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A 1980s litre bottling of Laphroaig 10 Year Old at 43% ABV — a genuine piece of Islay history that delivers a rounder, r...
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Joe Whitfield
November 9, 2025
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A 38-year-old cask strength Caol Ila from Gordon & MacPhail's Connoisseurs Choice range — a rare and serious Islay singl...
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November 8, 2025
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A 21-year-old single cask Caol Ila from 1981, bottled at a confident 46% from first-fill cask #280 — this is aged Islay ...
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November 8, 2025
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A 1982 Port Ellen from one of the distillery's final years of production, matured for 25 years in a single sherry cask a...
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November 8, 2025
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A 1982 vintage Port Ellen from one of the distillery's final years, bottled at 50% from a single cask by Douglas Laing. ...
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November 7, 2025
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Bruichladdich's 16 Year Old Cuvée F marries serious Islay character with the plummy depth of Pomerol wine casks — a conf...
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November 7, 2025
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Octomore Edition 16.2 delivers Islay peat at full intensity — five years old, 58.1% cask strength, and utterly unapologe...
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November 7, 2025
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A 25-year-old cask strength Islay from a distillery that fell silent in 1983, the Port Ellen 4th Release is whisky histo...
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November 6, 2025
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A thirty-eight-year-old Bunnahabhain from the 1968 vintage, bottled by Duncan Taylor at 43.1% — this is Islay at its mos...
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November 4, 2025
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A forty-two-year-old Port Ellen from Gordon & MacPhail's Private Collection — ghost distillery Islay malt at cask streng...
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November 4, 2025
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A rare single-cask Ardbeg from 1975, matured for 23 years in sherry cask #4718 and bottled at a confident 46.7%. Old-wor...
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November 2, 2025
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A 21-year-old Bunnahabhain bottled by Wemyss Malts as part of their Expressions of Gratitude series — unshowy, deeply co...
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November 1, 2025