The Islay Hotel
18 Charlotte Street
Port Ellen
Isle of Islay
PA42 7DF
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Islay Drams
Tel: 01496 300109
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All whiskies are served at our
standard measure of 35ml.
Islay Malts
Ardbeg 10 yr £4.80
Peaty nose burnt wood and citrusy pear flavours. Powerful whisky from a Bourbon barrel.
Ardbeg Uigeadail £6.90
Bourbon and Sherry casks marry together creating a well-rounded dram with caramel and toffee flavours.
Ardbeg Galileo £12.50
Ardbeg Serendibity 12yr £14.20 Ardbeg Blasda £7.80
Least peaty of the Ardbeg range, Blasda is light and floral yet perfectly balanced, still capturing Islay’s fine elements.
Ardbeg Corryvreckan £9.20
Matured in Bourbon barrels and new French oak casks. Rich and oily it still contains the Smoky peat flavours as well as Christmas spice.
Ardbeg Still Young (8yr) £35.00
Wood smoke and fruity notes combine with peat, and create a creamy and treacly dram.
Ardbeg 1974 – Spirit of Scotland £37.00
Slightly bitter tasting initially with notes of Islay peat, this deep amber coloured dram then continues with notes of toffee and caramel on the palate.
Ardbeg 1978 – Cadenheads £43.00
Tasting notes welcome
Ardbeg 1976 £60.00
Unique malt straight from a single sherry cask, and bottled at cask strength. This dram begins with a coffee liquor nose and follows with a fruity palate, with a short enjoyable finish.
Bowmore Legend £5.40
On the nose a hint of peat with a splash of sea air, on the palate bold zesty lemon and honey.
Bowmore 12yr £4.70
Bowmore 10yr (Tempest) £5.60
Warm amber in colour with the Bowmore peatiness and smokiness, this dram has hints of lemon, honey and chocolate.
Bowmore 15yr Darkest £8.60
Full and ripe peachy nose. Well balanced, long, polished oak finish Sherry and smoke and lots of fresh fruit. Complex and stylish.
Bowmore 17yr £10.20
Rounded, firm, malty dram, with tightly combined flavours.
Bunnahabhain 18yr £9.60
A smooth, slightly sherried dram, the epitome of Bunnahabhain’s soft style.
Bunnahabhain Toiteach £9.80 Bunnahabhain 12yr Ltd Edition £16.95 Bunnahabhain 14yr Limited Edition £25.00
John`s Peaty Dram 1997 £18.00 Bunnahabhain 1966 £35.00
A light spirit with immediate fruit, fairly sherried becoming more complex with treacle toffee
Bruichladdich Laddie 10 £6.25
Hints of Bourbon and Sherry combine with the flavours of sultanas and dates to make a medium and smooth whisky.
Bruichladdich Classic £5.95 Bruichladdich Octomore (167ppm) £16.50
Medium weight and well defined for a young Islander. The texture is rich, sweet and mellow and the viscosity of the Sauternes brings balance to the power of the peat
Bruichladdich XX Nostalgia Barolo Feis Ile 2012 £17.30
Tasting notes welcome
Bruichladdich Black Art £18.50
Opening of toasted oak and sweet barley on the nose followed by red fruits merging on the palate with a long joyful finish.
Coal Ila 12year £6.60 Caol Ila Cask Strength £8.80
A medicinal smoky whisky with a smooth light character which then becomes more strong and assertive in the flavour.
Caol Ila (The Syndicates) 20yr £22.00
Coal Ila of this age should be full on coastal, mineral and medicinal with pockets of white fruits, citrus and seashore aromas.
Caol Ila (Frisky Whisky) 27yr £25.00
A marriage of two casks distilled in 1983 and matured for 27 years before bottling in 2010 to produce a spicy and nutty whisky with a peat smoke edge.
Lagavulin 16yr £7.50
A magical dram with dreamy peat and salt.
Lagavulin 1995 Double Matured £8.80
Sweet and luscious this offers coffee and vanilla flavours, with a very long moreish finish.
Lagavulin 1994 Double Matured £9.80
This double matured Lagavulin has had a finishing period in sweet, sticky Pedro Ximinez sherry casks. A whisky that never disappoints.
Lagavulin Jazz 2012 £15.50 Lagavulin (1998) Feis Ile 2012 £15.80
Tasting notes welcome
Talisker Double Matured Distilled 1990 £12.00
Isle of Skye or Isle of Mists among the very greatest whiskies of Scotland, its character has been accented by finishing the malt in sweet Amoroso cask-wood natural hints of
sweetness and rounds out its rugged peaty character.
Glenlivit 18years Pure Single Malt Whisky £12.50
This superb whisky was drawn from a special cask after 18 years. In this time more than a third of the contents have evaporated “gone to the angels” (Angles share) say the Scots. When you enjoy the taste of Glenlivet 18years old take the distiller’s advice: DON’T BE HURRIED!
Inchmurrin Single Highland Malt 10years £5.80
Scotland finest malted barley along with supplies of fresh Highland water from Loch Lomond used in creating Inchmurrin. Subtle undertones and unique round bodied flavour.
The Distillers Choice Rare Speyside Single Malt £4.80
Solid amber in colour, strong fresh barley notes, smooth and firm with an oatmeal dry finish, a very fine dram.
Spirit of Scotland £28.00
Single Malt Highland whisky distilled by Tomatin 1962.
The Malt Whisky Society (Glenfarclas) £35.00
Distilled March 1965 bottled August 2005 is described as “Old but muscular”
Secret Stills Single Malt Scotch Whisky 1989 £14.50
From two sherry hogsheads No.7049 & 7050 distilled on 19 August 1989 bottled in Elgin in June 2006.
Penderyn Single Malt Welsh Whisky £5.30
Handcrafted and Madeira finished by our master distiller at Penderyn in the heart of Wales.
Whiskies of Scotland Aged 20 years £14.00
Vatted Malt Scotch Whisky. A rare blend of single malts from closed distilleries Mosstowie, Glen Mhor, Banff and Glencraig.
Sheep Dip “Old Hebridean” 1990 £4.40
Vatting of Aged Highland and Island single Malt Whiskies. Rich, peaty and smokey Islay malts balanced with the sweetness of aged Highland Malts.
The Singleton Single Malt Scotch Whisky of Dufftown £4.90
12years matured: Long maturation in a unique balance of European and American Oak that gives The Singleton of Dufftown its smooth richly satisfying taste.
First Cask 1972 Speyside Malt Whisky £28.00
Distilled 23rd March 1972. An unblended cask of 31year old
Malt Whisky
Centenary Reserve St Magdalene £23.00
Lowland Malt Distilled 1980 bottled 1995. This whisky encapsulates whisky excellence.
(Rare Malts) Natural Cask Strength
Single Malt 19years £37.00
Distilled 1979 St Magdalene, on tasting, a very aromatic grassy nose entices you into the malty, liquorice – like flavours of an unusually big- boned lowland malt with a surprisingly robust peaty finish.
Loch Dhu (The Black Whisky) 10years £15.00
A fine malt, patiently rested in charred sweet oak casks to create a whisky black as the night. Rich velvety taste with a smooth intense flavour.
MacAllan 10yr £4.50
Matured in a Spanish sherry oak cask, which results in a satisfyingly rich and complex Single Malt.
MacAllan 1861 Replica £38.00
A replica of bottle, nose and flavour of an original bottle by John McWilliam a wine merchant.
Oban Double Matured 1987 £14.00
This Distillers Edition gives you a gentle sweetness and surprising richness on palate and finish, dry delicate cask-wood beautifully enhances Obans distinctive style.
Old Pultney 12years £4.25
With its 12 years maturation period, balanced with a hint of sea air it gives a gentle clean finish.
Vintage 1976, Single Highland Malt Scotch Whisky £30.25
Matured in an Oak Cask for 27years and distilled at Glenugie Distillery.
Knockando £7.80
Distilled in 1990 bottled in 2003 only when its reached its full maturity, a pure Single Malt Scotch Whisky.
Talisker 10years £5.80
The only single malt on The Isle of Skye. An alluring sweet full bodied spirit with a warming afterglow.
Lagavulin Jazz Edition (1993)Feis Ile 2011 £19.25
Tasting notes welcome
Lagavulin 15yr Flaggan £45.00
On the nose, full of peat smoke and toffee sweetness, followed by rich wood influence, citrus and aniseed of the palate with a long full-bodied finish. Rare bottling.
Laphroaig 10yr £4.75
A full bodied whisky with huge notes of smoke, also seaweed, salt and medicinal tones.
Laphroaig Triplewood £4.70
Matured in Bourbon barrels & Quarter casks, then finished in European Oak. This dram is the perfect marriage of Peat, Oak and subtle sherry sweetness.
Laphroaig 18yr £9.80
Typical Island nose,fruiy tang with roasted cereals
Laphroaig Quarter Cask £4.75 Very peaty with a hint of sweetness
Laphroaig Cask Strength £5.95
Medium body with hints of syrup, wonderful complex whisky
Kilchoman Machir Bay £5.50
Sherry sweetness followed by peat smoke and mixed fruits with a long refreshing finish.
Kilchoman Feis Ile 2012 £15.00
Kilchoman Inaugural 100% £18.95
Kilchoman Inaugural 100% 2nd ED £8.75
Port Ellen 25years old £28.00
Tasting Notes welcome
Port Ellen (Scotts) 1981 £20.00
Malts from the rest of Scotland
Aberlour 10year £6.45
A Single Highland Malt Scotch Whisky, which comes from the famous Spey Valley. Matured in a fine balance of sherry and Bourbon casks. Rich, smooth, mellow flavour with aromas of autumn fruits and hints of spices.
Aberlour A’Bunadh) £12.50 (Means “of the origin” in Gaelic)
Matured, exclusively in sherry butts bottled at cask strength, with the, use of modern chill- filtering methods to ensure a dark luxurious and rich whisky.
Arran £4.50
Captures the character of this beautiful islands, clear mountain water and soft sea air.
Auchentoshan £5.80
Triple Distilled lowland Single Malt Whisky. Distinctive flavour is fruity, sweet and delicate with surprising depth of character.
Balmenach 27yrs £18.00
Highland selection Limited Edition 1973 introduces an oakwood note that blends into a vanilla sweetness with a light to medium character it leaves a salt air freshness.
The Balvenie Founders Reserve £32.00
Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky est 1892
The Balvenie Doublewood Matured 12yrs £7.20
First Cask is a traditional Whisky Oak then into an original Sherry Oak thereby acquiring character from each cask.
Black And White Scotch Whisky £4.40 Bushmills Malt 10years £5.95
It’s a smooth rich Single Malt with overtones of vanilla, honey and sherry.
Big Peat £5.25
Islay blended Malt between Ardbeg, Caol Ila, Bowmore and Port Ellen. Historically we would call this – Whisper It – “A vatted malt”, but with a Big Peat Kick.
Dailuaine- Gaelic for- “The Green Vale” £12.50 Connemara £7.80
Pure Pot Stilled from Ireland, with a unique and distinctive flavour from clear spring water combined with peated malted barley and slowly matured in oak casks.
Cragganmore 12years £4.80
An elegant sophisticated Speyside with the most complex aroma of any malt. Astonishingly fragrant with sweetish notes and a smoky malty-ness on the finish.
Dewars special reserve 12years £3.50
A Perthshire Whisky, which has been given the extra step called “marrying” until its robust flavours become one.
Dalivhinnie 15year old Single Highland Malt £5.00
Dalivhinnie comes from the Gaelic word for “meeting place” smooth and clean, it is a mellow, subtle malt, creamy vanilla and heather honey sweetness.
Finlaggan Cask Strength £4.50
Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky. Rich in the aromas of the peat smoke which dried the barley and of Scottish sea shore where it matured.
Campbells 100proof Tomintoul Special £6.50
Highland Whisky produced to the original recipe.
Glenfiddich Special Reserve Single Malt £4.10
12 year old single malt from the Speyside region. containing fruity aromas, with a dash of pear with a touch of pine and subtle peatiness.
Glenfarclas 10year £4.95
Highland malt whisky named The Spirit of Independence. Speyside
The Glenrothes Single Speyside Malt £14.00
Distilled in 1989 it has mellow, oak and dried fruit flavours.
Glenmorangie Single Highland
Rare Malt Scotch Whisky £11.50
A 15year casked in an American white oak barrel, previously used in making bourbon, this giving a mellowness to the sleeping spirit and allows a more delicate flavour and aroma.
Glenmorangie Warehouse 3 Reserve £12.00
Warehouse 3 is the oldest of our original 19th Century
warehouses. That results in an eegant whisky of great finesse with a subtle sweetness, notes of vanilla and a refreshing spiciness.
Glenmorangie (Port Wood Finish) £14.00
Is the colour of antique copper, golden but with a rosy hue. The malt has a complex balance of sweet and dry flavours, bitter chocolate being offset by fresh minty notes. Hints of port and walnut are also evident in the finish.
Glenmorangie Madeira Wood Finish £11.50
The colour of amber with a slight orange hue. The flavour is cool to the palate and spicy on the tongue, fresh and citrus as it passes but with a fiery dry finish. The wine flavours are slight and identifiable; not as sweet as sherry with a distinct tangy character.
Ardmore Highland Single Malt (peated) £4.30
Full and rich, with unique Highland peat-smoke notes.
Springbank 14years Single Malt Scotch Whisky £17.50 Ledaig Single Malt From The Isle of Mull £22.00
This rare old Single Malt Whisky was (1974 Vintage) distilled at the Ledaig Distillery on the Isle of Mull.
