If you are the No.1 fan of this delightful smokey and peaty whisky, this must surely be the job for you. Ardbeg are currently looking for a National Brand Ambassador who knows there way around a mash tun, to help promote the brand in the USA. Requirements: The Ardbeg Ambassador is self-made with a strong […]
Category Archives: Islay
Bowmore Launches 52 Year Old Expression – One of the World’s Rarest Single Malts
Bowmore has announced the release of Bowmore 1965, the latest expression in the Vaults Series. Having matured for 52 years at Bowmore distillery the home of the world’s oldest scotch maturation warehouse, and benefitting from a careful aging process over the course of many decades, Bowmore 1965 is one of the rarest and most refined […]
Bunnahabhain unveils two new bottlings for Fèis Ìle 2018
Bunnahabhain Distillery will unveil two special edition Fèis Ìle 2018 single malt bottlings at the annual Islay Festival of Music and Malt from 25 May to 2 June 2018. The Moine Oloroso Finish bottled in 2007 and the 15 Year Old Spanish Oak Finish are two very different spirits even though they were both produced […]
Bunnahabhain releases its oldest ever single malt – the 46 Year Old, “Eich Bhana Lìr”
During the winter months, the distillery warehouses, situated close to the sea and looking over to the Paps of Jura, are often enveloped by the raging seas. Bunnahabhain 46 Year Old is named after the God Lìr, the powerful ruler of the sea in Gaelic mythology, who used his great white waves to wash ashore […]
Hunter Laing has unveiled ‘The Kinship’ – a range of six bottlings of exceptionally rare Islay whiskies
Hunter Laing has unveiled ‘The Kinship’, a range of six bottlings of exceptionally rare Islay whiskies, which will only be sold at their new shop on Islay during and after the Feis Ile whisky festival. The six single cask Islay whiskies in the Kinship collection have a combined age of 181 years and were hand-picked […]
Whisky fans head to Jura for Tastival 2017 – 1st June
Jura Single Malt Whisky announces the launch of its Tastival 2017 bottling, a unique Limited Edition single malt that marks the distillery’s annual island whisky festival, set to take place on 1 June 2017. Music, live entertainment and the opportunity chance to sample Jura’s range will be available in the Dramming Bar in the distillery’s […]
Kilchoman – Release 2007 Vintage
Islay’s independent farm distillery, Kilchoman, is to release the oldest whisky to date. Only 10,000 bottles of the limited edition 2007 Vintage will be made available worldwide and it is expected to sell quickly. Anthony Wills, managing director of Kilchoman, said: “This is an exciting development and sees us enter a long-awaited period in our […]
Green Welly Stop taking pre-orders on Port Ellen 30 Year Old
Whisky and outdoor gifts site, the Green Welly Stop, is taking pre-orders now on the last of the 30 Year Old Port Ellen from Ian Macleod Distillers. The final cask in the bottler’s warehouse, cask #1518, is being bottled round about now, with the store expecting to take delivery by the end of the month. […]
Bowmore 1957 fails to sell
The oldest bottle of Islay whisky ever put up for auction failed to sell on Wednesday, after failing to reach the reserve price of £100,000 put on it by producers Bowmore. The hammer came down on the 54-year-old bottle of Bowmore 1957, one of only 12 produced, at £80,000, but the producers declined to sell […]
Charity whisky sells for £27,000
A special one-off bottle of Ardbeg has sold in an Edinburgh charity auction for £27,000. The Ardbeg Aoibhinn, was a one-off bottle created by Glenmorangie and Ardbeg’s director of distilling and whisky creation, Dr Bill Lumsden, and selected by whisky writer Charles Maclean. It came in a bespoke decanter made by jewellery designer Maeve Gillies. […]
Jura Standing Stone released
Following a sneak preview at the end of last week on the Whisky Israel site, Jura distillery officially launched their 30 year old single malt whisky on Monday. The Standing Stone, or ‘Camas an Staca’ in Gaelic, is named after a 12 foot standing stone on the island believed to have been laid some 3,000 […]
Islay malt predicted to sell for over £150K
All eyes in the whisky world will be on Edinburgh this Wednesday when the first bottles of the recently released Bowmore 1957 go up for sale at Bonhams. The 54-year-old Islay malt is the oldest ever bottled by the distillery, or any other on the famed whisky island and has a reserve price of £100,000. […]