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A 27-year-old unpeated Bunnahabhain from 1989, independently bottled by The Whisky Agency at natural strength — the kind...
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October 31, 2025
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A rare 1969-vintage Islay single cask bottled by Duncan Taylor after 33 years, this Peerless release is a collectors' pi...
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October 30, 2025
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A 36-year-old Ardbeg from Douglas Laing's 60th Anniversary Old Malt Cask series — rare, restrained at 43.5%, and carryin...
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October 30, 2025
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Ardbeg Traigh Bhan 19 Year Old Batch 7 is old peat with composure — nearly two decades of maturation have given this cas...
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October 29, 2025
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A mid-1980s distillation given the Pedro Ximénez Distillers Edition treatment and bottled in 2005, this Lagavulin carrie...
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October 29, 2025
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A 21-year-old Port Ellen from the 1982 vintage, independently bottled by Giuseppe Gambi — gentle at 40% ABV but carrying...
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October 28, 2025
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A rare single-cask Laphroaig from 1997, matured for twenty-five years and bottled at cask strength by Douglas Laing. At ...
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October 28, 2025
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A cask-strength piece of Islay history from Bruichladdich's heavily peated Port Charlotte line, the PC5 delivers raw coa...
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October 26, 2025
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A 1966 Bowmore bottled by Hart Brothers after 34 years in cask — old Islay from an era that predates the collector frenz...
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October 26, 2025
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A 1979 Port Ellen from sherry cask, independently bottled by Wilson & Morgan at 46% after twenty-three years — a piece o...
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October 23, 2025
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A 38-year-old Bowmore from the storied 1966 vintage, independently bottled by Duncan Taylor at a gentle 42.8%. A rare pi...
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October 21, 2025
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A 1974 single cask Caol Ila bottled at 23 years old — coastal Islay smoke refined by over two decades in first-fill oak,...
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October 21, 2025