The Supreme Chivas (Chivas Regal 12 Year Old)

Member Name: BarryM

Product:	Chivas Regal 12 Year Old
Date:	28/07/01 (302 review reads)
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Advantages: Smooth taste, Good times, Superior quality

Disadvantages: None

"Chivas Regal. When you know." So, states the advertising blurb of The Chivas Brothers, who have been manufacturing Chivas Regal, which is a 12-year aged scotch whisky, in Aberdeen since 1836. And thank God I know!
This is surely one of the more classy widely available scotches on the market today.
I'll never forget my first taste of Chivas. I developed a taste for whisky at a very early age and by 16 was quenching my thirst for the beautiful liquid in many of Dublin's favourite watering holes. It was my Father, however, who noticed that it was mainly whisky of the cheap, brash, in your face variety that my untrained palette had begun to sample.
Beckoning me into the living room one fine, summers day he deftly poured me a glass of the fine liquid. Thrusting it into my hand with a look of knowing expectation on his face, my Father was opening my young eyes. I tentatively sipped the old scotch and a smile appeared on my face. He simply nodded and walked away. I was hooked.
Chivas tastes extremely smooth with a honeyed richness. As a scotch it is round and full-bodied with a long lingering finish.
In my opinion, it is best to savour the taste in all its "neat" glory. A glass of Chivas with a couple of ice-cubes, however, also goes down a treat.
As you work your way through a bottle of Chivas, you obtain a warm, satisfying glow, safe in the knowledge that your belly is being lined with a whisky of a truly superior quality. Enjoy.

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