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Benriach Distillery

The Ben­Ri­ach dis­tillery is a sin­gle malt Scotch whisky dis­tillery in the Spey­side area of Scot­land. It is oper­ated inde­pen­dently by the Ben­Ri­ach Dis­tillery Com­pany Lim­ited, formed by two South African whisky enthu­si­asts Geoff Bell and Wayne Keiswet­ter and Scotch…

Laphroaig 10 Years

Laphroaig, pro­nounced “La-froyg”, is an all-malt scotch whisky from the remote island of Islay. Laphroaig is a gaelic word, and means “the beau­ti­ful hol­low by the broad bay”.

Described as “a won­der­fully com­plex whisky” by Michael Jack­son, cask strength Laphroaig has…

Laphroaig 15 YO

The dis­tillers describe this whisky as “Mildly smoky, with sweet, warm under­tones — and just a hint of the sea.” Always bot­tled in lim­ited quan­ti­ties and replaced by the 18 year old in March 2009. Faintly salty. Laphroaig 15yo is…

Laphroaig 18 Year Old

This 18 year old expres­sion (which is replac­ing the much-loved 15yo) of Laphroaig is made in lim­ited quan­ti­ties each year and savoured by a for­tu­nate few. A soft, sweet and spicy Islay peat smoke greets you when you first open…

Laphroaig 25 YO

Here’s the new large batch Laphroaig, unex­pect­edly bot­tled at 40%. A bit strange when you know the dif­fer­ence that just 3 more per­cents can make to the reg­u­lar 10yo. This is a very mel­low taste with pretty del­i­cate peat, some…

Laphroaig 25 YO, Cask Strength

This is a new cask-strength bot­tling of Laphroaig 25yo. The whisky is a very dif­fer­ent beast to the old 25yo. It has a rich and smoul­der­ing taste, with a big coal hit and a lin­ger­ing sea­weed char­ac­ter. Lovely stuff

Laphroaig 40 YO, 1960

Pro­duced using dis­till­ing meth­ods first estab­lished in 1815, Laphroaig 40 Year Old was laid down by the only lady dis­tillers and dis­tillery own­ers, Bessie Williamson. Known and respected for her vision and love of Laphroaig, Bessie used Euro­pean oak to…

Laphroaig Distillery

The Laphroaig dis­tillery (the name means “the beau­ti­ful hol­low by the broad bay”) was estab­lished in 1815, by Alex and Don­ald John­ston. The ‘John­ston’ broth­ers were actu­ally McCabes, of the Clan Don­ald, who changed their names fol­low­ing the failed Jacobite…

Malt Advocate Magazine’s “Top Ten New Whiskies” for 2009

Top Ten New Whiskies of the Year (listed alpha­bet­i­cally)
You will not be happy with the prices of some of these whiskies, but here’s our ten best new whiskies released in 2009 (keep­ing in mind that whiskies must have been for sale in the U.S. in the 2009 cal­en­dar year to be eli­gi­ble).
The selec­tion process for […]

Malt Advocate Whisky Awards “Lifetime Achievement Awards”: John Ramsay and Robert Hicks

This year, we honor two mas­ter blenders who have greatly impacted the Scotch whisky indus­try.
John Ram­say
John Ram­say retired in 2009 after 43 years in the whisky indus­try. He started as a chemist in 1966, and over the years he’s had the com­bined roles of both mas­ter blender and chemist (the last eigh­teen years being with […]