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- Brandy Library
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25 N. Moore St.; 212-226-5545
Put a few single-malt enthusiasts in one room, and it can turn pretty quickly into what Ethan R. Kelley, the spirit sommelier at the Brandy Library in Tribeca, calls a “drunk’s Star Trek convention.” But if you don’t know an Islay from a Speyside, Ethan is ready to help you navigate the Library’s two-ring binder of more than 200 single malts organized by region—and find a dram to your liking. Try the “Scotch Novice,” a $22 flight covering six regions of the bonny country, before going on the $32 “Highland Hike.” The Scotch Trek crowd will find plenty to get worked up about in this charming haunt, where everything, from the waitresses’ dresses to the leather banquettes, is the color of a fine malt. There’s the 25-year-old Bunnahabhain, “a lesson in balance,” the rare 27-year-old Dallas Dhu, and the 21-year-old Benriach Authenticus, “a lesson in duality.” The truly devoted can sign on as members ($500 per year) and get a monogrammed spirit glass, a bottle on reserve, and 10 percent off every bill.
Best Bar to Get Schooled in Scotch
From the 2007 Best of New York issue of New York Magazine
Our mission this year: to hunt down not just the best but the best values in the eating, shopping, drinking, and general-consuming universe of New York. It’s quite the process, this, requiring eating and shopping and drinking (all in the name of research), followed by heated but civil discussion, and heated but less-civil discussion, until a winner emerges in each category.


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