Completing our little trio of festival bottlings is this Spectacular Ardbeg, and the final of our whisky festivals in May is the legendary Feis Ile (The Islay Festival). If you love to feel like you are licking a bonfire at the same as sticking your head in a BBQ, the Islay Festival is for you! It’s not all about peat, though, with some distilleries on Islay producing unpeated whisky, but for this Ardbeg release, it’s definitely about peat.

For their day at Feis Ile, Ardbeg always has a theme, whether punk or the grooving 60s. This year’s theme is the circus and with that comes this year’s Ardbeg Feis Ile bottling Ardbeg Spectacular. The first whisky from the distillery to ever be aged in port gives smoky pear crumble and cooling menthol with notes of incense candles and antique leather.

– Calum Diack, Quaich Bar Manager