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Kilchoman's 2025 Machir Bay Cask Strength delivers full-volume Islay character at 58.1% ABV, and at around £60 it remain...
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October 11, 2025
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A 1990s bottling of Laphroaig 10 from the post-Royal Warrant era — heavier, more medicinal, and unmistakably of its time...
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October 10, 2025
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A 1974 vintage Caol Ila drawn from a single first-fill cask after nineteen years, this is old Islay at its most elegant ...
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October 10, 2025
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Bunnahabhain's Turas Math #1 is a cask-strength 15-year-old Islay that trades peat smoke for coastal depth and quiet con...
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October 8, 2025
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A 1979 Lagavulin Distillers Edition bottled in 1997, this full-litre Islay rarity pairs PX sherry cask richness with coa...
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October 7, 2025
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Caol Ila's 150th Anniversary bottling is a 20-year-old cask strength Islay malt that carries its age with remarkable gra...
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October 7, 2025
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A 1973 vintage Bunnahabhain aged 42 years and bottled at natural cask strength — this Rare Reserve is a piece of Islay h...
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October 7, 2025
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A 1980 vintage Port Ellen bottled from a single first-fill cask at 46% — sixteen years of Islay character from a distill...
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October 6, 2025
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A single cask Signatory bottling from Port Ellen's final year of production, this fourteen-year-old Islay malt carries t...
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October 5, 2025
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A rare late-1970s Ardbeg bottled by Gordon & MacPhail after over two decades in cask — old-school Islay character wrappe...
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October 5, 2025
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A 1979 vintage from Islay's most storied closed distillery, this Signatory single cask bottling offers twenty-two years ...
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October 4, 2025
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A single cask Port Ellen from 1976, aged eighteen years — genuine Islay history bottled at 46% from a distillery that wi...
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October 4, 2025