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ernie":c7udlapv said:
He went on about skye...so that seems a good start
Ah! That leaves an obvious and very special choice! Talisker.
That would resonate emotionally as well as being an excellent whisky in itself.
Only question left is how much to spend, but that is a personal choice.
The giving of such a gift always minds me of one event of my younger life. I had a Californian girlfriend once upon a time, whose father was American Navy. He had been dry for over twenty years, and one of his prized possessions was a bottle of twenty year old malt, given to him by his Scottish brother in law on the event of my girlfriend's birth. To wet the baby's head. Naturally, he never drunk it.
Roll on twenty years and this was now a forty year old malt, though twenty in the bottle.
His brother in law now produces a baby girl, and what would be a most special and appropriate gift? Yes, the prized bottle of malt.
So, they prepared to set off to visit the relations and make the gift of this whisky, which Kenny will be able to enjoy and genuinely wet the baby's head.
This is how it was supposed to go, but the night before leaving my girlfriend is distraught.
That bottle of forty year old whisky is now actually a mix of tea and such, blended together by her and her friends after they polished it off on her eighteenth birthday two years before! Total panic stations!
We rushed around looking for an old bottle of malt to replace the ditchwater, and settled on an eighteen year old my father had stashed near full. Job done, and all set for the uncorking.
I waited with baited breath for the phone call to confirm all had gone well on the event, and was surprised when she told me she had told them on their train journey rather than risk her uncle sussing, as he was quite the whisky man.
They ended up laughing about it and Kenny wet the baby's head with my dad's malt.
My dad enjoyed a bottle of 1/8th 18 year old malt mixed with a cheap blend at some point, and I never heard him mention it. Seems time to mention it to him!
