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The bottle that launched the Port Ellen legend — a 1979 vintage, 22 years in oak, bottled at cask strength as the first ...
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Joe Whitfield
October 21, 2025
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A 1975 Ardbeg bottled at natural strength after 27 years in sherry wood by Douglas Laing's Old Malt Cask series — rare, ...
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October 20, 2025
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A 28-year-old sherry cask Port Ellen from the year the distillery fell silent — bottled at cask strength by Old & Rare P...
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October 19, 2025
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A rare 26-year-old Ardbeg from 1974 vintage, bottled at 50% by Douglas Laing's Old Malt Cask series — a time capsule fro...
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October 18, 2025
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A collector's piece from Lagavulin's late-1980s distillations, finished in Pedro Ximénez sherry casks and bottled in 200...
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October 18, 2025
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A 12-year-old Islay malt carrying the Port Ellen name, independently bottled by Douglas Murdoch — a genuine artefact fro...
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October 17, 2025
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A 30-year-old Ardbeg distilled in 1973 and bottled by Douglas Laing at cask strength — a rare and commanding Islay singl...
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October 17, 2025
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A 34-year-old single cask Islay from Gordon & MacPhail's Connoisseurs Choice range, bottled at a confident 47.3% ABV. Pa...
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October 16, 2025
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A rare 1975 vintage Ardbeg bottled by Cadenhead's at 46%, this fifteen-year-old Islay single malt is a genuine piece of ...
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October 15, 2025
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A cask-strength Lagavulin from the early days of Diageo's Special Releases series, the 2003 Third Release delivers raw I...
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October 15, 2025
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A 25-year-old sherry cask Port Ellen from 1983 — the year the distillery fell silent. At 46% and bottled under the Prove...
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October 12, 2025
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A rare Signatory Millennium bottling of early-'90s Ardbeg, distilled during the distillery's near-silent years — young a...
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October 11, 2025