Anonymous
Post 07/21/2025 16:15     Subject: Good bottle of scotch recommendation
Anonymous wrote:Johnnie Walker Swing. It is smooth like velvet. The bottle rocks back and forth and it was Lyndon Johnson's preferred alcoholic beverage.

,"Complex and sophisticated with almost perfumed sweetness. Unquestionably soft and accessible, you are sure to notice the fanciful vanilla and sherry-cask wood notes wafting."


No no no. The only half decent scotch/whisky made outside of Scotland is chivas or monkey shoulder.
I’d look for a single malt, highlands, like macallan or glen morangie.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2025 15:25     Subject: Good bottle of scotch recommendation
Anonymous wrote:My husband, a Scotch lover, favors Balvenie. There are a bunch of different ages that would meet your price.


Talk to him about drinking and cancer https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/health/alcohol-surgeon-general-warning.html
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2025 15:15     Subject: Good bottle of scotch recommendation
My husband, a Scotch lover, favors Balvenie. There are a bunch of different ages that would meet your price.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2025 13:42     Subject: Good bottle of scotch recommendation
Bunnahabhain, Bruchladdich, and Laphroig are all Islays, and OP said not smoky.

OP, I'd get a bottle of Dalmore 15-year old. It's a Highland whisky, so very smooth and almost a bit sweet. You should be able to find it for $200 or less.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2025 13:35     Subject: Good bottle of scotch recommendation
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:$300 is not going to get a particularly good one.


You get great scotch for less than half. This PP doesn’t know anything.


+1

You can get two 150mls of Laphroaig for $100.



Yes, but OP specifically said they did NOT want anything peaty. Which knocks out most of the Islays, and definitely knocks out Laphroig. (Sadly.)
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2025 13:31     Subject: Good bottle of scotch recommendation
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You DO know that drinking is increasingly tied to cancer? Wtaf kind of person would be gifting alcohol at this point?


Going out in the sun is linked to cancer, gotta live a little. And honestly people who enjoy scotch like this individual are not pounding alcohol, they sip for taste.

Very little joy in life is gained from telling others to stop enjoying life’s small pleasures because they might die.

Thanks for the other recs I’ll look into them!


Drinking habitually is enough to do you in. This is like giving someone a pack of cigarettes - and it’s my business because like with lung cancer, my taxes and health insurance premiums are paying for all this.


Same for skin cancer. You should advocate for burkas.


I don’t think Burkas have any particular spf value - but there is increasing links between cancer and booze.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2025 13:31     Subject: Good bottle of scotch recommendation
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:$300 is not going to get a particularly good one.


You get great scotch for less than half. This PP doesn’t know anything.


+1

You can get two 150mls of Laphroaig for $100.

Anonymous
Post 07/21/2025 13:28     Subject: Good bottle of scotch recommendation
Anonymous wrote:$300 is not going to get a particularly good one.


You get great scotch for less than half. This PP doesn’t know anything.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2025 09:39     Subject: Good bottle of scotch recommendation
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You DO know that drinking is increasingly tied to cancer? Wtaf kind of person would be gifting alcohol at this point?


Going out in the sun is linked to cancer, gotta live a little. And honestly people who enjoy scotch like this individual are not pounding alcohol, they sip for taste.

Very little joy in life is gained from telling others to stop enjoying life’s small pleasures because they might die.

Thanks for the other recs I’ll look into them!


Drinking habitually is enough to do you in. This is like giving someone a pack of cigarettes - and it’s my business because like with lung cancer, my taxes and health insurance premiums are paying for all this.


Same for skin cancer. You should advocate for burkas.


Yes - i'd like to know the cancer rate in the tea-totaling burka wearing countries, actually.


I bet there are NGOs with grant money burning a hole in their pocket.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2025 09:12     Subject: Good bottle of scotch recommendation
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Johnnie Walker Swing. It is smooth like velvet. The bottle rocks back and forth and it was Lyndon Johnson's preferred alcoholic beverage.

,"Complex and sophisticated with almost perfumed sweetness. Unquestionably soft and accessible, you are sure to notice the fanciful vanilla and sherry-cask wood notes wafting."


Johnny Walker is trash.

Get him a single malt, not Islay. Bunnahabhain is great, so is great Bruichladdich. You don't need to break the bank.


Bunnahabhain isn’t a bad idea but technically it is Islay.

If some smoke is ok then Talisker 18 might be an option
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2025 09:12     Subject: Good bottle of scotch recommendation
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You DO know that drinking is increasingly tied to cancer? Wtaf kind of person would be gifting alcohol at this point?


Going out in the sun is linked to cancer, gotta live a little. And honestly people who enjoy scotch like this individual are not pounding alcohol, they sip for taste.

Very little joy in life is gained from telling others to stop enjoying life’s small pleasures because they might die.

Thanks for the other recs I’ll look into them!


Drinking habitually is enough to do you in. This is like giving someone a pack of cigarettes - and it’s my business because like with lung cancer, my taxes and health insurance premiums are paying for all this.


Same for skin cancer. You should advocate for burkas.


Yes - i'd like to know the cancer rate in the tea-totaling burka wearing countries, actually.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2025 09:09     Subject: Good bottle of scotch recommendation
$300 is not going to get a particularly good one.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2025 08:46     Subject: Good bottle of scotch recommendation
Anonymous wrote:Johnnie Walker Swing. It is smooth like velvet. The bottle rocks back and forth and it was Lyndon Johnson's preferred alcoholic beverage.

,"Complex and sophisticated with almost perfumed sweetness. Unquestionably soft and accessible, you are sure to notice the fanciful vanilla and sherry-cask wood notes wafting."


Johnny Walker is trash.

Get him a single malt, not Islay. Bunnahabhain is great, so is great Bruichladdich. You don't need to break the bank.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2025 06:20     Subject: Good bottle of scotch recommendation
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You DO know that drinking is increasingly tied to cancer? Wtaf kind of person would be gifting alcohol at this point?


Going out in the sun is linked to cancer, gotta live a little. And honestly people who enjoy scotch like this individual are not pounding alcohol, they sip for taste.

Very little joy in life is gained from telling others to stop enjoying life’s small pleasures because they might die.

Thanks for the other recs I’ll look into them!


Drinking habitually is enough to do you in. This is like giving someone a pack of cigarettes - and it’s my business because like with lung cancer, my taxes and health insurance premiums are paying for all this.


STFU
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2025 05:54     Subject: Good bottle of scotch recommendation
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You DO know that drinking is increasingly tied to cancer? Wtaf kind of person would be gifting alcohol at this point?


Going out in the sun is linked to cancer, gotta live a little. And honestly people who enjoy scotch like this individual are not pounding alcohol, they sip for taste.

Very little joy in life is gained from telling others to stop enjoying life’s small pleasures because they might die.

Thanks for the other recs I’ll look into them!


Drinking habitually is enough to do you in. This is like giving someone a pack of cigarettes - and it’s my business because like with lung cancer, my taxes and health insurance premiums are paying for all this.


Same for skin cancer. You should advocate for burkas.