is, as we’ve mentioned more than once before, one of the best distilleries in all of Scotland, making moderately smoky that strikes the perfect balance between bourbon barrel maturation and sherry cask influence. The distillery’s latest release is another success, a new cask-strength single malt that uses peat from the Orkney peninsula where it is located to infuse the spirit with a very specific type of smokiness.

is located in the town of Kirkwall in Orkney, the northernmost part of Scotland that is at the same latitude as the very southern tip of Greenland, for point of reference. People have been making whisky there in one form or another for the past two centuries, and still tries to pay tribute to its founder, Magnus “Mansie” Eunson. The bottles have had Viking-themed names and desi

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