# What's your favorite scotch?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-scotch/278181
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [December 5, 2004, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-scotch/278181 "2004-12-05T06:11:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@JCorre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JCorre)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2004, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-scotch/278181/1 "2004-12-05T06:11:27Z")
Mine is Macallan 12yr. Its a great scotch.
Not the ‘Michael Jordan’ of the scotch lineup but definitley a ‘Scottie Pippen’.
That’s all for now.
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### Author:  [@Fuji\_Kitakyusho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji_Kitakyusho)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2004, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-scotch/278181/2 "2004-12-05T06:13:41Z")
Lagavulin 16 yr.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2004, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-scotch/278181/3 "2004-12-05T06:16:35Z")
Depends on my mood.
Introspective - Talisker
Relaxing - Macallan Cask-strength
Default - Highland Park 18 year old
I also have an independent bottling of a 20 year old GlenLivet that makes watching the sunrise a rare delight. 😃
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### Author:  [@JCorre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JCorre)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2004, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-scotch/278181/4 "2004-12-05T06:17:10Z")
How much does it go for retail? Always looking for new talent…
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### Author:  [@Metacom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Metacom)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2004, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-scotch/278181/5 "2004-12-05T06:21:56Z")
Laphroaig 10. Roughly $60. Yum yum yum yum yum.
Only single-malt costing more then $40 that I’ve ever finished multiple bottles of. The rest I like, but not enough to overcome the thought of having to buy another bottle. 😃
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2004, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-scotch/278181/6 "2004-12-05T06:30:38Z")
“What’s your favorite …?” threads belong in [**In My Humble Opinion**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?f=12). I’ll move this for you.
**Cajun Man**
for the SDMB
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### Author:  [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2004, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-scotch/278181/7 "2004-12-05T06:33:08Z")
Definitely Billy Boyd… maybe Ewan McGregor as a close second.
What?
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### Author:  [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2004, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-scotch/278181/8 "2004-12-05T06:38:59Z")
MacAllan.
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### Author:  [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2004, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-scotch/278181/9 "2004-12-05T07:16:38Z")
I used to be a blend guy, but very recently, my Pop turned me onto Glenlivet.
Prices around here are actually pretty good, too. I better stock up for the impending apocalypse.
Tripler
I mean, who’d want to live in a post-holocaust world without a nightcap?
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### Author:  [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2004, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-scotch/278181/10 "2004-12-05T10:48:23Z")
Butter.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2004, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-scotch/278181/11 "2004-12-05T14:53:13Z")
> [@Metacom](#):
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> Laphroaig 10. Roughly $60. Yum yum yum yum yum.
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> Only single-malt costing more then $40 that I’ve ever finished multiple bottles of. The rest I like, but not enough to overcome the thought of having to buy another bottle. 😃
10-year-old Laphroaig (my favourite as well) goes for about $35/bottle at Trader Joe’s in California. I was shocked… _shocked!_ to find out that it’s closer to $60/bottle here in Washington. (And because of some very strange laws up here, you have to go to a state liquor store to buy it.)
I bought my mom and her husband a bottle of Johnny Walker Blue Label two Christmases in a row. At $160/bottle, they wanted to ‘save it for special occasions’. (Mom, I bought it for you to _drink!_) Well, her husband died las New Year’s Eve, and she still has the two bottles. I was really hoping she’s have opened one so that I could try some. (Her husband used to come home from work, and they’d relax with some scotch and water on the rocks. Since he died, she doesn’t drink alcohol.) I looked for JW Blue last year so that I could get them another bottle, but you can’t get it in Washington. It has to be on the state’s list, and it isn’t. Also, it can’t be sent to Arizona. The Duty Free shop is about five miles away from me, and I could get a bottle there for about US$130/bottle; but my financial situation isn’t such that I should be buying such things. (Besides, I rarely drink.)
I have a bottle of 15-year-old Laphroaig around here somewhere that I bought a few years ago in California. I’ll have to try it sometime.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2004, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-scotch/278181/12 "2004-12-05T14:54:27Z")
Oh – I drink Laphroaig neat. At mom’s over Thanksgiving, I tried Johnny Walker Red Label on the rocks with a splash.
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### Author:  [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2004, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-scotch/278181/13 "2004-12-05T17:30:12Z")
I don’t have much experience or a sophisticated palate, but I enjoy Glenfiddich (a friend had the bottle… I don’t recall how old it was), and I really like getting a bottle of Suntory 12. Not technically scotch, since it’s Japanese, but very good nonetheless.
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2004, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-scotch/278181/14 "2004-12-05T18:02:19Z")
Favorite: Lagavulin 16.
Close second: Laphroaig 15. IMO their 10 is unremarkable by comparison. The extra $15-ish a bottle is nothing compared to the improvement in flavor; it’s night and day.
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2004, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-scotch/278181/15 "2004-12-05T18:11:17Z")
I’m very partial to the Balvenie.
(Is that like when people ask you what operating systems you know and you say ‘Microsoft Windows’? I can’t help it if it’s popular and possibly overpopularized, I really like that stuff)
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2004, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-scotch/278181/16 "2004-12-05T19:12:49Z")
**AHunter3** , don’t apologize for having tastebuds. Balvenie is a very good single-malt. The DoubleWood, especially.
I have a single-malt for every mood, and for my wife’s moods as well. The scotch cabinet currently holds, in various states of depletion:
Glen Rothes 1989
Glenfarclas 10 year old
Highland Park 18 year old
McDuff 27 year old\*
Bowmore 17
Tomatin 12
Edradour 19\*
Glen Livet 22\*
Talisker 10
Macallan Cask Strength
Glen Goyne 17
Cragganmore 1984 (from the distillery, not for sale to the public)
Glenfiddich 12
Mortlach 12\*
Glenmorangie Port Wood 12
Linkwood 12\*
Highland Park 20\*
The starred bottles are all independent bottlings, and are worth seeking out.
😃
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### Author:  [@zephyrine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zephyrine)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2004, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-scotch/278181/17 "2004-12-05T19:15:49Z")
Glenfiddich
Laghroaig
Lagavulin
I haven’t been able to drink it since I was pregnant: it gives me instant heartburn now. Damn, I miss it!
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### Author:  [@Chad\_C.Mulligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_C.Mulligan)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2004, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-scotch/278181/18 "2004-12-05T19:25:46Z")
> [@JCorre](#):
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> Mine is Macallan 12yr. Its a great scotch.
>
> Not the ‘Michael Jordan’ of the scotch lineup but definitley a ‘Scottie Pippen’.
>
> That’s all for now.
Second the Glenmorangie - it has orangy notes that appeal.
When I feel like something more seaweedy, Laphroig fits the bill.
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### Author:  [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-scotch/278181/19 "2004-12-05T19:30:17Z")
I’m not a scotch fan, though hubby is. Glenfiddich 12 is his fave, and I’ve been known to put a bottle in his Christmas stocking a time or three; he also says Johnny Walker Black is surprisingly good for cheap stuff; it is his humble opinion that Laghroaig is like drinking liquified charcoal briquettes. He also wants to know when he can come hang out with **silenus**. 😃
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### Author:  [@caligynephobia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligynephobia)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2004, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-scotch/278181/20 "2004-12-05T19:37:10Z")
Lagavulin and Ardbeg.
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