Recent Islay Whisky Articles
A €1M Port Ellen 1979 Cask Heads to Auction
A €1-Million Cask of Port Ellen 1979 Is Heading to Auction — and It Might Be the Whisky Opportunity of a Generation There are rare whiskies, and then there is this. On September 14, 2026, Fine Spirits Auction — France's premier online spirits auctioneer — announced that a whole cask of Port Ellen
Bowmore and Snarkitecture's Captivo Collection Explored
Where Manhattan Meets Islay: Bowmore and Snarkitecture Drop the Captivo Collection There is an old argument in the whisky world — one that surfaces every time a distillery partners with a designer, an artist, or a luxury brand — about whether the liquid in the bottle still matters once the packagi
Ardbeg Trudernish: First Permanent 15-Year-Old Explained
Ardbeg Trudernish: The Distillery's First Permanent 15-Year-Old Is Here — And It's Already Winning Gold There are moments in the Scotch whisky world that feel genuinely overdue, and the arrival of Ardbeg Trudernish is one of them. Ardbeg has unveiled the first permanent 15-year-old expression to i
Bruichladdich Octomore 17 Series: The World's Peatiest Whisky
Bruichladdich's Octomore 17 Series Is Here, and It's Still the Most Provocative Whisky in the World There's a particular kind of audacity baked into every bottle of Octomore. It's not the audacity of age — these whiskies are young by Scotch standards. It's not the audacity of obscurity, either, si
Bowmore Captivo Collection Merges Islay Tradition With NY Design
Bowmore's Captivo Collection Is Where Two Centuries of Islay Whisky Meet New York Design Ambition On August 19, 2026, a distillery that has been laying down whisky since the American Revolution announced a collaboration that nobody in the single malt world saw coming. Bowmore, Islay's oldest licen
Bunnahabhain's An Cuan Garbh No. 1 Reaches American Shores
Bunnahabhain Brings An Cuan Garbh No. 1 to American Shores as the Westering Home Journey Deepens There is a line of thinking in the whisky world that the best limited releases don't just taste good — they mean something. Bunnahabhain, the unpeated outlier on Scotland's smokiest island, has built i
Bruichladdich Yellow Submarine III: The Absurd Whisky Story
Bruichladdich Yellow Submarine III: The Most Gloriously Absurd Whisky Story in Scotch History Resurfaces for the 25th Anniversary There is no other whisky series in the world that owes its existence to a bureaucratic intelligence failure, two bewildered fishermen, and a bright yellow robot submari
