FEIS ILE SPECIAL BOTTLING & JUNE PREVIEWS

Celebrating our return to the Islay Festival of Music and Malt this week, we’re unveiling a special bottling with a highly desirable label, 127.44 ‘Cantina Mexicana’. Feel the fiesta as peat dances with Amontillado sherry to produce a ‘snout grabbing’ beast of a dram. Available online today for pre-order (dispatched Wed 1 June), it won’t be around for long; order now to secure yours. Love sweet more than peat? Explore our June previews… (Please note WhiskyIntel was not able to publish the in time…all the more reason to join the Society today!)

Peated

127.44 Cantina Mexicana
The nose was snout-grabbing – woody, like old sea chests or a dusty Mexican cantina floor (including leather boots and fag-ends), lots of liquorice; figs and oriental spices…
Cask: Second fill ex-oloroso butt
Age: 12 years
Price: £120
Special Label Feis Ile Bottling!
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For dispatch Wed 1 June

Sweet, fruity & mellow

36.100 Aristocratic pretensions
The nose balances syrup sponge and brown sugar with pear-drops, green apple and bitter lemon. The palate is clean, gentle and relaxing…
Cask: Refill ex-bourbon barrel
Age: 18 years
Price: £68.70
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G4.8 Spinning honey
A wonderful raw, strong and vibrant scent greeted the Panel; varnished wood, painting in oil, drying herbs and spinning honey…
Age: 36 years
Distilled: 28 May 1979
Price: £126.80
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Juicy, oak & vanilla

5.50 Golden Delicious
Caramel apple crumble pie and a Swiss cinnamon liqueur on the nose neat, with the fizzy dry mouthfeel of a ‘zero-dosage’ Champagne…
Cask: Second-fill Sauternes hogshead
Age: 15 years
Price: £67.20
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Lightly peated

42.24 The bee’s knees…
Sea salted caramels, churros with salty peanut sugar and bitter chocolate on the nose neat, followed by an amazingly sweet, salty and smoky sensation on the palate…
Cask: Refill ex-bourbon barrel
Age: 9 years
Price: £59.40
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*Please note: This is a limited release from June’s Outturn, full release on Friday 3 June.

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