Interestingly the dependably low price single malt in the UK is Laphroig, I guess it does not suit the mass market pallete : VG*
However, one caveat is to beware of the "bargain" single malts with no age statement - cheap but indifferent, doubtless young whisky and I could believe somewhat feinty The pricing is mostly gouging and what the market will bear : these days Lagavullin is always a fancy price in the UK Martin -----Original Message----- From: Van Snyder via cctalk [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 18 October 2025 19:53 To: [email protected] Cc: Van Snyder <[email protected]> Subject: [cctalk] Re: Waaaay OT: Re: Re: Classic computing - earliest years 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.
