I work in the high end of the booze biz & get good opportunities to purchase rare malts. Springbank is the distillery that I would miss the most were it to go silent. My all time fave Highland malt is the discontinued (since 1995)Balvenie Classic (the one that came in what look like an E&J brandy bottle). For pure in-your-face sauvage Islay charachter, you can't beat the younger Murray McDavid bottlings of Laphroaig. These bottlings, sometimes labeled as "Leapfrog", make the distillery bottlings seem tame & muted in comparison. The lack of chill filtration is the key to the superior quality of these Murray McDavid bottlings.
BTW, if any audiogonsters out there were to find a dusty bottle of the Balvenie Classic sitting forlornly on some retailer's shelf (I found one last year), I'd trade a fairly spectacuilar bottle of wine from my cellar for it.
BTW, if any audiogonsters out there were to find a dusty bottle of the Balvenie Classic sitting forlornly on some retailer's shelf (I found one last year), I'd trade a fairly spectacuilar bottle of wine from my cellar for it.