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Ailsa Bay: Keeper of the Lowland malt whisky soul Ailsa Bay is the mammoth distillery owned by the William Grant & Sons company, also known for their mega brands Glenfiddich, The Balvenie and Monkey Shoulder. Founded in 2007, the distillery is often overlooked in the categorisation of 21st century distilleries. Of course, churning out 12…
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Arran 30 years old bottled by Cadenhead’s As time moves on, we also see more and more mature whisky from distilleries that at one point were the new cats in the Scottish landscape. But the Lochranza Distillery on the Isle of Arran, formerly known as the Arran Distillery of course, has been distilling since 1995.…
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Auchentoshan with an injection of oloroso sherry Auchentoshan recently rebranded their bottles and I must say: they could not have gone much uglier with their presentation. They are not unique in the approach that was chosen. The overly simplified labels we have seen on Benromach and Glencadam (where I do think it has some flair)…
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Ardbeg Trudernish 15 years old: a first look! With the Anthology series, Ardbeg already gave us a taste of what the distillery can do with the middle-aged stock in their warehouses. Now the brand new Ardbeg Trudernish 15 years old is introduced as a core range bottling. On top of that, we get a more…
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Ardnamurchan Whiskybase, new make and sherry! Whiskybase released a single cask bottling especially for their members/shop. We need little reason to dedicate a blog to one of the more consistent and high-quality new wave distilleries in Scotland. As regular readers know, we recently launched a new concept on Long Pour Amour called the New Make…
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An Aberlour bored to pieces by a sherry cask Independently bottled Aberlour used to be a rare thing, but leave it to the wizard at Signatory to uncover something in the vast maturing stocks in those warehouses near the Edradour Distillery. This is where Signatory built their headquarters over twenty years ago. I have already…
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Ardbeg 2000: back in time to when ‘young days’ The biggest news to come from Ardbeg in the past year must have been that Jackie Thomson decided to move on, after being connected to the distillery for almost 30 years. She is going to help out creating the visitor experience at the brand new Portintruan…
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Tasting rare Ardnahoe releases for Feis Ile 2026 The ninth distillery on Islay has taken its rightful place between the other facilities, with quite a few impressive releases already. Even though Feis Ile bottlings of the distillery sell out like they are Harry Styles concert tickets, we still manage to get our hands on some…
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Aberfeldy: sherry monster versus 1970s elegance Recently, I got my hands on an older sample of the Aberfeldy Distillery. Normally, I would build a blog around that, with some background, before leading up to such a sample. However, I got my hands on a very recent Aberfeldy as well, so why not combine the two…
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Discovering chemistry between Arran and Sauternes In my Malt Whisky Yearbook 2026 I looked near Ardbeg and Ardmore but did not find Arran. I guess I still have to get used to looking up this distillery under the name “Lochranza”. Anyway! The Isle of Arran single malt can still be found under a recognisable name,…