I’m excited to try them. Know next to nothing about them other than they evidently have won lots of awards. Daughter lives in Brooklyn and brought that sampler home for me.
I’ll be honest, I’ve rarely had any scotch or bourbon 18 years or older that I thought was demonstrably better than say 12 year. There’s only so much character a liquid can take from wood before it starts to get “woody”. It’s absolutely not worth the money to me buy age. Rare doesn’t always mean...
Sauron can take forms. My guess is Adar could be Sauron. If the stranger is Gandolf, they’ve seriously gone off book, since he wasn’t present until much later. I’m enjoying this, but it’s been a slow burn. Hope it speeds up some now.