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Ardbeg Distillery

Ard­beg Dis­tillery is a Scotch whisky dis­tillery on the south coast of the isle of Islay.

Other dis­til­leries on the south coast include Laphroaig and Lagavulin. Ard­beg claims to be the peati­est Islay whisky, and uses malted bar­ley sourced from the…


Bushmills Distillery

The Old Bush­mills Dis­tillery was founded in 1608 and is now owned by the major drinks com­pany Dia­geo. Bush­mills whiskey is pro­duced, matured, and bot­tled on-site at the Bush­mills Dis­tillery in Bush­mills, County Antrim, North­ern Ire­land. The dis­tillery is a…


Caol Ila Distillery

Caol Ila Dis­tillery is a Scotch whisky dis­tillery near Port Askaig on the isle of Islay, Scotland.

His­tory

Caol Ila (Gaelic for “Sound of Islay” and pro­nounced cull eela) was founded in 1846 by Hec­tor Hen­der­son. The dis­tillery did not…


Clynelish 1974 / 23 YO

The Rare Malts are a now-discontinued series of cask-strength releases designed by Dia­geo to show­case some of the hid­den trea­sures in their port­fo­lio. This is a clas­sic Clynel­ish orig­i­nally released in 1997, so stocks are now under­stand­ably very low.

Accord­ing to…


Clynelish Distillery

His­tory

The dis­tillery was founded in 1967 next to the old Brora dis­tillery (first called Clynel­ish dis­tillery). The dis­tillery was estab­lished in May 1968, but was in pro­duc­tion in April 1969. To avoid con­fu­sion, the first Clynel­ish was on December…


Dalwhinnie 15 Years

Strik­ingly clean flavours. Salt and malt in the nose. Clear High­land malt char­ac­ter with sub­tle peati­ness. Aro­matic. Del­i­cately spicy. Unshake­able grass– and grain-type veg­e­ta­tive asso­ci­a­tions: cut grass, wheat, fields of grain. Refreshing.

A good intro­duc­tion to the delights of single…


Diageo announced four new distillery-only whiskies

This just came in. I have always liked the con­cept of distillery-only whiskies. I think if you make the effort to visit a dis­tillery, you should be rewarded for your efforts.
Here’s the press release:

Four New Whiskies Announced by Dia­geo
Spe­cial Distillery-only Sin­gle Malt Scotch Whisky Bot­tlings
Dia­geo has announced four addi­tions to their exten­sive range of single […]


Diageo releases 4th (and final) batch of “Manager’s Choice” whiskies

I received this press release yes­ter­day but was in NYC on busi­ness. You can fol­low the trail of blood lead­ing back to the announce­ment of the first release here.
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DIAGEO LAUNCH THE FOURTH AND FINAL BATCH OF THEIR SINGLE-CASK COLLECTION OF MALT SCOTCH WHISKIES
Fol­low­ing ear­lier batches launched in Sep­tem­ber, Jan­u­ary and April, Dia­geo are now launch­ing the […]


Glen Ord Distillery

Glen Ord is the only remain­ing sin­gle malt Scotch whisky dis­tillery on the Black Isle in the High­lands of Scot­land. It is located in the vil­lage of Muir of Ord, about 18 mi (29 km) west by north­west of Inverness…


Glenmorangie Distillery

Glen­morangie is a dis­tillery in Tain, Ross-shire, Scot­land. The dis­tillery is owned by The Glen­morangie Com­pany Ltd. Their main prod­uct is the range of Glen­morangie sin­gle malt whisky. The Glen­morangie Com­pany ceased to pro­duce blended whisky for super­mar­kets in 2009.

Glen­morangie…


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