18 Oct
2025
18 Oct
'25
2:52 p.m.
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.