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Port Ellen's 8th Annual Release is twenty-nine years of Islay character sealed in a bottle from a distillery that closed...
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Joe Whitfield
January 24, 2026
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A 24-year-old single cask from Port Ellen's final year of production, bottled at natural strength under the Provenance l...
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January 24, 2026
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A single sherry cask Port Ellen from 1983 — the distillery's final year of production — given twenty-three years to matu...
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January 22, 2026
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A 1990s litre bottling of Bunnahabhain 12 at 43% ABV — a genuine Islay time capsule from the gentlest distillery on the ...
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January 22, 2026
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Big Peat's 15th Anniversary red wine cask finish is a confident Islay celebration — peated, vinous, and bottled at a wel...
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January 21, 2026
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A thirty-year-old Bunnahabhain from 1968, bottled under the Family Silver label — composed, coastal, and deeply satisfyi...
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January 20, 2026
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A single cask Port Ellen from 1976, bottled at eighteen years and 46% — liquid archaeology from one of Islay's most myth...
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January 20, 2026
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A 1967-distilled Ardbeg matured for 30 years in a single dark Oloroso sherry cask, bottled by Signatory Vintage at natur...
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January 19, 2026
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Ardbeg Supernova's 2009 Stellar Release is Islay peat at extraordinary concentration — a cask-strength monument to smoke...
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January 18, 2026
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A 32-year-old single cask Bowmore from 1968, bottled by Signatory at 46% — old Islay at its most elegant, where decades ...
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January 17, 2026
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A 1970s Sherriff's bottling of Bowmore 8 Year Old — less a whisky to review and more a piece of Islay history in glass. ...
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January 15, 2026
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A rare over-thirty-year-old Ardbeg from the early 1990s lean years, bottled at a confident 47.7% ABV for the Artist #13 ...
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January 15, 2026