I follow Tempo cyclist from Tasmania and this blog entry combines both subjects
My latest favorite has been Rittenhouse Rye. Great value at about $26 a bottle. Great on its own, or makes a spectacular sazerac or old fashioned.
Lots of good ones in there, eh taylor, eagle rare, blantons, the list goes on and on.
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Try wineries! I’m out here in Cali and there are a few “Wine Tasting” wineries around here. I was with my wife and some friends one time and decided it would be funny if I tried to buy an old wine barrel from the winery… without hesitation, the wine steward said they coast about $50. and asked "How many was I thinking of buying!! 
A couple of years ago I rode the Highland Trail 550 race. During the starting weekend, which had the Monday as a public holiday, my wife went bike touring on Islay. With racing I wasn’t on my phone very much as not a lot of the route has reception. On the Monday we had a text conversation:
wife: How’s it going?
me: great.
wife: there’s a whisky festival going on here.
me: oh yes?
Anyway for completing the race she bought me a very nice Ardbeg Kelpie single malt 
We’ve still got about 1/4 of the bottle left.
I was just looking a reviving this topic. After a mexican riviera cruise in January (where I drank way too much whisky), I had given up drinking whisky until after race season, well there is going to be no race season this year so might as well indulge.
Oh yeah! My favorite!
A great friend of mine shared this bottle with me on my birthday weekend which was just a few days before my knee replacement surgery. Boss Hog is the best out there!
Colonel Taylor! Nice choice. Writing from Canada (Ontario) - both C.Taylor and Blanton’s extremely difficult to get hands on up here. Right now, there isn’t a single bottle in the entire province! Seriously.
On the Scotch side of things, I tend towards Speyside stuff. Recently Balvenie Double Wood and Caribbean Cask are my go-to’s as well as Aberlour.
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Lol, I was sure we were looking at the stitches CAUSED by the whisky.
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This thread needs a bump! What are you guys drinking?
I’ve very much a whiskey beginner but my untrained nose is enjoying a bottle of Eagle Rare. I’ll take any logical next steps?
Cant say I’ve had that but it looks to be pretty good stuff from Buffalo Trace. Maybe a Frey Ranch Single Barrel or 1792 might be a good choice?
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I like to peel the labels off and put them on my tool box. These are the last two I finished up (highly recommend either/both if you can find them):
That High West Dram in particular… just amazing.
I also have another slightly different Rye from them, not quite as good as the Limited Engagement, but still pretty damn good.
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I’m a big High West fan, good stuff.
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Lochranza Distillery, Isle of Arran. I didn’t imbibe as there was a long ways to go. But later that day…
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I’ll gladly slow down for Pappy!