18 Oct
2025
18 Oct
'25
4:06 p.m.
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
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From: Van Snyder via cctalk [mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org]
Sent: 18 October 2025 19:53
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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.