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Ardbeg's 19-year-old Traigh Bhan Batch 2 is Islay peat transformed by patience — a composed, deeply layered single malt ...
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November 29, 2025
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A rare 1974 Ardbeg bottled by Signatory after 19 years in oak — a composed, historically significant Islay malt from an ...
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November 27, 2025
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A cask-strength relic from Ardbeg's most precarious decade, the 1974 Provenance is old-school Islay bottled before the w...
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November 27, 2025
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The Port Ellen 1978 Gemini Set pairs original and remnant cask expressions from one of Islay's most mythologised silent ...
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November 24, 2025
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A discontinued Ardbeg classic distilled in 1990 and bottled in 2008, the Airigh Nam Beist is a piece of Islay history at...
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November 23, 2025
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A ghost distillery's final vintage, twenty-two years in sherry oak — Port Ellen 1983 is finite, formidable Islay whisky ...
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November 23, 2025
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A rare 1978 Ardbeg from Gordon & MacPhail's Connoisseurs Choice range — an Islay time capsule from a distillery on the b...
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November 22, 2025
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The bottle that launched Laphroaig's cask strength series — Batch 001 from 2009 delivers uncompromising Islay character ...
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November 22, 2025
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A rare 1966 Islay distillation given thirty-five years of patience by Hart Brothers, bottled at a considered 43.7% ABV. ...
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November 21, 2025
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A cult Islay bottling from Ardbeg's near-closure era, the 1990 Airigh Nam Beist is seventeen years of coastal peat and o...
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November 20, 2025
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A 29-year-old pre-revival Bruichladdich bottled for The Kinship series — a rare, un-peated Islay malt shaped by nearly t...
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November 19, 2025
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A 25-year-old Ardbeg from the distillery's precarious late-1970s era, bottled by Gordon & MacPhail in 2005. At £1,200, i...
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November 19, 2025