Thanks for your post which I found informative. I forgot single malts which I absolutely adore. You can taste the mist and the peat ...... and ... am I going mad ... you can feel the frost .....

As a further example on the Scotch debate, I could never bring myself to buy Johny Walker Blue Label simply to try, but those lovely BA people serve it in F and I've tried it a few times. It makes no sense to me. It's a blend. Of course it is and I knew it. But I was suprised by it's charecter-less qualities and harshness and I was really dissapointed. I don't "get it" at all and it made me wish that BA would spend a similar amount on a small-distiliary single malt.