Ardbeg Twenty Something
/23 Year Old | 46.3% ABV
Distillery | Ardbeg
Bottled 2017
23 Year Old | 46.3% ABV
Distillery | Ardbeg
Bottled 2017
NAS | 57.2% ABV
Distillery | Laphroaig
"This 2017 bottling is a Cask Strength Quarter Cask, which uses the art of aging in smaller casks to create more intense maturation through greater contact with the American Oak"
10 Year Old | 59.5% ABV
Distillery | Caol Ila
Cask strength. Distilled 12-2-2004, bottled 1-20-2015.
5 Year Old | 59.2% ABV
Distillery | Kilchoman
Cask strength. Distilled 5-29-2009, bottled 7-12-2014, Cask #394/2009, aged in a first fill Bourbon cask and finished in a Pedro Ximénez Sherry cask.
5 Year Old | 50% ABV
Distillery | Kilchoman
Distilled 2011, bottled 2016. "matured for over five years in Sauternes casks" Limited release of only 6,000 bottles.
41 Year Old | 40.1% ABV
Distillery | Bunnahabhain
Cask strength, but check the ABV! Almost didn't qualify for bottling! Distilled June 1969, bottled February 2011. Cask # 7251, bottle # 99 of 213 total.
NAS | 50% ABV
Distillery | Bowmore
Finished in Bordeaux Red Wine Casks
NAS | 51.5% ABV
Distillery | Bowmore
Finished in Ruby Port Pipes
25 Year Old | 51.7% ABV
Distillery | Lagavulin
"Natural Cask Strength" "Matured in sherry oak casks" Bottle # 1171 of 8000. The names and dates of every distillery manager are on the bottle.
16 Year Old | 43% ABV
Distillery | Lagavulin
Distilled 2000, bottled 2016. "Double matured in Pedro Ximinez cask wood"
5 Year Old | 61.2% ABV
Distillery | Bruichladdich
309 ppm peat phenols, making it the "most heavily-peated Octomore to date." Matured "in 56% first fill Bourbon casks, the remaining in ex-Paulliac, Ventoux, Rhone and Burgundy casks." "A thunderstorm of a dram." Great!!!
NAS | 46.6% ABV
Distillery | Ardbeg
Made from a vatting of "whiskies from several cask types - including; sweet Pedro Ximenez; spicy virgin charred oak; and intense ex-bourbon casks, amongst others." The Mull of Oa is the southern-most point of Islay.
21 Year Old | 46% ABV
Distillery | Ardbeg
Aged in ex-Bourbon casks. Allied Domecq owned Ardbeg in 1993 and 1994 when this was distilled and only operated the distillery a few weeks every year producing peated malt whisky primarily for blending use.
NAS | 50% ABV
Distillery | Bunnahabhain
Pronounced 'Cru-ach Vhona' meaning 'peat stack' in Scots Gaelic. Originally released for travel retail.
9 Year Old | 46% ABV
Distillery | Bruichladdich
Distilled Sep 11, 2001, bottled Jan 1, 2011. Matured in bourbon casks. Bottle 346 of 2,500 originally released for Fèis Ìle 2011, the second of a pair of special bottlings marking the acquisition and re-birth of the distillery.
NAS | 40% ABV
Distillery | Laphroaig
First matured in ex-boubon barrels then transferred to new American white oak (quercas alba) barrels.
5 Year Old | 58.5% ABV
Distillery | Bruichladdich
208 ppm peat phenols. Spirit matured in classic American oak married with spirit matured in Syrah casks from the northern Rhone valley.
NAS | 46% ABV
Distillery | Kilchoman
Named after a headland just north of Machir Bay.
6 Year Old | 50% ABV
Distillery | Bruichladdich
Distilled 2009, bottled 2015. The farms furnishing the grain are centrally located on Islay providing a different terroir from the 2007 Rockside Farm release.
NAS | 46% ABV
Distillery | Ardbeg
Aged in virgin casks made from oak sourced from the Adyghe Republic on the shore of the Black Sea.
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