[AnAmericanMother]

Glenkinchie is an Edinburgh whisky, very light, very smooth.

Lagavulin is all right if you like burnt iodine mixed with peat smoke . . . :-p

Nothing is more individual than taste in single malts. You could almost literally throw a rock from the jetty at Lagavulin and hit the wall at Laphroaig (actually, you'd need a catapult to get it over the headland in between, they're a bit less than a mile apart) but I love Laphroaig and can't stand Lagavulin, I'd use it for paint thinner before I'd drink it.

[VOA]

Lagavulin is all right if you like burnt iodine mixed with peat smoke . . . :-p

You are absolutely correct with that description.
I guess my inclusion of Lagavulin in my hypothetical "stranded on desert island"
case of single malts probably should have been:
two bottles for Lagavulin for occassional shock therapy and cleansing (actually
nuking!) the palate...
and split the rest of the case between Laphroig and Glenkinchie.

[Brad C.]

Lagavulin is all right if you like burnt iodine mixed with peat smoke . . . :-p

I for one think it is one of God's gifts to mankind, I don't think I have ever had a better single malt.