Balvenie is a bit dear for what it provides, but people keep paying them, so why shouldn't they. Glenmorangie 18 I found for under 100 recently and is just impossibly smooth, a whole level away from Balvenie or Glenlivet or even Dalwhinnie 15 I daresay. Sometimes you're just in the mood for a bag of peat and smoke and that's when the Talisker comes out. Ardbeg may be a bit over the top.
Necro-bump. 35 days. Don't miss out.Two hundred and eighty three days until the next release of brigadoon breakfast tea, for those interested.