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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Puff Daddy" data-source="post: 454216" data-attributes="member: 3">It is fun to explore this stuff. My own journey has been rather stop and go based on available funds, and has been mostly just the standard bottlings as the limited editions and extra aged stuff is simply too pricey. Shoot, just a good standard bottling is expensive. That's why it's so nice to find a really, really interesting dram in a standard bottling, like a Laphroig or an Aberlour. I've had good luck with the Islay distillers and truly love the standard bottlings from Bunnahabhain, Ardbeg and Laphroaig. Lagavulin is near $70 a bottle for the standard 16 year bottling so I hesitate to put it in the same category. I tried for some time to get ahold of a bottle of The Laddie Ten from Bruichladdich but the distributors simply didn't send any this way, according to the two big box booze stores I frequent. Now they've discontinued that offering and their bottlings are all over the place, with the Port Charlotte label and the various Bruichladdich varieties (same distiller, two brand names). I'm not even sure what you'd consider their standard bottling anymore. So, I've yet to try anything from that distillery. I've still not tried anything from Caol Ila either. Maybe it's time to finally try to hunt one of these down (for when I jump back down off the wagon last week of June).</blockquote>