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Laphroaig and Williamson Islay malt side by side If there is one single malt brand that I have changed my mind on most in the past year, it must be Laphroaig. With their very decent core range releases of new 12 and 15 years old expressions, I am looking at the future with confidence. Quality…

Celebrating Islay Jazz Festival with a Lagavulin 2017 The Islay Jazz Festival is starting today, and we join in from afar with tasting a Lagavulin bottled especially for the occasion. I had an old one lying around, bottled in 2017. As we are not exactly spoiled with a million different core range Lagavulin releases, these…

Sherried Longrow 19 years for Bottling Hall Dinner The Bottling Hall Dinner at Springbank is legendary for the fact that it produces a special single cask for attendees. Well, the name Bottling Hall was special this year, previous iterations came from the Malt Barn dinners. We tasted a tremendous one last year, which was a…

Brand new Laphroaig 15 versus Laphroaig 18 For our 450th blog on Long Pour Amour, we are going to compare two Laphroaig single malts with respectable age statements. One is brand new, the other bottled a while longer ago. I am very happy to fill the glasses today, because it seems to me Laphroaig is…

Lagg Small Batch tries on a Manzanilla finish The Isle of Arran now boasts two distilleries, and even though that is still miles and miles behind “whisky island” Islay, it is something to be proud of. The Lochranza single malt better known as Arran has a strong following. The “take no prisoners” peat violence that…

Sinking our teeth into two 28 year old Laphroaigs Laphroaig! Now that is a brand! The distinct green glass bottle, the bright white label, and iodine and seaweed on the palate. When we look at the sales of this Islay classic, there is only blue skies ahead. There is a firm grip on the number…

Happy Lagavulin Day! We drink an Armagnac finish Yes! The Feis Ile Festival of Music and Malt is here again. We kick off the 2026 edition following the same route as previous years, by sampling a whisky according to the allotted day of the festival. Traditionally, Lagavulin opens the celebrations, so here we go! We…

Longrow matured on Oloroso and Manzanilla On this Campbeltown Wednesday, we turn towards a Longrow again. It has been a while, almost a year or so, since we last featured the peated brand made at Springbank Distillery. I believe I cried out for a return to greatness for this beloved hard-hitting single malt. But it…

Fruity and dangerous Loch Lomond variants Not so long ago, I gave into the feeling of nostalgia, and acquired two old Loch Lomond bottles just for aesthetic reasons. The blue tube, blue label no age stated Loch Lomond was a bottle you could get anywhere for an insanely cheap price, in my early days of…