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Max Hauser
 
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Default An Oz Wine and a Malt

Some malt fans swear by that stuff (Caol Ila, "cowl eye-lah" in US
phoneticization), especially fans from Britain. Well respected.

There are some distinctive or unusual malts on the market in recent years.
One that I find a novelty is Aberlour's "a'bunadh." Came at cask strength
and NV or ND (no date). Such a rich spiced-maple aroma and balsam as to
remind me of a candied apple, as traditional in US: A tart green apple with
a light coat of cinnamon-flavored melted sugar (red). Also in general, some
finisher/bottlers have been promoting mutliple-wood specialty versions.
Macallan has a dark product recently with a red label (replacing the 15yr,
I'm told) with a rich hazelnut nose. None of these is as beneficial for
people with iodine deficiencies as something like Caol Ila. (But maybe for
people with wood deficiencies. I could go somewhere with that, urged almost
hypnotically by the drone of recent spam email, but I won't.)

Your health -- Max