I met my friend Ian McFarland (a good Scottish name!) at St. Stephan's Green today, and told him I'd started a Scotch blog--he was a supporter, and when I introduced him to Wishart's clusters, he immediately declared that he was a sweet smoke man. They had Glenmorangie at the bar, so I ordered it. I'd realized, seeing it at the bar (one of only about 5 single malts), that I'd probably chosen the wrong representative for the Sweet Smoke group (I chose Old Pulteney).
But as I drank it, I decided I may still be on track, because I don't find the smoke very pronounced in the Glenmorangie. (It was pleasant enough, but didn't have enough character for me.) For my exemplar, I'd also considered Oban (more famous), but it's much more expensive. Smokey or not, I prefer my Scotch a little drier.
It's good, I've got two friends who now know their clusters. I need to collect a person from each cluster, and we'll do some guest posts.
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