I'm a fan of the peaty Islays. Laphroig 10 is my favorite. Just for grins I tried a Speyside, a Macallan 12, last weekend -- my first single malt way back when. This time around I found It so sweet I could barely finish it. (However, I manned up and choked it down.) I do like Balvenie, another Speyside. I'm fond of Highland Park, which is from some other island. Orechney? When I worked on the Dodge ad account we always had Highland Park at company parties. Back then our client was based in Highland Park ... Michigan.
Paul via phone > On Jan 5, 2016, at 7:20 PM, John Coyle <jco...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > > And I thought I was alone in not liking very peaty malts! > > John in Brisbane > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of John Francis > Sent: Wednesday, 6 January 2016 05:56 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> > Subject: Re: OT: A great use for good Scotch > >> On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 10:11:35AM -0800, Larry Colen wrote: >> >> >> Daniel J. Matyola wrote: >>> BLASPHEMY! >>> >>> There is only one use for single malt Scotch whisky, and that is to >>> be sipped slowly, neat or with a tiny splash of water. >> >> You have obviously never tried our homemade Lagavulin ice cream. > > > It's a mistake to assume there is a single thing - "single malt Scotch" - > that is uniformly > excellent across the entire spectrum. > > As Larry can attest, I've got a fair few excellent examples on my shelves. > Amongst those I've also got several bottles that I don't personally like, but > this is basically a > matter of style, not of quality. Even among the ones that fall into my > favourite taste bracket (the > lighter Speyside malts, for example, not the heavily peat-flavoured Islay > brands) there is a great > difference between, say, a bottle of Glenfiddich (which I no longer keep) and > the bottle of > Glenmorangie 1971 single-vintage we treated ourselves to as a house-warming > present 20 years ago > (and which still tastes wonderful). > > > On the other hand, I've also encountered a couple of examples over the years > where I felt that the > only real use of the liquid in question would be as paint stripper or drain > cleaner. And whereas > most of the objectionable qualities would probably be negated (or at least > masked) if they were used > as ingredients, I prefer to err on the safe side, and follow Julia Child's > maxim: If you wouldn't drink it, you shouldn't be cooking with it! > > > P.S. I'd be happy to provide an objective viewpoint on Larry's ice cream... > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
