Bobby D, Francis Ford Coppola, Colonel Kilgore and Tommy share a dram and some memories.

Do you remember Robert Duvall's stellar performance as Colonel Kilgore in Francis Ford Coppola's Classic movie, Apacolypse Now when he jumped out of an assault helicopter into a firey, smoke filled battle field and asked a medical corpsman attending to a dying grunt, "You smell that? Napalm son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. That gasoline smell. It smells like........VICTORY.". Well if you enjoy an explosive nose, you will love the Lagavulin 16 year old single malt, dram number 3 on the single malt whisky bucket list. It is the color of gasoline and just the appearance brings back fond memories of as a kid plastering your face up to the fuel nozzle as Dad pumps regular gasoline into the family Studebaker. Gunpowder, peat, smoke, and petroleum dominate this whisky uncut. With a splash of water the finish is on fire with a hot scorched earth effect. As Bobby D tears up when he said, "Son, someday this war is going to end!". Sadly, one day this bottle is going to be empty. But don't worry, like war, there will be plenty more in the future. Slainte, Tommy Maaltman