/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Thinking of buying a bottle of glenfiddich 12-year to reward myself for getting a job

The only scotch I've had so far is Lauder's blended because it was cheap as hell, but I'm finally getting over Lauder's off-putting start-of-sip flavor that I think is bad copper despite that I found it comically bad when I started the bottle

So what I want to know is whether it's up to the meme hype and how much of a difference/is it worth it to go to the longer-aged bottlings

on a more cooking-related note, I started drinking regularly recently and I'm trying to familiarize myself with alcohol varieties and find good cocktail recipes, this weekend I'm thinking of seeing if the smallish liquor store near me has jager in fullsize bottles and sweet vermouth (one can only hope) so I can make negronis with jager instead of campari because I really like jager/gin

any input on that combination or any cocktails (preferably strong) that you guys would recommend?