsmålsrunden slutter mandag d.7/11 kl. 14.00, så du kan lige nå at komme med netop dit spørgsmål ;-)

MacLars

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19 years 4 months ago #2535 by MacNiels
You write on your website "Raw Cask - Whisky as it used to be."
Why not bottle all as Raw Cask, if this is the correct way to bottle (and injoy)?

Niels

Niels Ladefoged
Whiskynyt.dk

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19 years 3 months ago #2829 by MacLars
Så er svarene dukket op

1. Now that distilleries are increasingly releasing single cask, cask strength, limited edition product and are actively attempting to restrict independent access to their casks, how will the role of the independent bottler change in the future?


It will change but it is too early to say how much. However, it probably will not be for the better. The pity is that some of the bigger companies do not see the importatnce of the more specialist and individual bottlings to the total market. It is this diversity that helps make shops and books on whisky more interesting and helps to fuel demand across the board. We all need each other but sadly some people now in the whisky business do not see it this way.

1a. Have you met with resistance and efforts to stop your releases?


We don't get co-operation or help from everyone but Blackadder would not wish to be over critical. We have some good friends in the whisky business and we greatly value these friendships.

1b. Some independents have already purchased distilleries to diversify their business. Does Blackadder have similar ambitions?

Does someone want to give us five million pounds or so?

2. In your Raw Cask series, there always seems to be an equal amount of wood chippings in each bottle. Do you distribute this material equally after filling the bottles? Does all the material in the bottle stem from the original cask?

We try to share the whisky and sediments in as equal a way as possible between all the bottles.

3. The label of your Raw Cask Port Ellen, distilled 3 November 1982 and bottled June 2004, features a huge, bright "1983." How does a mistake like that happen?

Mistakes happen because they do. If someone had noticed the label said 1983 before it had been bottled and sold we would have changed the label.
Fortunately we put 1983 on a 1982 whisky label and not the other way round!

4. Most of your releases use the distillery's name, but some do not. Why?

Because we chose not to. We think it is more interesting and in that we we can get casks that we might otherwise not be able to bottle.

5. I've seen many samples taken straight from the casks in the warehouses, and I have never encountered the sediments that appear in the "Raw Cask"-series. A couple of options that explains this could be:


If you put a whole cask into a large glass bottle then you would.

6. How does selection of casks take place, do you buy them "young", or do you first get them when they are matured?


We buy casks of varying ages and at different stages of maturity. There is no set pattern of what we buy or would wish to buy.

7. How many casks on average gets rejected/resold pr. cask you bottle as single-malt?

Buying whisky is not like buying pick and mix sweeties in a sweetie shop.

8. I was wondering - do you have better relations to some destilleries than to others reg. purchase of whisky ?

Every company will have better relations with some companies than with other companies. This is perfectly normal.

9. How many samples do you usually go through before selecting a barrel to buy ?

Same answer as 7 above.

10. You write on your website "Raw Cask - Whisky as it used to be." Why not bottle all as Raw Cask, if this is the correct way to bottle (and injoy)?

We chose not to restrict our sales and marketing. However we have never
chill- or heavily filtered any whisky that Blackadder has bottled and we
have never coloured a single whisky. Nor will we ever. Except for A Drop of the Irish and a couple of low outturn casks every cask bottled by Blackadder is bottled as a single cask. That is how we chose to bottle whisky. Close on 70% of all whisky bottled under the Blackadder label is now Raw Cask. The other whiskies are mostly Smoking Islay, Blairfindy, Old Man of Hoy and Blackadder Legendary.

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19 years 3 months ago #2832 by Macdeffe
Dejlig at Blackadder tager sig tid til at svare på vores spørgsmål. Jeg håber de der kommer her på siden, med forbindelse til Blackadder vil videresende min tak og "appreciation"

MacDeffe

Self-Styled Whisky Connoisseur

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