XJguy: fully appreciate the sentiment, but any single malt is enhanced by a splash of cold mineral (spring) water. It releases the flavour (as well as cutting, marginally, the alcohol).
mmalloy: I can only hope that you made the G and T with a squeeze of lime over the ice, the lime rubbed around the rim of the glass, and the wedge then left in the glass: one part Bombay Sapphire to three parts tonic.
Made myself a martini ce soir: Tanqueray gin, Noilly Prat vermouth, about 5:1. A tad sweet for some tastes. Nonetheless, in an evening which also involved Stolichnaya, Guinness, Cutthroat, and several other interesting liquid comestibles, it was rather nice.