Michael Jackson's Complete Guide to Single Malt Scotch: A Connoisseur’s Guide to the Single Malt Whiskies of Scotland

I gave this as a birthday gift. He loves it and always has his nose in this book!

Since we're retired now, we have nice leisure time in the evenings in the living room, in our chairs. My husband has always enjoyed Scotch, and so he'll have 2 or 3 fingers of Scotch of an evening with his church warden's pipe, which smells really nice. He is SO hard to buy for, so I got a wild hair, and got him a bottle of single malt Scotch Whiskey. (Only whiskey from Scotland has the 'e' - every other one is 'whisky.') Since that first bottle, I've found a website where I can browse differen…t single malt Scotches from different regions of Scotland. I can look at the area it's from, what distillery, what grain they malt, all kinds of information. When I looked at this book, I saw it has detailed descriptions of the taste of different Whiskeys, (which make no sense to me). So I bought this book. It really helps make sense of these taste descriptions, why a given Whiskey is so peaty, or smoky, and so forth. So when I ask him if this bottle or that bottle smells and tastes better, I can look it up, and see what characteristics that Scotch has. I can make more educated choices about what single malt Scotch Whiskey I want to get for him next. This is an excellent reference book, easy to read and use, and I highly recommend it to anyone who loves a good Scotch.

Bought this from a recommendation made by a friend. However, I do realize this is the rating of one guy who’s taste might not align with mine. it’s nice to have a baseline -flavor profile, nose, finish, color profile. The grade will be left to me.

best for every whiskylovers..

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I have a few different editions of this book. Great info and reference

Perfect gift for anyone interested in Scotch. Love the layout, descriptions, tasting notes. Photography is great and overall the book looks classy.

I've found this to be a great book to give you new targets to try as well as explaining which bottles are good value having a good tasting number while you check prices. Not everyone wants to pay $$$ for a bottle. Bought this for my son who is just dipping his toe into the world of whiskey

Very comprehensive, well written.

Nice book with great information