Help please. Single Malt Whiskey recommendations?

I'd go for one good quality bottle. If he's a single malt drinker, he has probably done his own sampling.

The trick is to find out what his taste in malts is. There are such great differences between regions and individual distilleries' products that if you buy blind, you could end up giving even a dedicated malt drinker something he loathes.

So call his spouse or ask his colleagues or engage him in conversation and find out what he normally drinks -- both in terms of region (Highland, Lowland, Speyside, Islay) and the names (and ages, if available) of one or two individual malts. Given that information, you'll find superb advice here as to a premium bottle in your price range to warm the cockles of his professorial heart.

If you provide the name of your city or area, chances are good someone will even suggest the most likely stores in which to find the recommended choices.

cheers.

bill

If he is a single malt drinker - this could be a minefield - best to figure out what kind of malt he prefers. If you can't do that, then you can try to give him a good impress-the-crowd standby like a reserve 25 or 30y Macallan which would probably be received well by any single malt drinker even if they didn't prefer the Speyside taste.

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I would get a bottle of Aberlour A'Bunadh. If it turns out your professor is a cognac drinker, then your professor will still love the A'Bunadh. And in any case, the A'Bunadh is as impressive LOOKING as it is in top quality and sheer silky pleasure to taste. Plus, you can get it under $50 some places. You can't go wrong with it.

Those are great suggestions. I wouldn't want to go and spend a load of cash and buy something that he would detest.

I will try to glean some information off his colleagues about his preferences.

In the meantime, there is another professor that enjoys single malt from Glenmorangie, Glenturrent, and Aberfeldy and 12 or more years of age.

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How about Bushmills Malt 21 year old?

I've got some12 year old single malt Bushmills, which they don't seem to do anymore, as well as a bottle of their Millennium, which is 25 year old. That costs around UKP135, so may be above your budget.

I've also got a bottle of Jameson Master Selection 18 year old.

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