The 50 Best Whiskeys in the World

[frazzled]

15. Now, I have no idea how to pronounce that whisky's name!

But it sounds absolutely wonderful.

It's good that the Yamazaki was a special gift (it wasn't the super expensive one, but too expensive for us to ever probably buy one again on our own).

As for Islays, I should mention that once we got a bottle of Laphroig because the Lagavulin was hard to get at the time and too expensive. Inside the carton there was a specially numbered tag that you could enter online to secure your very own one square meter plot (or maybe less than that, I don't recall the exact size) of peaty land on the Laphroig distillery property, with visiting privileges and even a map of where your piece of land was located and who owned the tiny plots around it. They were from all around the world. Very fun! They even mailed a fancy certificate of ownership. Maybe someday I'll go there and visit my teeny-tiny piece of Scottish bog.

ON EDIT: Due to the pandemic and Trump and the high anxiety that produces frequent sleepless nights, consumption of nightcaps has increased to an economically prohibitive state. (We're not going to waste the good stuff just because that creep is giving us insomnia), so we've taken to pouring little shots of a reasonably priced Calvados that Trader Joes sells. It does the trick, and it's a swell addition to a nice French apple tart recipe.