Mark Adams - A Maniacal Introduction

Aside my love of single malts, I am an operatic tenor, freelance singer and conductor, cantor, and a concerts promoter (classical music). I was always around music while growing up, but it was while living in Alaska (my high school years) that I decided to get serious about singing. I have worked some at logging, during which time I was living on a float-camp anchored to an unnamed island two miles away from the nearest settlement, a Native American Indian village called Hydaburg (pop. 200), which was a 'dry town' - no alcoholic beverages were to be sold or consumed.

I really should be grateful that I experienced my first 'dry town' before I knew anything at all about single malts.
Thankfully, the San Francisco Bay Area has some decent shops which cater to single malt consumption.

E-pistle #06/02 - Laphroaig & Malt Madness - An Epiphany

1.   Lagavulin 16yo 'White Horse' (43%, OB, 95 pts)
2.   Laphroaig 15yo (43%, OB, 93 pts)
3.   Port Ellen 18yo (53%, McG Prov, 93)
4.   Ardbeg 10yo (46%, OB, 92 pts)
5.   Highland Park 12yo old bottle (43%, OB, 92 pts)
6.   Ardbeg 29yo Ardbeggeddon (48.4%, OMC, 92 pts)
7.   Aberlour NAS a'bunadh (59.9%, OB, batch 6, 92 pts)
8.   Bowmore 17yo (43%, OB, 92 pts)
9.   Bruichladdich  15yo (46%, OB, new bottling, 91 pts)
10.  Longrow 10yo Bourbon Wood (46%, OB, 91 pts)

On 01/07/2002 Mark's 'Malt-O-Meter' said: 54 single malts sampled and scored.

1.   Aberlour 10yo (43%, OB, 87 pts)
2.   Aberlour a'bunadh nas (59.9%, OB, batch 6, 92 pts)
3.   Ardbeg 10yo (46%, OB, 92 pts)
4.   Ardbeg 17yo (43%, OB, 91 pts)
5.   Ardbeg 29yo Ardbeggeddon (48.4%, OMC, 92 pts)
6.   Auchentoshan 10yo (43.4%, OB, 73 pts)
7.   Balvenie 12yo Doublewood (43%, OB, 86 pts)
8.   Bowmore Legend nas (43%, OB, 87 pts)
9.   Bowmore 12yo (43%, OB, 89 pts)
10. Bowmore Darkest nas (43%, OB, 90 pts)
11. Bowmore 17yo (43%, OB, 92 pts)
12. Bowmore 21yo (43%, OB, 91 pts)
13. Bruichladdich new 10yo (46%, OB, 88 pts)
14. Bruichladdich new 15yo (46%, OB, 91 pts)
15. Bruichladdich new 20yo (46%, OB, 90 pts)
16. Bunnahabhain 12yo (43%, OB, 83 pts)
17. Caol Ila 14yo (43%, Cooper's C, 83 pts)
18. Cragganmore 12yo (43%, OB, 80 pts)
19. Dallas Dhu 19yo 1981 (43%, Sig, 82 pts)
20. Dalwhinnie 15yo (43%, OB, 80 pts)
21. Glen Deveron 5yo (43%, OB, 65 pts)
22. Glenfarclas 10yo (43%, OB, 80 pts)
23. Glenfarclas 12yo (43%, OB, 80 pts)
24. Glenfarclas 105 c/s nas (60%, OB, 87 pts)
25. Glenfiddich 12yo Sp Res (43%, OB, 80 pts)
26. Glenfiddich 15yo c/s (51%, OB, 86 pts)
27. Glenkinchie 10yo (43%, OB, 79 pts)
28. Glenlivet 12yo (43%, OB, 81 pts)
29. Glenmorangie 10yo (43%, OB, 81 pts)
30. Glenmorangie 12yo Port Wood (43%, OB, 83 pts)
31. Glenmorangie 18yo (43%, OB, 85 pts)
32. Glen Moray 12yo Chenin Blanc (43%, OB, 70 pts)
33. Glenrothes 12yo 1985 (43%, OB, 82 pts)
34. Glenrothes 12yo 1987 (43%, OB, 82 pts)
35. Highland Park 12yo old bottle (43%, OB, 92 pts)
36. Highland Park 20yo (43%, Cooper's C, 90 pts)
37. Lagavulin 8yo (43%, Dun Bheagan, 85 pts)
38. Lagavulin 16yo White Horse (43%, OB, 95 pts)
39. Laphroaig 10yo (43%, OB, 91 pts)
40. Laphroaig 15yo (43%, OB, 93 pts)
41. Lismore Single Highland Malt (43%, Lismore, 81 pts)
42. Longrow 10yo Bourbon Wood (46%, OB, 91 pts)
43. Macallan 12yo (43%, OB, 85 pts)
44. Macallan 18yo (43%, OB, 85 pts)
45. Macallan 11yo 1988 (50%, OMC, 90 pts)
46. Macallan 24yo 1977 (50%, OMC, 85 pts)
47. Mannochmore 18yo 1977 (60.1%, Cdnhd, 82 pts)
48. Oban 14yo (43%, OB,  80 pts)
49. Port Ellen 18yo (53%, McG Prov, 93)
50. Speyburn 10yo (43%, OB, 70 pts)
51. Speyside 10yo (43%, OB, 70 pts)
52. Springbank 10yo (46%, OB, 85 pts)
53. Springbank 21yo (46%, OB, 90 pts)
54. Talisker 10yo (45.8%, OB, 87 pts)

This is the list so far.
Check out the latest issue of Malt Maniacs for the freshest additions.