Scotch is never going to be really fruity though. It isn't made from fruit... Something like a Glen Livet or Glen Fiddich is pretty tasty IMO. The cheaper 12 yo are still nice, but you'll need to add more water than what you would for say the 18yo. If you don't like them at all, then maybe you aren't a scotch whisky guy.
In that case I'd try some brandy. Cognac is a grape brandy made in the Champagne region. VSOP is as cheap as you'd want to go, but is still tasty. Much sweeter than scotch whisky too. I quite like Calvados too, which is an apple brandy from Normandy in France. Brandy is lovely to slowly sip over an evening.
American whiskey is sweeter than scotch whisky as it has a high percentage of corn (scotch is mainly barley).
Another one to try is a decent bottle of rum. Rum is made from cane sugar, so very sweet. And delicious!
I tend to find that price is an ok indication of quality... to a point. Cheap anything usually isn't great. But there are plenty of spirits around the $100 mark that taste better than bottles twice their price! Johnny Walker Blue label is a good example. It is very nice, but for close to $180 a bottle you can do much better (at that price you can't go past Macallan 18), and even that Abelour I suggested above is possibly better!
