Nearly every single malt in Scotland is distilled twice. Auchentoshan runs the spirit through three times, which is an Irish habit more than a Scottish one, and it is the whole reason this whisky is light, clean and soft instead of heavy and oily. American Oak is $39.99 for the 750ml, matured only in ex-bourbon barrels, which is where the vanilla and coconut come from. The last working Lowland distillery of the old guard, sitting at Clydebank on the edge of Glasgow. How to say the name, what Dark Oak and Virgin Oak and Blood Oak actually mean, how it sits against a Speyside and an Islay malt, and why this is the bottle to hand somebody who thinks they do not like single malt.