Someone recently introduced me to a book, The Whiskey Classified that isolated different flavor groups in single malt scotch whiskeys.  It’s an interesting book, well worth the read.  One thing I discovered as I read it is that my palate prefers the flavors: Peat, Smoke, Medicinal, Tobacco.  I capitalize these as they are like proper names of personal friends of mine.  Fruity, Florally, Honey and Spice are all nice too (not to me), but when I get Medicinal it makes me feel better.

I haven’t tried every type of single malt out there but that is a life mission of mine.  So far my favorite “every day” scotches are as follows.

Lagavulin 16 year

Laphroaig 18 year

Ardbeg Corryvreckan

I will probably blog a lot on this topic.