Scotch is classified by regions where they are produced. The official list of regions is established by the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) and has changed over time. e.g. Speyside was part of Highlands but is now a separate region; Campbeltown has been in and out of the list. Islands is considered a separate region by many, but SWA considers it part of the Highlands.

Blended: The average blended whisky is 60%-85% grain whisky.
Bells, Dewar's, Johnnie Walker, Cutty Sark, J&B, The Famous Grouse, Chivas Regal, pinch and others. Dewar's in the highlands, basically invented the modern blended whisky.

Single Malt: (number of distilleries)

• Highland: (35) They are generally aromatic, smooth and medium bodied, with palates that range from lushly complex to floral delicacy. The subregions of the Highlands include:
  - North, East and West Highlands - Dalmore, Dalwhinnie, Oban, Glen Ord, Glenmorangie, Glengoyne, Clynelish and others.
  - The Orkney Isles - Highland Park
  - The Western Islands (Arran, Jura, Mull, and Skye) - Talisker, Arran.
• Speyside (48) - (Region in Northern Highlands, east of Inverness). Stylistically, Speysides vary from the light, soft, floral nature of whiskies like Knockando and Cardhu to weighty, more complex and heavily sherried malts such as Mortlach and The Macallan. For many aficionados, Speyside is the whisky region. It is to malt, as Cognac is to brandy.
  Others: Balvenie, Cardhu, Glenfiddich, The Glenlivet, The Macallan, Cragganmore, Singleton of Auchroisk, Aberlour and others.
• Islay (8) is an island off the west coast. Traditional Islay malt whiskies are intensely smoky and pungent in character with a distinctive iodine or medicinal tang that is said to come from sea salt permeating the local peat that is used to dry the barley malt.
  Lagavulin
• Campbeltown (3) is a port located on the tip of the Kintyre Peninsula on the southwest coast that has its own distinctive spicy and salt-tinged malt whiskies. Once the 'whisky capital' of Scotland, with no fewer than 21 working distilleries during the 1880s.
  Springbank remains a classic malt with a worldwide reputation for excellence.
• The Lowlands (3) encompass the entire Scottish mainland south of the Highlands except the Kintyre Peninsula where Campbeltown is located. Lowland malt whiskies are light bodied, relatively sweet, and delicate.

Links:
Scotch Whisky Association - Map of Distilleries
Whisky Regions
ScotlandWhisky.com Map of Scotch Whisky distilleries, whisky tours
Scotch Whisky Facts, Scotch Whisky Ratings and Scotch Whisky Reviews at tastings.com
Scotch whisky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Whisky Ratings & Reviews For Peat Sake!

98 wilson & morgan caol ila 15 year old
    cask strength (1990)
95 talisker distiller's edition
94 glenmorangie 15 years old sauternes wood finish
91 talisker 25 year old
91 lagavulin distiller's edition 15 years old
90 The macallan fine oak 18 years old
90 glenfiddich caoran reserve 12 years old
90 aberlour a'bunadh
88 the macallan 18 years old
87 glengoyne 17 years old
87 lagavulin 12 year old natural cask strength
87 glenkinchie distillers edition
87 the glenlivet 16 year old nadurra
86 the macallan 10 years old cask strength
86 the macallan 12 years old
86 glengoyne 15 years old scottish oak wood finish

85 the macallan fine oak 15 years old
85 the glenlivet 21 years old
83 cragganmore 1991 distillers edition
82 the macallan cask strength
82 the glenlivet 12 years old
82 glenfiddich ancient reserve 18 years old
80 arran malt cru bourgogne finish
80 the glenlivet 18 years old
80 oban 14 year old
79 cragganmore 12 years old
78 dalwhinnie 15 years old
78 glenkinchie 10 years old
77 the glenlivet nadurra 16 year old (06 2006)
76 cragganmore 10 year old cask strength
72 glenfiddich gran reserva 21 years old
71 the macallan 10 years old
67 aberlour 10 year old

Mixed Drinks with Scotch, Drambuie and Glayva
Rob Roy or Thistle (a Scotch Manhattan)
 1 1/2 oz Scotch
 1/4 oz sweet vermouth
 Angostura bitters (or Peychaud's †) (optional)

Combine the scotch, sweet vermouth and dry vermouth in a mixing glass
half-filled with ice cubes. Stir well, strain into a cocktail glass,
and garnish with a maraschino cherry or a lemon twist.

Dry Rob Roy - made with dry vermouth.
Perfect Rob Roy - made with equal parts sweet and dry vermouth.

Bobby Burns
There are two recipes for the Bobby Burns.
 2 ounces blended Scotch whisky
 1 ounce Italian (sweet) vermouth
 1 dash Angostura bitters (or if you have Peychaud's on hand, give that a spin)
 2 dashes Drambuie® OR Bénédictine
 Note: Some recipes call 1/2 oz. of Drambuie

Stir with ice and strain into a cocktail glass;
twist a piece of lemon peel over the drink, and add the twist as garnish.

In "The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks", David Embury says:
"Peychaud's tends to marry better with Scotch"

 See:
Bobby Burns at CocktailChronicles.com
Bobby Burns at DrinksMixer.com



In "A Birthday Toast to Scotland's Bard" (WSJ Jan. 23, 2009) they say:
The peculiar habit among Americans to call Burns "Bobby" (or "Bobbie")
has long been an object of derision. 
Ogden Nash proclaimed in the New Yorker:
He would no more speak of Tommy Hardy or Bernie Shaw.
His 1951 Poem "Everything's Haggis in Hoboken"  says
"And I yearn to shatter a set of crockery/On this condescending Bobbie-sockery."

Glasgow
1 1/2 oz Scotch whisky
1 tbsp dry vermouth
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp almond extract

Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice.
Shake and strain into an old fashioned glass.

The Highland Cream
1 oz Scotch whisky
1/2 oz white creme de cacao
1/4 oz peppermint schnapps
1/4 oz Galliano® herbal liqueur
1 tsp Glayva® Scotch liqueur *
1 oz whipping cream

Shake and strain into an ice-filled old-fashioned glass, and serve.

* I couldn't find Glayva at any stores. It wasn't in their catalogue either.
The only US source I found was Wine Globe.

Drambuie® drinks:

Drambuie on ice

Rusty Nail
1 1/2 oz Scotch whisky
1/2 oz Drambuie® Scotch whisky (Some call for a 1:1 ratio)
1 twist lemon peel

Pour the scotch and drambuie into an old-fashioned glass almost filled
with ice cubes. Stir well. Garnish with the lemon twist.

Espresso Martini Cocktail

Shake 2 parts Drambuie,
1 part Crème de Cacao,
2 parts strong espresso and
pour into a pre-chilled martini glass.
Dust with cinnamon.

Clansmen's Christmas Toddy
1 part Drambuie
2 parts cider
2 parts boiling water
Add 3 squeezes of lemon
Garnish with lemon and cinnamon stick.


Drambuie recipes at cocktails.suite101.com

Drambuie_recipes at drambuie.com

Glayva drinks
Glayva blush: Cranberry, chrushed ice and lime.
Glayva gold: Ginger Ale, chrushed ice and lime.
Highland Latte: Expresso, water, brown sugar, layer of fresh cream and
   a dram of Glayva
Glayva on the rocks.
* I couldn't find Glayva at any stores. It wasn't in their catalogue either.
The only US source I found was Wine Globe.

Links:
Other Scotch based drinks at DrinksMixer.com

Drambuie Cocktail Recipes at cocktails.suite101.com