Your personal favorite single malt scotch

[thescot]

I've checked my collection. They are:-
Glenkinchie 12 yo
Glenfarclas 12 yo
Balvenie Doublewood 12 yo
Glengoyne 10 yo
MacAllan Fine Oak 12 yo
The Dalmore 12 yo
The Singleton 12 yo
Glenfiddich 12 yo
The Glenlivet French Oak Reserve 15 yo
Glenmorangie Port Wood Finish
Jura 16 yo
Bowmore 12 yo
Smokehead (a cheeky new Islay single malt - the bottle says "not for the faint-hearted")
Ardbeg 10 yo
Laphraoig Quarter Cask
Highland Park 12 yo
Talisker (kidnapped ! RIP)

I've been frantically seraching MapQuest for directions to Muscat becasue it appears that Lochlan needs company to catalog--and sample?--his stock.

Can I get there without going through Albequerqie?

My new favorite is Lagavulin, but for less expensive but still pretty smoky, I also buy Highland Park.

[Lachlan09]

Actually, starting today, my whiskies will have to be untouched by me !

I have started a diet (the fat-burning soup diet) and alcohol is now off menu. Drats and double-drats !!

Maybe on my "banana" day, I can have some banana beer that someone posted on !

I'll fit into my kilt again or die ! Typical, just as Burger King is about to open their first branch in Oman for 8 years !

[MacBean]

I came back from Inverness with a suitcase full, after making the rounds. I'm no expert, yet find I have made friends with Bunnahabhain 18 yr (a third vote here). A gentler Islay but still a drink with character and likeability.

[WeaselMender]

I've been frantically seraching MapQuest for directions to Muscat becasue it appears that Lochlan needs company to catalog--and sample?--his stock.

Can I get there without going through Albequerqie?

My new favorite is Lagavulin, but for less expensive but still pretty smoky, I also buy Highland Park.

And If you do go there through Albuquerque without stopping by I shall do you an injury

[DryFly]

Back in august I stated a preference but...................... I recently acquired a bottle of Highland Park 18.

Oh, my.

(regains composure. heads for kitchen again..........)

[Luckey]

Aberlour double cask. If you like the bit of sweetness (which I do) it's very nice.

[Rx2000]

I find it hard to name a single favorite. My top choice among the smokier tipples is (for now) Laphroig Quarter Cask. However, I'm also very fond of Balvenie Single Barrel.
I was "window shopping" the Scotch aisle in a local liquor store yesterday. Saw that they now carry Yamazaki. I didn't notice the word "Scotch" on the label, they list it as a single malt liquor. At the risk of sounding heretical, I may pick up a bottle to try. Might even be good for brownie points at home, being that my bride's name is Sumiko

I'm usually a Lagavulin drinker, but I recently picked up a bottle of the Yamazaki 12 yr old. I must say, it definitely holds its own with any of the single malts in my collection.

I know wikipedia is a poor reference....but as to why it's not called scotch...

To be called Scotch whisky the spirit must conform to the standards of the Scotch Whisky Order of 1990 (UK),[3] which clarified the Scotch Whisky Act 1988,[4] and mandates that the spirit:

1. Must be distilled at a Scottish distillery from water and malted barley, to which only other whole grains may be added, have been processed at that distillery into a mash, converted to a fermentable substrate only by endogenous enzyme systems, and fermented only by the addition of yeast,
2. Must be distilled to an alcoholic strength of less than 94.8%[4] by volume so that it retains the flavour of the raw materials used in its production,
3. Must be matured in Scotland in oak casks for no less than three years and a day,
4. Must not contain any added substance other than water and caramel colouring, and
5. May not be bottled at less than 40% alcohol by volume.


ren

I find it hard to name a single favorite. My top choice among the smokier tipples is (for now) Laphroig Quarter Cask. However, I'm also very fond of Balvenie Single Barrel.
I was "window shopping" the Scotch aisle in a local liquor store yesterday. Saw that they now carry Yamazaki. I didn't notice the word "Scotch" on the label, they list it as a single malt liquor. At the risk of sounding heretical, I may pick up a bottle to try. Might even be good for brownie points at home, being that my bride's name is Sumiko

[ForresterModern]

I finally got around to organizing and cataloging my whisky collection, mostly so hat I do not buy another bottle of something I already have (I put the list in my iPhone so I have it next time I get the urge to buy a new bottle).

Aberfeldy 12y
Aberlour 10, 12, 16y
Aberlour single cask sherry cask (hand bottled by me on a facility tour)
Aberlour A'bunadh
Auchentoshan Select, Three wood, Select Old
Balvenie 15 single barrel
Balvenie Founders reserve 10
Benriach 12
Benromach
Bowmore cask strength
Bruichladdich 10
Bunnahabhain 12
Caol Ila 12
Clynelish 14
Cragganmore 12
Dalwhinnie 15
Edradour 10
Glenfarclas 12
Glenfiddich Special Reserve
Glenfiddich Caoran REserve
Glenfiddich Special Reserve 12
Glen Garioch 10
Glenkinchie 10
Glenlivet Master Distiller's Portfolio ( 12yr, French Oak Reserve 15, 18yr)
Glenlivet 12
Glenlivet French limousin oak 12
Glenlivet Nadurra 16
Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban
Glenmorangie Sherrywood cask
Glenmorangie Burgundy Wood Cask
Glenrothes 1991 17yr
Laphroaig 10
Macallan Fine Oak 10
Macallan 18
Blair Athol 12 (Provenance bottled single barrel)
Mortlach 11 (Provenance bottled single cask)
Scapa 14
Speyburn 10
Talisker 10
Tamdhu
Tobermory 10
Tomatin 12

Irish Whiskies:
Clontarf
Michael Collins
Midleton
Jameson
Redbreast
Knappogue

Welsh whiskey
Penderyn


I have been through the one bottle of Lagavulin I had as well as my Oban, and must restock those ASAP. I have several duplicate bottles of stuff I already have open, so my total comes out to right around 70 bottles. Should keep me happy for a few years.

I have a few other american bourbon whiskeys (I do live in Kentucky) but they are in a whole different class being made from corn mash rather than malted barley.

jeff

[Jack Daw]

Jeff, I have about 24 brands in about 30 bottles. Where do you put yours? I finally figured out to line them up on top of the kitchen cabinets.

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

Dalwhinnie 15 year old.