best

Actually, it looks like the 16 YO is the one that has the high rating but I figure that is probably very expensive...

Will

The 16YO is around $80 in my part of the world (Houston, Texas area). The 12yo that I have seen around is a cask strength bottling and is rarely found around here and is actually much more expensive!

Perhaps I will see if there is a Laphroaig 10 YO in stock at the local store. It gets a 8.5 from Michael Jackson and a 9 from Jim Murray. That is not bad at all. I hope the price on this is not too outrageous.

Will

It's getting harder to find, at least around Milwaukee. Bought one last year for $60 (US dollars). It's a bit _too_ smokey and peatey for me...

Laphroaig is one of the single malts that people tend to love or hate. It is extremely distinctive and there tends to be little middle ground. To me, Lagavulin shares a tenuous connection to Laphroaig because they are both Islays and have the "Islay charm". Lagavulin is very rich, deep, smoky, peaty. Laphroaig is intense, peaty, phenolic. I have a friend who loves it, but describes the "Frog" as "a smell that reminds him of freshly opened tin of Band-Aids or a new vinyl shower curtain!"

It would be tough for me to decide between the two. Buy 'em both!

Laphroaig has good memory associations for me: In Prague, I drank wee dram or three with a Scottish guy.

He insisted on buying me a wee dram and I insisted back on buying him one in return, and around and around. Great time. Scottish are fun to hang out with.

Will

if you are interested in ratings of whisky, have a look at

where 4 of the best known producers of whisky have rated a couple of hundreed whiskies.

Cheers,

Tim Steward

William Anders> I just checked out the various ratings on

The major difference between the two is that Laphroaig is matured only in bourbon casks, hence the pale colour and Lagavulin matured in sherry caks, either in part or completely, hence the darker colour and sherry notes.

Cheers,

Tim Steward

Jeff Folloder wrote:

Hi Will

I did a comparison of ratings of standard bottlings age 10-12

(Not very well represented but I did it for myself...)

first column is Jim Murray's rating

2nd column is MAlt Matrix 3rd is Whisky Magazine 4th is JAckson 5th is average

Lagavulin 16y I didnt put in because it wasnt 10-12y and the 12y is not a standard bottling (Expensive cask strength)

My personal favourite is by far Ardbeg 10y...

Another favourite of mine is Springbank 100 proof 10y old, but thats not a standard as well

MacDeffe

"Tim Steward" skrev i melding news:1gvem1p.1o4vla31b64wliN% snipped-for-privacy@spidacom.co.uk...

Or, for a more extencive rating read, try this:

Check here for a serious lot of general info:

Enjoy!

Gunnar

Having drunk single malt whisky, and it's the only spirit I drink, for about

30 years, I have come to appreciate the beauty of cask strength whiskies. (I do have Japanese, Irish and Welsh single malt in the house, but never sampled the New Zealand yet.)

My personal preference is always to serve at room temperature, never with ice. I always pour neat enjoy a couple of small sips, then add a few drops of highland spring water, to bring down towards normal strength, and give a whole new whisky to taste.

I normally drink standard tap water, but my whisky I treat reverentially. As I pay on average about GBP 45 a bottle, it's too valuable to treat in a cavalier fashion. That's not to say that there are not plenty of good 40% ABV bottles around. I always have a few in the house for the less discerning palate.

Unfortunately since I gravitated towards cask strength, and also retired I can now no longer afford to keep a bottle of each distillery in the house. So eventually I will be forced to stock only my favourite 20 or so.

Roger

Road trip to Renko's house!

Amen! *Only* 20 or so!

Will