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@cowfish
cowfish started a discussion

The Islay festival has just finished and from reports it seems that some interesting festival bottlings appeared. As I'm a 'Friend of Laphroaig' I've got a bottle of the festival 'Cairdeas' on its way, but pretty much all of the others distillery bottlings seem to be only available on the island (or sold out). I've had the last couple of years worth of Cairdeas, and they were both quite good, but I've not yet managed to find any of the others.

Did anyone go up to Islay this year or has anyone tried any of the bottlings, this year or previous?

14 years ago

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@WTC
WTC replied

@cowfish hi Cowfish, I went up with my partner. We got six of the feis ile bottlings, missed out on Kilchoman (queue to long and they had a power cut) and ardbeg (announced it was £250, which was too expensive for me, then actually sold it for £125! Grrr). We actually wrote a blog on it and reviewed them there. The bruichladdich is a 6 year old, quite sherried, we were not big fans. The bunnahaiban was an 18 year old with a sherry finish, again, didnt quite work in my opinion. Bowmore did two, the first a special release of tempest, the second a limited run of 100 25 yr olds. They were queuing for the latter from 2 am(£350), so didnt get that. The tempest was very nice though. Laphroaig you know, Laga was a single cask of 17 year old, caol ile I think was 12y rs (but I'd need to check) both excellent. Not a cheap business though, bunn £85, laga and ci £75 a bottle.

14 years ago 0

@cowfish
cowfish replied

@WTC I'm most jealous - I've got a friend who left for Islay yesterday and I've spent a lunchtime or two recently doing my yearly prospective planning of a trip... One day I'll make it up there :)

What was the Laphroaig one like? I've not heard anything about it yet and they famously take quite a while to send it out (I think I got a discount this year due to how long it too them to send it last year...).

I've found the blog post, so I'll have a bit of a read...

14 years ago 0

@WTC
WTC replied

@cowfish the Cairdeas is a lovely dram, a bit lighter than the others in the range, almost floral, but not quite. The peat hit isa bit delayed, spicy oak a bit more prominant. We are doing a lateral laphroaig tasting next month so I'll report back. Islay is a lovely place for a holiday, beautiful island (at least, it is in the sunshine!)

14 years ago 0