I know and like Ardmore as it has a slight smokey tang but relatively sweet, Benromach I could drink but it's not one of my favorites. It may be a few years for some of the mainland distilleries to bring out their peated versions as it's only been in the past 10 years or so that they've started peating. Talking to one or two it seems that they're trying to go for heavy peat to go up against the Islays. Try to get to a whisky fair or two and you can see whats on offer, if you look at the list you'll see that some of them are in there above Laphroaig so that shows you what they're trying to do.
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