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Hi Drew,

Sorry to hear how you've been hit by this global economic downturn. I hope you're able to weather it and make a good comeback.

Clan MacGregor is an inexpensive supermarket Scotch. I bought it as a cooking whisky, but found it to be an adequate dram. Not the best, by any means, but adequate.

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S*it happens but goes away... :-) I found 'The Ileach' very good QPR! Anders

Seems like a couple of trips ago, we found a supermarket Islay that was pretty good. It wasn't one of your bigger chains, and we found a bottle at a less-than-pretty store in Northallerton (Yorkshire). As I remember, it might have been ASDA??

I can attest to that. Also the Dun Bheagan, Finlaggan and Smokehead, all young south Islays, often thought to be Lagavulins, that have been distributed in North America. I like these better than many older and much more expensive Islays. They are very energetic, in-your-face malts, with tons of peat, smoke and phenols.

I don't recommend the McClelland's Islay, a young Bowmore that doesn't excite my palate. But if you're a Bowmore fan, which I'm not, it might be worth looking for.

They don't have supermarket malts where I live, but if they did, I'd certainly be trying all the supermarket Islays. In fact, send me some and I'll happily share my opinion.

Cheers.

My "bargain" pic is White Horse.