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Originally Posted by FurnaceFace
Overall thanks for this thread. I was at a party on the wekend and the host has more bottles than I've seen in a house. Given the number of people in the house it wasn't really easy to ask him about them and go through the different tastes so threads like this are good for ideas.
I'm in the less peaty, smooth tasting camp so there are a few I'll have to try. If we had a group interested in the Feb 24th festival that would be fun.
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If you like the less peaty stuff, there's a ton of variety out there for you. Single Malt Highland scotches are fairly abundant. Like other's have mentioned, the
Macallan offers a fairly nice range of scotches although they tend to be a bit more expensive than others I find.
Glenrothes is a good one to go with, they come in these random cardboard containers but they are very nice.
I'm into the peaty stuff a bit more and here's a few of my personal favourites:
- Bowmore 18 yr
- Caol Ila 18 yr
They aren't super cheap but that Caol Ila is incredible. It gives you the peatiness you look for in an islay but the smoothness of a highland...it's awesome.
Another one I just recently tried that I picked from a scotch tasting was a Cragganmore 12 yr old...it's a Speyside scotch so it has a bit more body to it than a highland but is still very good.
After all this, I feel like having a scotch right now.