You can drive from one end of Islay to the other in under an hour. Yet the distilleries you pass along the way produce whiskies …
Peated Scotch Whisky: Regions, Distilleries and How to Navigate Them
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Laphroaig 10 vs Quarter Cask vs Select: key differences and which one to buy
Laphroaig has a small set of bottles that most people run into early when exploring peated Islay whisky: Laphroaig 10, Quarter Cask, and Select. They …
PPM in Peated Whisky: What It Measures, What It Doesn’t, and How to Use It
PPM is the number you see quoted most often when talking about peated whisky, but it’s also the fastest way to get the wrong idea. …
Ardbeg 10 vs Wee Beastie vs An Oa: which one should you buy?
Three Ardbeg core bottlings, three different roles: the same Ardbeg DNA of dark smoke, citrus and coastal salinity, but with a noticeably different feel in …
Suntory merges Bowmore and Laphroaig operations teams on Islay
Suntory Global Spirits has announced that the operations teams at its two Islay distilleries, Bowmore and Laphroaig, will be merged into a single unit. At …
Laphroaig 10 Year Old
Laphroaig 10 Year Old is the core range bottling that defines the distillery’s baseline: an Islay peated single malt with a medicinal, coastal profile, direct …
Lagavulin 16
Lagavulin 16 Year Old is one of those single malts that, for better or worse, always shows up in the conversation when people talk about …
From Blends to Single Malts: 5 Peated Whiskies to Start With
If you mainly drink blended Scotch and you’re starting to get curious about peat, moving to single malts is one of those steps that changes …
Ardbeg 10 vs Laphroaig 10 vs Lagavulin 16 vs Caol Ila 12: a quick, practical comparison
If you are torn between Ardbeg 10, Laphroaig 10, Lagavulin 16 and Caol Ila 12, you are basically choosing between four different interpretations of Islay …
Bruichladdich Old Skool 10 Years in the TTB registry
Sometimes whisky news does not come from press releases or social media teasers, but from bureaucratic documents. That is the case with Bruichladdich Old Skool …