Quote Originally Posted by ChrisL View Post
Between the two I like the Balvenie quite a bit better. It's a more complex whisky and the vanilla notes of ex-bourbon along with the fruity sherry notes from the two different woods really work well together.

The Auchentoshan being triple distilled like an Irish whiskey does have a smoothness factor closer to a Jamison or Bushmills and I found it enjoyable, but I didn't find it as complex.

I would recommend you try both, but I would be interested to hear what your experience would be.


ChrisL
Thanks for your opinion, I'll spring for the Balvenie first! Although my novice experience with whisk(e)ys boils down to categorizing them into 'like' and 'do not like'. But even that has a tendency to change, for example, at first I found a gifted bottle of Laphroaig 10 unpalatable. Now I just have to be in the right mood for it.