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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…

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Auchentoshan 12 Years

Replac­ing the now extinct 10 year old is this sump­tiously pack­aged 12 year old ver­sion of the triple-distilled Low­land. Hap­pily they’ve improved on the 10, being richer, spicier and with more sherry influence.

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Auchentoshan 21 Years

A deli­ciously smooth, mel­low long-aged Auchen­toshan. A sophis­ti­cated and well-balanced dram to savour slowly after a good meal.

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Balvenie 12 Year Old Doublewood

Sweet fruit and Oloroso sherry notes, lay­ered with honey and vanilla.

Taste: A smooth and mel­low sin­gle malt of beau­ti­fully com­bined flavours — nutty sweet­ness, cin­na­mon spici­ness and a del­i­cately pro­por­tioned layer of sherry — with a long and warmi

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Bowmore 12 Years

This is a new pack­ag­ing of the islay’s ‘medium-peated’ malt. It has a clear iodine char­ac­ter with lots of pep­per and yet the malt is bal­anced and smooth as well as smoky.

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Bunnahabhain 12 Years

A very lightly-peated malt that serves as per­haps the mildest intro­duc­tion to the Islay style. Flo­ral and fruity tones dom­i­nate with the peat influ­ence in the back­ground. The main base for the splen­did ‘Black Bot­tle’ blend. Gen­tle and smooth with…

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Caol Ila 18 Years

Extra age­ing has calmed the impact of the phe­nols, with the peat arriv­ing on the palate late, and tem­pered by smooth oak. A very mel­low, mature Islay malt.

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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…

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Glengoyne 12 Years

Nose

A lit­tle faded with touches of autumn leaves, bung cloth, unripe mango, (bread crust on a Scot­tish plain loaf). Alco­hol in bal­ance. With water there’s more overt oak and a hint of con­densed milk.

Palate

Dense and full but…

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Lagavulin 16 Years

Lagavulin takes its water from the Solum Lochs, con­tribut­ing some of the whisky’s peati­ness. Malt peated with 35ppm of phe­no­lic flavour com­pounds passes this flavour into the spirit. The malt is ground, washed sev­eral times with hot water which is…

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