BIG PEAT. BIG SHERRY.
December 2026
Ardnahoe Oloroso Sherry Quarter Cask
Created Exclusively for The Whisky Club
Islay smoke. Single Oloroso Sherry cask. Cask strength of 60.4% ABV. Ardnahoe delivers the goods once again, thick with toffee, stewed fruit and rollicking smoked brisket.
Scotch, Peated, Single Malt
Colour
MahoganyNose
Thick toffee, orange oil, stewed yellow fruit, charred marmalade and caramelised nuts.Palate
Toasted marshmallow, smoked brisket with honeyed sauce with a long-lasting finish of coffee and gooey chocolate caramel fudge.What makes this whisky so special
It’s taken us two years to hunt down an Ardnahoe release for Club Members that tops the distillery’s inaugural launch with us in 2024, and we can only say it’s worth the wait. We’ve snaffled an epic Oloroso quarter cask that’s melt-in-your-mouth good.
Fully matured in a first-fill Oloroso Sherry cask, it delivers toffee, stewed yellow fruits and rollicking smoked brisket with honey sauce, ending with a long-lasting finish of coffee and gooey choc-caramel fudge. Bottled non-chill filtered and without any added colour at natural cask strength of 60.4% ABV, it’s pure Islay single cask magic.
If you couldn’t get enough of the Club’s exclusive Ardbeg Dark Reserve, this takes Islay peat to another level – jacked up with a prime meatiness and that super long finish that’ll take you home and tuck you into bed.
Finding a single cask from Islay on this side of the world can feel like an impossible feat, especially if you want one for under $250. But for Club Members, we’ve hand-selected the biggest peat-Sherry bomb we could find, exclusively for you, and it’s just $210 – an outrageous price for some of the best Islay has to offer.
Ardnahoe Oloroso Sherry Quarter Cask, Created Exclusively for The Whisky Club lands on Friday 4th December. Bottles are strictly limited, so don’t dilly-dally.
The Specs
- Price
- $210.00
- Age
- 6 Years Old
- ABV
- 60.4%
- Maturation
- First-fill Oloroso Sherry quarter cask
- Country
- United Kingdom
Ardnahoe’s History
Ardnahoe distillery represents a new chapter in Islay’s whisky history. Nestled between Caol Ila and Bunnahabhain distilleries on Islay’s rugged east coast, the Scottish family-owned and managed distillery is the newest in the iconic Scottish region — built 15 years after Kilchoman launched its inaugural release.
Stewart Laing and sons Andrew and Scott formed Hunter Laing & Co Ltd, an independent bottling company, in 2013 with a long-held dream to one day make their own whisky. The Laing family has a deep involvement in the whisky industry. In the 1940s, Stewart’s father founded his own independent bottling company. And Stewart has some 50 years of experience in the industry.
“Building our own distillery was a hugely important and long dreamed of step and it’s been a personal ambition of mine ever since I was posted to work on Islay at Bruichladdich back in the 1960s,” says Stewart.
“From finding the perfect piece of land on Islay for the distillery back in 2015 to now seeing our first whisky released, it’s truly the culmination of a lifelong dream for the Laing family.”
In 2016, the family acquired the site on the north of Islay. Construction began the following year and by 2019 Ardnahoe distillery was ready to open its doors to whisky lovers. In May 2024, the first Ardnahoe cask was bottled.
Whisky industry veteran Jim McEwan, arguably the best-known figure in Islay whisky — renowned for his instrumental involvement with Bowmore and Bruichladdich — was brought on as production director in 2017. He was followed by Fraser Hughes, who currently holds the role.
With a strong affinity for Islay and a reverence for its distinctive, peated malt whiskies, reviewers have remarked that Adnahoe distillery stands shoulder to shoulder with its Islay neighbours. The distillery has differentiated itself with its approach to whiskymaking, as the only one using worm tub condensers and Scotland’s longest lyne arms at 24.5 feet.
Since news of the distillery’s inception, Ardnahoe's inaugural whisky has been the most anticipated Scottish release in recent history.
Distillery Facts
- Region
- Islay
- Origin
- Port Askaig, Islay PA46 7RN
- Founded
- 2018
- Water source
- Ardnahoe Loch
- Washbacks
- 4, Oregon pine
- Stills
- 2 (1 wash, 1 spirit)
- Capacity
- 900,000 litres per annum
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