This Caol Ila 1983 from The Perfect Dram was bottled a decade ago. The release was 240 bottles strong, at cask strength. Great bronze color, by the way.It must have been a very active cask, for the…

It really pays to clean out your sample cabinet from time to time. Look what I found… an old Caol Ila from the Old Malt Cask series from the era when the Laing brothers still ran the company together.…

Belgian bottler Brachadair released a Caol Ila 2008 earlier this year. A young animal to be sure, but we all know that Caol Ila can be quite beautiful at young age. I am looking forward to this one. It…

Caol Ila released a 22 years old malt for Feis Ile 2019, but despite my shout out on social media, I have not (yet) been able to get one. Last year, my buddy Manny was on Islay, so I knew that the Feis…

Bottler Morrison & Mackay has launched a new range under ‘Regional Single Malts’. Sounds a bit much like Douglas Laing’s ‘Remarkable Regional Malts’, I say. Anyway. Their Islay malt is named The Big…

Aceo Ltd is the company that took over Murray McDavid from Mark Reynier at the moment the Bruichladdich Distillery was sold off. They now release this 5 Year Old malt that listens to the name Smoky Scot…

I found an old sample from Malts of Scotland in the back of my sample cabinet. After removing the dust and spider web, I saw it was a 13 Year Old Laffie, bottled in 2010 by the German bottler. Well, as…

Laphroaig puts out the so-called Cairdeas for Feis Ile since 2008. Cairdeas means friendship. I’ve tried them all bar the ones from 2017 and 2019 (if anyone has a sample for sale, get in touch!). Last…

The Maltman is a label from the Meadowside Blending Company, run by Donald Hart (which we also know from the Hart Brothers releases) and son Andrew Hart. This Port Charlotte, matured on an oloroso…

The Heretic was the Feis Ile 2018 release from Port Charlotte (from the Bruichladdich Distillery, of course) and is, according to the label ‘the last of the first’, meaning the last casks of the first…