Given that one respected whisky writer considers this distillery’s produce to be so good that he has to artificially handicap it in his tasting scores, this one has a lot to live up to.
Ardbeg 10 year old, 46%
A new bottle; always interesting to open a bottle for the first time and get the first impression. [...]
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Ardbeg - the finest malt whisky in the world?
February 28th, 2008 
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Caol Ila - The Hidden Islay Malt
February 7th, 2008 Bill For this first survey of Islay single malts I’m sticking as much as possible to standard versions that you should be able to get from most decent off-licenses (liquor stores for our American cousins). This will give us a comparison point when we come to the more exotic versions later on and will allow our [...]
Islay, Queen of the Whisky Isles
February 1st, 2008 Bill There are many areas of Scotland with concentrations of distilleries but of all of them there are none to compare with the lovely remote island of Islay. Of the other island sources Orkney has a mere two, Skye, Mull and Arran only one each, yet Islay has an astonishing seven - all of them highly [...]