Càirdeas—Gaelic for “friendship”—is a special bottling for the Friends of Laphroaig, a group of superfans of this Islay distillery known for producing very smoky whisky. But the bottles in this ...

A lot of new single malt releases these days seem to have one thing in common: They undergo a barrel finish of some sort, a secondary maturation period in a cask that formerly held wine or sherry or ...

If there’s one constant among the elder statesmen scotch whisky distilleries, it’s that they tend to begin with a proud family history. So it was with Islay peat-masters Laphroaig, founded in 1815 by ...

Although I’ve developed quite an appreciation for high-quality Scottish single malt whiskies in the last few years, writing about the segment for Paste with more and more frequency, there’s still a ...