Drink!

Once upon a time there was a lovely affordable quaffable and instantly friendly scotch by the name of Ardbeg. Unfortunately somebody spotted that it was much tastier than the price suggested and that's been nudging steadily upwards, so now you have to think twice before polishing a whole bottle off at one sitting while letting all your mates get a taste of how tasty it is.

Thankfully Oddbins have been leaving bottles of
Jon, Mark and Robbo's Easy Drinking Whisky
around on counters and inviting people to have a taste.

It does exactly what it says on the tin. I had a swig of the Rich Spicy one and the Smokey Peaty one and after my non-whiskey drinking girfriend confirmed that they were both delicious, I bought a bottle of each (scared to try the Smooth Sweeter one in case I felt obliged to make a set of them).

They're only 50cl bottles, so not as cheap as they seem, and as you can probably tell from the website, they may have gone a little bit too far in the cheesy cheery matey labelling. Each, 'authentically' roughly finished bottle comes complete with a sealing waxed stopper, and a 'note' tied with brown string to the neck with a "taste teller" (like the one at the bottom of this page).

However, it's bloody delicious.