Big Peat “All Islay” Blended Malt [Small Batch Christmas 2016]

Cask type: unknown [obviously ex-bourbon + ??]

Age: NAS

Date Bottled: 12.8.2016

Strength: 54,6 % abv

Phenol level: unknown

Number of bottles: unknown

Bottle volume: 0,7 l

Bottle code: L 12 08 16 Batch 74

Barcode: 5 014218 799668

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Big Peat is one of the most famous series of Islay Blended Malts. Produced by the renowned company Douglas Laing & Co. Ltd, Glasgow, it is very popular with whisky collectors, not least because of the original graphic design of the bottles and packaging.

Even though the concept of the series is to combine as many Islay malts as possible in its small batch vattings, the small batch listed here for Christmas 2016 was the only one so far that could call itself an “All Islay” blended malt, as it not only contained Kilchoman whisky for the first time, but also malts from all active Islay distilleries plus a few drops of whisky from the closed Port Ellen distillery.

Some of the Islay distilleries, like Kilchoman, do not sell whisky to independent bottlers or no longer do so. It is therefore likely that this batch will remain an exception.