Port Askaig 19 Year Old 2011 Edition

Port Askaig 30 Year Old

The Port Askaig 30 Year Old comes in a beautiful wooden chest, which explains part of the 450 EUR price tag, I suppose. Having said that, you do not often see Caol Ila at this age. Only in 2014 did we see the release of an official 30 years old Caol Ila… for 600 EUR. But is this one a Caol Ila? Rumor has it that this might be another Ileach… The...

Score 88/100

Port Askaig Cask Strength

This is the last of the three malts I bought on my holiday travels at the recommendation of the gents working at Nicks Wine Merchants. He said that if I liked any of the Caol Ila offerings, I would like this. Immediately upon opening the bottle I am hit with the similarity. The Port Askaig has a similar vegetative mossy peat smell that hits as...

Score 87/100

Port Askaig 10th Anniversary 10 Year Old

The chaps at MOM say: This expression of Port Askaig was bottled in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Port Askaig series, and rather fittingly, it's also 10 years old! The whisky was sourced from an unidentified Islay distillery, based near the village of Port Askaig from which the brand obviously takes its name. The liquid was drawn from...

Score 89/100

Port Askaig 30 Year Old

Port Askaig was launched in 2009 by Specialty Drinks Ltd., produced for The Whisky Exchange, a retailer in the UK. Their current range includes a cask strength bottling as well as a 17yo and a 30yo expression that replaced the previous 25yo bottling. Although officially undisclosed the Port Askaig bottlings are rumoured to be re-brandings of Caol...

Score 87/100