Favorite single malt scotch

[Redleg]

My list of top 5 in no particular order:

1. Laphroaig (10 yrs)
2. Ardbeg (10 yrs)
3. Talisker (10 yrs)
4. Highland Park (12 yrs)
5. Macallan (12 years)

I have been wanting to get the Lagavulin (16 yrs) but it's too damned expensive. I'll get it when I receive tenure next year.

My tastes seem to run mainly with the Islay type malts but I like Highland Park as a good all-around scotch and Macallan when I want a heavily sherried scotch.

I am interested in your recommendations.

[GOPisEvil]

1. Any of the Macallan's are very good.

I like Oban as well.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. Macallan 18 for me

[LeftofU]

23. my favorite also

[Mr. McD]

3. Glen Ord 12 yr.

The Balvenie Doublewood 12 yr.
Macallan any age
Aberlour 15 yr
Old Plutney 12 yr
Tobermory 10 yr.

and others mostly Highlands or Speysides. Can't handle most Islay malts, too peaty.

[NV Whino]

4. Dalwhinnie

or Lagavulin. Glen Morangie rates up there, too--sherry wood finish.

And I probably spelled Dalwhinnie wrong again.

[Midlodemocrat]

13. My husband drinks Dalwhinnie. He really enjoys it.

Me. I drink wine in the box.

[NV Whino]

15. Please, you're talking to Napa Valley, here

Wine in a box! :puke:


:sarcasm: (There is actually some decent wine in a box.)

[Midlodemocrat]

18. LOL. Actually, for Christmas, we got some lovely wines

from the Silver Oak Winery. Supposed to be very, very good.

[NV Whino]

19. Whoa! Silver Oak?

I'm coming over.

On edit: Oh damn. You're in Virginia. Guess I'll have to wait until I'm next in Richmond.

[Midlodemocrat]

21. I know! I was really shocked myself.

We are trying to decide when/if to drink it.

[NV Whino]

25. What's the vintage?

You might want to give it a little time. Most NV wines these days are immediately drinkable, but wines such as Silver Oak get even better with a little age. Some people insist on storing them forever... but I choose to actually drink them at some point. On really good stuff that will benefit from age, I generally give it 10 years from vintage date. Just long enough to fully mature and not to long to go over the hill.

[Midlodemocrat]

26. 2000. It is a red wine, and I don't know a lot about reds

I told you, I drink wine from the box. :hide:

[NV Whino]

27. It would be a delight

to ddrink now, but as I mentioned above, I would hold it another 4 years. And when you open it, make sure you share it with someone you reeeeealy like.

[Midlodemocrat]

28. Well, as of today, I reeeaaaalllly like my husband!!!

Thanks for the advice.

:bounce:

[TK421]

5. Oban

[ChoralScholar]

29. I second that. We can't even get it in Arkansas. :(

[TK421]

32. It was the first single malt I ever tried. I hope you find it someday

:pals:

[Spider Jerusalem]

6. Lagavulin is very good.

Smoky. Intense. Deep. Complex. (I may have to have some later.)

Oban (14 y.o.) is quite nice, too. Not as full-on as the Lagavulin, but it's got more character than many of the other whiskies I've had. Seems to be a nice balance between the peatier Island malts and the Highland style.


Cragganmore (12 y.o.) is decent, too...very aromatic, and just a touch dry.

Most of my other favourites you've already listed.

[Mrs. Venation]

7. Macallan

Oh, man, I love that stuff.

[jpgray]

8. I like Lagavulin

Glenmorangie is nice too. Most snobs will tell you Laphroaig is too peaty, but who the fuck cares?

[swag]

9. Cardhu

[BigMcLargehuge]

10. Glenmorangie

[GoddessOfGuinness]

14. That's the only one I ever tried

I enjoyed it.

I was in Cincinnati, and went to a Scottish restaurant (NO, I didn't have haggis!). I was really impressed with their nice selection of Brit and Irish brews on tap. I told the bartender that if I lived there, I'd be a regular. So he gave me a free brew and a scotch to go with it.

I wish I lived there.

[William Bloode]

11. Scotch, whats that?

I'm 38 and i am pretty sure i've never tried the stuff. We tend to make our own whiskey around here. It is in fact an Scotch, Irish tradition going back to the 1790's.

[Spider Jerusalem]

12. You must be in Kentucky...

Those crazy Scots-Irish boozehounds who invented bourbon brought the tradition with 'em, y'know. Whisky-making goes back to the 1400's or earlier in Scotland. (They had to have SOMETHING to make haggis palatable.)

[William Bloode]

16. Not Kentucky, but not far.

I live on the Ten, Nc, Va border. I actually live very close to "Thunder road" or the old moonshiners hwy. It's a family tradition going back generations and all.

Haggis, whew! now thats a real mans dish. I can't hardly handle it myself lol!

[GirlinContempt]

34. Burbon doesn't compare

IMO

[Bassic]

37. You're right about that.

Bourbon is to sctoch as a Yaris is to a Ferrarri

[Beetwasher]

17. mmmmmmmmmmm Lagavulin mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Oh man, you don't know what your missing.

My best friend's a Brit who brought a couple of bottles back w/ him when he went home a few months ago. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[liberalitch]

20. Glen Livet 18

although.... i won't turn my nose up at a mccallan 12

[Deep13]

35. yep, also like Belverie Doublewood.

[qnr]

22. I like to experiment with single malts. I'm doing Aberlour right now n/t

[EstimatedProphet]

24. Laphroaig is really good stuff

Deanston is good too

[kwassa]

30. I am now sipping Caol Ila 12 years old, Islay single malt

Extremely peaty and smokey.

I am just learning. Like wine, it is a journey that can go on forever.

Ones I like so far, which is just about all that I've tried, are Macallan 12 and 15, Aberlour, Glenlivet 12, Balvinie, and others that I can't recall at the moment!

[eyepaddle]

31. Laphroaig 15 years

and Talisker.

I've never tried Ardbeg, but all the others you mention are wonderful. Have you tried Highland Park?

[GirlinContempt]

33. Probably Isle of Jura, (10)

Glenfiddich (18)
and....
Balblair (dunno the age)

[Bassic]

36. Macallan is the best in that list

Have you ever tried the Glenmorangie Port wood finish? Out of this world!