Firstly, I'd like to apologize for writing in English... I don't speak German at all. 😅 I hope you all don't mind.
My name is Daniel and I'm in mid 30s. I live and work in Warsaw, Poland.
I've been passively using this forum for some time, using auto translate in a browser. Mainly, I was focusing on malternatives as scotch is incredibly expensive for what it is currently, so natural way out for me was rum and then cognac, armagnac and other grape spirits. My experience with spirits is rather modest - about 2-3 years of conscious tasting, firstly scotch, then rum and now I'm more focusing on a grape spirits. To be more precise, around 200 of different bottles tasted at least once. Generally, I like distinctive flavors, like peat in bourbon matured whiskies, esters in rums and intense fruitiness mixed with rancio in yaks. It's oversimplified, but it shows my general preference. Oh, I forget to add - I love daiquiri on a overproof high ester rum. 🤤
Couple of days ago, I decided to contact @StyrianSpirit if he's able to sample couple of amazing bottles he has. Today, I received samples and I'd like to thank him one more time. :) I'll try to make some notes and my impressions for each received sample and contribute at least this way to the forum.
You may check my accounts at WB and rum-x, nickname: machlo
"Verfallen wir nicht in den Fehler, bei jedem Andersmeinenden entweder an seinem Verstand oder an seinem guten Willen zu zweifeln." (Otto von Bismarck)
thank you for your introduction and a warm welcome to our forum!
I also think that posting in English is the best option, because the translations into German sometimes bring very "strange" results.
You are also in good company here with those who are now (not least because of the ever crazier whisky prices) also looking at R(h)um, Cognac and/or Armagnac. And as you so rightly write -- every spirit has its own special and distinctive characteristics.
You bring another "outside perspective" and a little more "international flair" to our forum. As I know from some conversations and from other online forums and channels, there are many online whisky shops that are now also popular in the German-speaking world and the "Armagnac and Cognac scene" is also growing. In any case, I am looking forward to your tasting notes on the individual spirits as well as to some hints about the "Polish spirit world"!