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Location: Dubai
About: I am an bar expert, who is focussed to raise the quality of bars and drinks and supports the cigar smoking culture
Favorite foods: These are more drinks...
Though also forbidden pleasures as foie gras, truffles, wagyu beef and duck fat fried french fries.
Last bite on earth: Slow roasted wagyu beef cheeks

I think the comparison is really not appropriate:
We should ask if Bourbon or Scotch Single Malt Whisky...
And this question is quite hard to decide: there are amazing bold bourbons around and if you compare an average bourbon with an average malt I would go for the bourbon - however there are just stunning malts as well: The cited Islays for example, which kicks the hell out of you, or some remarkable malts like Aberlour a'bunadh, Macallan Sherry Oak, Glenmorangie Artisan Cask and many more!
It is not really the question what to chose, as these spirits are so different, that the need to coexist (that is the paradox in the spirit world - a flavored neutral grain spirit can be both a gin or a vodka - however that different spirits like bourbons, Irish and Scotch (plus the sub-variations blended and malt) are just whisk(e)y!