It’s about time to give Bunnahabhain a break and consider something else from the same island. With 9 (Ardnahoe being the newist) working distilleries on the island their is always a lot of official releases to choose from. While this wasn’t always the case the single malt market makes up the bulk of sales from […]
Aerolite Lyndsay 10 Year Old – The Character of Islay Whisky Company
The Character of Islay Whisky Company is another brand from the people behind the Master of Malt website. They know that there are better margins to be made selling their own bottles of whisky than reselling official bottles. The prices are now so high on bottles through a mixture of taxation, production costs and wholesale […]
The Islay Boys: FlatNose
The last time out I introduced this relatively new bottler The Islay Boys. The backstory being I found this bottle going cheap around the same time as the company announced a crowd funding exercise to expand into distilling Whisky and Rum. With the chatting out of the way the important work begins of tasting the first […]
Cask Islay – Bourbon Edition
The final post from the tweet tasting from AD Rattray is the best in my opinion. The sister expression to the previous sherry edition is this bourbon edition. Available at some point in 2020 there is quite a wait until you can get a bottle but trust me it will be worse it. The whisky […]
Cask Islay – Sherry Edition
This is where the interesting whiskies start from AD Rattray. This Cask Islay edition adds cask strength to the general release and a sherry maturation period to the entry level single malt. Available as a small limited batch from October 2019 this is the first of two new Cask Islay editions to be released from […]
Cask Islay
Now we are starting to get the main event. The Islay single malts are the main point of this tweet tasting marathon we are going through. Coming soon is to limited edition Cask Islay releases of which we got to sample ahead of their release in soon(ish). The Cask Islay release was the first product […]
Islay Films from 1948
In what has to be the oldest freely available footage from the Isle of Islay I have found 6 YouTube videos from an Ian Maclean. Using 8mm film Ian’s father shot all of these movies using what would be a very expensive camera at the time during family holidays to the island I suspect. What […]
Bowmore 1964: New Boiler delivery
In 1964 Bowmore had delivered a new boiler from Renfrew just outside of Glasgow. The plan was to use the Royal Navy to delivery the boiler and part of a new still to the island from their base in Rhu during a May Bank Holiday. The route was to be as below: A short […]
Lagavulin 1999 (bottled 2015) Pedro Ximénez Cask Finish – Distillers Edition
In the shops, the Christmas decorations and cards have started to appear in the shops. At the risk of sounding like an older gentleman, I will say that it definitely gets earlier every year! After last Christmas Tesco’s in the UK seemed to make a decision to sell off a lot of their stock of […]
Ardbeg Kelpie – Committee Release
I was lucky enough during the recent offering the committee edition release of Ardbeg Kelpie to get my hands on a bottle. With Feis Ile approaching from the horizon there isn’t a better time to share what my view on the upcoming festival offering. The Distillery Ardbeg is another of the Islay peated heavyweights. Situated […]
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