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    •    93 Points (Whisky Advocate): "The peat is never a blunt instrument... allowing maritime notes and sweetness to shine."  

    •    Silver Medal (Bartender Spirits Awards 2025): Recognized for its consistency and "go-to" status in the heavily peated category.



Producer Description

Port Charlotte 10 year old is conceived, distilled, matured and bottled only on Islay. Made from 100% Scottish barley, it is trickle distilled through tall, narrow-necked stills for a balanced, heathery style of barbeque smoke. 

Our Port Charlotte 10 year old expression is everything an Islay whisky can and should be.

With an ambition to make the ultimate “Islay” whisky, this is a single malt made by people not software; a whisky watched over every day of its maturing life by those who made it; a whisky born of a community with a vision and a mission to kick start a single malt whisky revolution. This Port Charlotte 10 year old is who we are. This is where we’re from.

We believe an “Islay” whisky should live and breathe the fresh salt tang of Islay air, all its life. This is not a spirit distilled on the island and immediately shipped off to the mainland to mature in an undisclosed warehouse.

This is a spirit born from the island and the community, a true expression of the land, the culture, the people.

Memo Summary Notes

Bruichladdich is known for transparency; this expression is non-chill filtered and coloring-free, distilled, matured, and bottled exclusively on Islay.

Producer Description 

Caribbean Cask has been matured in traditional oak whisky casks for 14 years, and then ‘finished’ in casks that previously held Caribbean rum. To create the ideal finish, Malt Master David Stewart filled American oak casks with his own blend of select West Indian rums. When he judged the casks to be ready, the rum was replaced with the 14 year old spirit and the wood was put to work adding the final touches.

The result is an exceptional single malt whisky with the traditional smooth, honeyed character of The Balvenie, married with notes of toffee and a hint of fruit, with a warm, lingering finish. Rich, sweet and creamy toffee on the nose combines with fresh fruit notes. Rounded with vanilla and sweet oak notes, with a fruity character that develops with time. Soft and lingering.

Expert Review 

Wine Enthusiast 92 Points | After regular maturation, this Scotch is extra matured in former rum casks. The end result layers rich, mouth-coating dried apricot, honey and Sherry notes on top of Balvenie s usual caramel and light peat profile. It finishes flavorful, though with a distinct burst of alcohol warmth. 

Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey · 375ml

Fireball brings a bold cinnamon taste and a whisky kick in a 375ml bottle. It is an easy size to bring to a gathering, pour over ice, or mix into a simple drink when you want cinnamon to lead.

Producer Description

A cinnamon whisky. Dr McGillicuddy's Fireball starts with the unmistakable taste of cinnamon and ends with a fiesty kick of whisky. It is great as a shot, on the rocks, with cola or cranberry juice or in one's own creation.

Producer Description

Serving Ideas & Details

Serve as a chilled shot, over ice, or mixed with cola or cranberry juice, as suggested in the producer description.

• Product: Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey
• Flavor: Cinnamon
• Size: 375ml

Johnnie Walker · Red Label · Blended Scotch Whisky · Scotland · 1.0L

Johnnie Walker Red Label is the world’s best-selling Scotch whisky — a title earned through more than a century of blending expertise and an unwavering commitment to bold, characterful flavor. The Walker family built Red Label as a whisky for the world: drawing on malts from across Scotland’s four great whisky regions — Lowlands, Highlands, Speyside, and the Islands — to create a blend of universal appeal that holds its character whether served neat, on the rocks, or in a long drink. A flavor the Walker family has never compromised on. Now in a generous 1.0L format — the smart choice for the home bar.

Bold and characterful on the nose with smoky, spicy, and fruity notes. On the palate, it is robust and warming — vanilla, dried fruit, and a signature smoky finish that shines through even when mixed. Versatile, consistent, and built for every occasion from a Friday night G&W to a classic Highball.

• Producer: Johnnie Walker (Diageo), Scotland
• Style: Blended Scotch Whisky
• ABV: 40% (80 Proof)
• Regions: Lowlands, Highlands, Speyside & Islands
• Format: 1.0 Liter
• Tasting Notes: Smoke, spice, vanilla, dried fruit, bold and warming finish
• Serve: Neat · On the rocks · Highball with soda · Whisky & ginger · Classic cocktails

Blended Scotch Whisky — the world’s #1, bold and characterful across four Scottish regions. Built for mixing, built for sharing. 1.0L.

Producer Description 

GlenDronach 12-Year-Old epitomizes our unyielding dedication to the mastery of our craft. Matured in fine Pedro Ximénez and Oloroso sherry casks from Andalucía in Spain, this richly sherried Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky presents smooth vanilla, soft fruits and a memorably long, nutty finish, for which it has become renowned. This smooth scotch is bottled at 43%, non-chill filtered and natural in colour.

Producer Description 

Imagining the ultimate single malt whisky for mixing, we worked with top bartenders to craft a sweeter and richer Glenmorangie, perfect for enjoying in all manner of drinks.

To achieve our whisky’s wondrous cascade of taste, we draw on our epic array of casks. And so our freewheeling single malt comes to life, with swirling aromas of pear and vanilla setting the stage for rich orange sherbet and fudge. X by Glenmorangie is wonderful mixed with any flavour you choose (and as you’d expect, it is also delicious neat.

Produce Description 

Duncan Taylor was originally based out of Glasgow where they were merchants and brokers of Scotch whisky casks. They have been laying down casks from distilleries all over Scotland for decades and now have one of the largest privately-held collections of rare and vintage Scotch Whisky.

Islay is a great place to make whisky if you were living in the 1800s. Remote but great water and barley. In 1815 Laphroaig was founded by brothers Alexander and Donald Johnston. Donald tragically died in 1847 after falling into a vat of hot pot ale at the distillery. It became famous in the early 1900s as it became released as a single malt. It has always been known to produce a heavily peated style.

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It is extremely rare to find Laphroaig in independent bottlers and what a great whisky this must be if from Duncan Taylor! 

Johnnie Walker Aged 18 Years blends big, classic Johnnie Walker flavors with intriguing contemporary notes of citrus and fragrant almonds. Initially sweet with a warm vanilla undercurrent and a suggestion of tangerines, it moves smoothly over the palate into a nutty, malty dryness before a long finish brings elegant suggestions of soft charcoal smokiness and a beautifully fading citrus zest. 

Producer Description 

After 14 years maturing in casks that previously held Bourbon, malt master Brian Kinsman finishes this Scotch Whisky in deep charred new American oak barrels from Kentucky for a rich, sweet and vibrant malt.

Expert Review

Wine Enthusiast 90 Points | Aged 14 years in former Bourbon barrels, this is an amber-colored whisky that s scented with vanilla and peach. The palate is also peachy, highlighted by hints of almond, oak and sandalwood. The finish is drying and lightly spiced.

Producer Description 

Johnnie Walker Red Label is currently the world's best-selling Scotch Whisky. It's known for its bold and characterful taste, that's shines through even when mixed. It's a flavour the Walker family has never compromised on.

The Walker family have used their knowledge of Scotland's Malts to create a blend that has universal appeal. This has played a pivotal role in Red Label becoming one of the world's favourite Scotch whisky's. It's developed for an export market that has a taste for long, refreshing drinks. Red Label can be enjoyed neat, on the rocks or combined with a favourite mixer.

Expert Review 

The Dalmore 12 is recognized as a whisky with character far beyond its age. The spirit is initially matured in American white oak ex-Bourbon casks, yielding soft vanilla and honey notes. A proportion of the spirit is then finessed in pinnacle Sherry casks, including 30-Year Old Matusalem Oloroso casks, exclusive to The Dalmore, to give the whisky a rich, nutty character. 

Dewar's White Label Blended Scotch Whisky — Scotland 1.75L

Dewar's White Label is one of the world's best-selling Scotch whiskies — and for good reason. First created over a century ago by Dewar's master blender, White Label is built around a core of Aberfeldy single malt, one of the Highlands' most honeyed and characterful distilleries, blended with approximately 40 different whiskies to achieve a consistent, approachable, and genuinely satisfying dram. The 1.75L format is the smart buy for households and entertainers who go through a bottle with any regularity.

The whisky pours a warm amber gold. The nose opens with honey, ripe peach, green apple, and cut hay — fresh and inviting. On the palate, it's medium-bodied with vanilla fudge, a touch of smoke, toffee, heather honey, and gentle oak. The finish is good length, with cut herbs and a lingering honeyed sweetness that makes it endlessly sippable. Equally at home neat, on the rocks, or as the backbone of a Highball or Rob Roy.

"White Label contains around 40 different whiskies in the blend, with Aberfeldy at its heart." — Dewar's

• Producer: Dewar's, Aberfeldy, Scotland
• Style: Blended Scotch Whisky
• Core Malt: Aberfeldy Single Malt
• Blend: ~40 whiskies
• ABV: 40%
• Size: 1.75L
• Tasting Notes: Honey, peach, apple, vanilla fudge, toffee, heather honey, oak, herbal finish
• Best Served: Neat, on the rocks, Highball (with soda), or Rob Roy

The world's most trusted blended Scotch in its most generous format — Aberfeldy-driven, honeyed, and built for sharing.

Expert Review

Tasting Panel 94 Points | Smooth and toasted with pronounced vanilla notes; silky and balanced yet lush and intense. A gorgeous iteration from Americas top whiskey brand.
Producer Description 

Producer Description 

Charcoal mellowed matured in handcrafted barrels with a balance of sweet and oaky flavor. 

Aberlour · 12 Year Double Cask · Single Malt Scotch · 750ml

Aberlour 12 Year brings rich, spicy, and sweet notes together in a double-cask single malt. The supplied producer description highlights seasoned sherry butts and traditional oak influence, creating a subtly balanced, complex whisky.

Character & Style

The producer’s description centers on richness, spice, and sweetness rather than specific fruit or spice flavors. Sherry-cask and traditional-oak influence shape the profile, making this a bottle to explore slowly in the glass.

Producer Description

Aberlour 12-Year-Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky combines rich, spicy, and sweet notes. The double cask maturation process plus seasoned sherry butts and traditional oak influence the subtly balanced flavor of this rewardingly complex spirit.

Serving Suggestions

Try a small pour neat, allowing time in the glass to explore its balance. Add a few drops of water to taste, or serve over a large ice cube. Consider pairing with aged cheese or dark chocolate.

Spirit Details

• Distillery: Aberlour
• Style: Single malt Scotch whisky
• Age: 12 years
• Expression: Double Cask
• Origin listed: Speyside, Scotland
• Cask influence described: Seasoned sherry butts and traditional oak
• Bottle size: 750ml
• Producer profile: Rich, spicy, sweet, and subtly balanced

Producer Description 

Compass Box Artist Blend is a tribute to Edinburgh and all of the painters and performers, writers and restaurateurs, who call it home. Scotland’s capital city and Scotch whisky are both ideal platforms from which to create beautiful things.

The vibrancy of Artist Blend will please the palates of the most discerning single malt enthusiasts, while exacting bartenders will appreciate its versatility.

About Jameson Irish Whiskey

The world's best-selling Irish whiskey, Jameson was originally distilled in Dublin when John Jameson founded his distillery in 1780. Today it is produced at the highly versatile Midleton Distillery in County Cork, Ireland. The Jameson range comprises a comparatively high percentage of pot still spirit, giving it greater character and complexity than many other Irish whiskeys.

Tasting Notes

The nose offers an inviting combination of floral notes, orange, toffee, sherry, and spice. Water releases cooked fruits and a suggestion of linseed. On the palate, initially citric with classic Irish oiliness, deeper notes of sherry develop alongside fudge, vanilla, and warm spice. The finish is long, warming, and spicy — remaining smooth and oily to the very end.

Serve & Enjoy

Perfect neat, on the rocks, or as the foundation of a classic Jameson & Ginger, Irish Coffee, or Whiskey Sour. Approachable for newcomers and rewarding for seasoned whiskey drinkers alike.

Product Details

Bottle Size: 1.0L
Style: Blended Irish Whiskey
Region: County Cork, Ireland
Distillery: Midleton Distillery
ABV: 40% (80 Proof)
Founded: 1780

Kilchoman was founded in 2005 on the remote western shore of Islay — the first farm distillery built on the island in over 124 years. Anthony Wills set out to make whisky the old-fashioned way: growing barley on site, floor malting a portion of the production, and distilling in small batches with an obsessive focus on quality over volume. In just two decades, Kilchoman has become one of the most exciting names in Scotch, earning a devoted following among those who believe Islay deserves more than one or two great distilleries.

Machir Bay is their flagship — named after the two kilometres of wild, wind-swept beach on Islay’s west coast where turbulent Atlantic seas meet stunningly beautiful sunsets. A vatting of bourbon and sherry cask maturations, it is designed to showcase the full Kilchoman character: peated, coastal, and layered. The nose opens with lemon zest, vanilla, and a distinct maritime influence, giving way to floral intensity, juicy peach, and pear. The palate is generous — tropical fruit, dried sultanas, warming smoke, honey, malt, and butterscotch. The finish is long and complex, with sherry-soaked fruit, cracked black pepper, sea salt, and waves of citrus sweetness underpinned by maritime peat smoke.

“The dramatic coastal landscape of Machir Bay is reflected in the rugged complexity of this award-winning single malt, the flagship of the Kilchoman range.” — Anthony Wills, Kilchoman Founder

• Producer: Kilchoman Distillery, Islay, Scotland
• Style: Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky, Peated, NV
• Casks: Bourbon barrels & sherry casks (vatted)
• Character: Heavily peated, coastal, maritime
• Size: 750ml
• Tasting Notes: Lemon zest, vanilla, white peach, pear, tropical fruit, honey, butterscotch, warming smoke, sea salt, cracked black pepper
• Finish: Long, coastal peat smoke with citrus sweetness and sherry fruit
• Serve: Neat or with a few drops of water to open the smoke

Farm distillery, wild coastline, award-winning peat — Machir Bay is Islay whisky with something to say.

Producer Description 

Created in partnership with Nick Offerman, Lagavulin Offerman Edition 11 Year Old Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky is a woody and peaty, fruity and spicy offering. The woody, peaty notes lead from the front, gently tingling the tongue in a cha-cha before fading to reveal a veritable waltz of sweet berry and orchard fruit notes. Aged in a mix of refilled and rejuvenated American Oak barrels, this whisky demands to be served in a traditional whisky glass, neat or with a little water.

Carrying on a 200-year-old tradition of distilling excellence, the Lagavulin distillery is said to be one of the oldest distilleries on Islay. Founded in 1816 by farmer John Johnston and later led by Peter Mackie in 1890, the name Lagavulin was to become the last word on the delicacy of Islay malts. Miles and miles of peat bog in the west of the island provide the raw material which imbues the barley with their iconic smoky flavor, and the rich peaty water from the tranquil Lochan Sholum in the hills above the distillery makes the flavors so unique. It takes time, but patience is their finest virtue and rushing good whisky is just not how they take care of things in Islay. 

About High West Bourbon

High West Distillery, based in Park City, Utah, is celebrated for its artful blending of straight bourbon whiskeys sourced from America's finest distilleries. This expression — a blend of straight bourbon whiskeys — showcases High West's signature approach: combining complementary barrels to create a bourbon that is greater than the sum of its parts. Approachable, flavorful, and distinctly Western in character.

Tasting Notes

Light caramel and sweet vanilla open the nose with inviting warmth. Rich and earthy on the palate with well-balanced flavors of candy corn, honey nougat, and sweet cornbread biscuits. The finish delivers vanilla with a hint of caramel apple — smooth, lingering, and satisfying.

Serve & Enjoy

Excellent neat, on the rocks, or in cocktails. Its balanced sweetness and approachable profile make it ideal for a Whiskey Sour, Old Fashioned, or simply enjoyed straight.

Product Details

Bottle Size: 750ml
Style: Blended Straight Bourbon Whiskey
Region: Utah, USA
Distillery: High West Distillery
ABV: 46% (92 Proof)

Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky | Port Ellen, Islay / Scotland
Size: 750ml  |  Non Chill-Filtered

Ardbeg is one of Islay’s most legendary distilleries — a remote, windswept outpost on the southern shore of the island that has been producing some of Scotland’s most intensely peated single malts since 1815. For devotees of smoky whisky, Ardbeg is a pilgrimage destination; for everyone else, it is a revelation.

An Oa (pronounced “an-OH”, named for the Oa peninsula at Islay’s southern tip) is the most approachable expression in the Ardbeg range — and the most deliberately rounded. Its singular character comes from time spent in a bespoke oak Gathering Vat, where whiskies from multiple cask types — sweet Pedro Ximénez, spicy virgin charred oak, and intense ex-bourbon — are brought together to harmonize before bottling. The result is Ardbeg’s hallmark peat and dark chocolate, mellowed by a delectable smooth sweetness: aniseed, silky butterscotch, black pepper, and clove, rising to an intense crescendo of flavor. Non chill-filtered, as it should be.

“A dram with smoky power, mellowed by a delectable, smooth sweetness. Hallmark Ardbeg peat, dark chocolate and aniseed are wrapped in smooth, silky butterscotch, black pepper and clove, before rising to an intense crescendo of flavour.”
— Ardbeg Distillery

Casks: Pedro Ximénez · Virgin charred oak · Ex-bourbon · Gathering Vat finishing
Non chill-filtered
Serve: Neat or with a few drops of water to open the peat. Pairs with dark chocolate, smoked meats, or aged cheddar.