Single Malt
Purchase Price: $48
Place of Purchase: Park Avenue Liquor - New York, NY
Rating: 8.4
It was a rainy, cold day in November when I strolled into Park Avenue Liquor with $100 to spend. Park Avenue Liquor is a connoisseur's stop--they have a lot of rare and obscure single malts from every distillery you can think of--vanished distilleries, mothballed distilleries, and maybe even some distilleries that only ever existed in legend. It's a real playground for the single malt buff, but it's not cheap. You can pretty much count the number of bottles going for under $50 on one hand and things don't top out until the $13,000 mark for a bottle of 50 year old Macallan in a Lalique decanter. So I traded my Benjamin for the Balblair 16 and Glencadam 15 for no other reason than each of them were about $50 each. Wow. If only every random decision I made turned out as well. Balblair 16 immediately became one of my favorite malts, it's got style, class, sweetness and legs that seem to go on for miles. Kind of like Katarina Witt but from a different European country! Well worth seeking and making your own.
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