On Sat, 2025-10-18 at 13:16 +0000, Martin Bishop via cctalk wrote: > Islay is only in the Hebrides on questionable maps, they stopped at > Mull when I was a skuleboy, and Islay has many excellent distileries > - if you care for peaty malt. Cambelltown, at the foot of the > Kintyre peninsula, equally merits mention. And then there are all > the East Coast distileries Glen Morangie, Glenlivett and all its > chums clustered around the Spey - quite different from the West Coast > malts.
I enjoy Leapfrog but it's expensive so I settle for MacAllan. One of my friends gave me a bottle of MacAllan "thirties" — a reprise from the 1930s when there was a coal strike so they dried their malt with peat fires. Delicious. They only made it for one year. My late dear Russian friend Roman Glazman, a brilliant oceanographer and expert on turbulence, loved Scotch whiskey and didn't enjoy vodka. His dream vacation was a Scottish distillery tour. Then he developed colon cancer and died before he got to Scotland.
