I may also be repeating myself, having previously contributed to the thread and having a bad attack of deja vu when I first saw Steve's "new" thread (subsequently merged with the older one!)
Yes, I still like A-Bunadh, and no, I don't, on the whole, like the heavily peated ones. (Some reminiscent of operating theatres with all that carbolic!)
Have to make an exception for the Lagavulin 16-year old, as (on another lucky day!) we won a bottle while visiting a "ceilidh night" at the Lagavulin distillery some years ago: we didn't have the first ticket out of the raffle hat, but the lady who did had worked for the distillery so wasn't bothered about winning another bottle of whisky: she went for a piece of local pottery. Ours was the second ticket out, and guess what prize we chose?
And my third lucky win was the "Roll a £1 coin at the bottle" - a favourite game at ceilidhs as everyone thinks they are a crack shot and this will be easy: the coin nearest the bottle wins. Easy to raise £100 or more in a few minutes if you have a half-decent bottle to roll at: on this occasion it was Glenkinchie, from Pencaitland near Edinburgh: more than half-decent! And I won!
As for adding things to whisky: YES to water in moderation, no to anything else. It "releases the vapours" - if you go to any official whisky tasting, they will advise you first to try the whisky neat, then to add small amounts of water: you will get far more amazing flavours out of it than just drinking it neat all the time.It is not diluting it; it's bringing on a whole new experience!