It happened to me like to so many others - being at a friend's place a few years back he asked if we would like to try some whisky from his little collection. We rejected at first, knowing whisky as something you'd mix with Coke - and we simply don't like Coke. He insisted and so - via our first Auchentoshan and Lagavulin - we stumbled into drinking, collecting and also travelling down the whisky-route!