Welcome to the 2025 edition of the Feis Ile bottles guide!

Although The first revision of this page was published on April 1st, this is not a joke post… It’s merely the 11th edition of this informative page.

As usual it’s recommended to bookmark this post as this page will detail all the available information on the festival bottles and will be update each time more details will be revealed.

 

Updates:

27/05/2025 – Added multiple single casks and distillery exclusives (Laphroaig, Bruichladdich, Lagavulin)
22/05/2025 – Added Ardbeg Distillery Exclusive bottle and Jura Feis Ile 2025 bottle
19/05/2025 – Added Big Peat Feis Ile 2025 bottle
12/05/2025 – Added Bruichladdich Feis Ile 2025 bottles
07/05/2025 – Added Ardnahoe Feis Ile 2025 bottle
24/04/2025 – Added Lagavulin and Caol Ila Feis Ile 2025 bottles
23/04/2025 – Added some Bunnahabhain and Mac-Talla Feis Ile 2025 bottles
15/04/2025 – Added some Bowmore Feis Ile 2025 bottles
01/04/2025 – Initial update with Ardbeg, Laphroaig and Kilchoman festival bottles

Let’s get to the list of Feis Ile 2025 bottlings and the available information, all sorted by Festival dates:

Lagavulin – Open day on Saturday 24th May 2025

• Lagavulin 15 Year Old Moscatel Finish Fèis Ìle (55.7%, £240, 1,596 bottles)

This year, Lagavulin is inviting fans to discover new depths of flavour with Lagavulin Fèis Ìle 2025 15 Year-Old. Finished in Moscatel de Málaga casks, this expression showcases a masterful balance of sweet and spicy notes while retaining Lagavulin’s distinctive smokiness.

This rich and complex bottling offers aromas of salted toffee, and ripe berries, interwoven with maritime medicinal undertones. The palate is luxuriously smooth and creamy, harmonising flavours of sweetness, salt, spice, and smoke. It culminates in a long, drying finish with that lingering fragrant Lagavulin smoke and a captivating note of Sichuan pepper spice.

 

• Lagavulin 12 Handfill Madeira Cask (53.3%, £140)

Bruichladdich – Open day on Sunday 25th May 2025

• Octomore 15 Year Old (54.9%, £300, 2500 bottles)

Octomore Polyphonic is 15 aged years (youngest cask in the mix) and bottled at 54.9% ABV with a price of £300, limited to 2,500 bottles.

The oldest Octomore expression released to date. Octomore Polyphonic is a masterpiece comprised of some of the most iconic Octomore expressions of the past – further aged in cask beyond their original bottling – and exceptional spirit from single casks which have never been released. All brought together in perfect harmony.

• • 2005 first fill Grenache single cask: unreleased and peated to 167.6 PPM.
  • 2007 first fill bourbon barrel: The ‘Octomore of Octomore’. This spirit was distilled from the first ever peated malting of barley grown on Octomore Farm, and featured in Rock’ndaal 01.1 Fèis Ìle 2022. Peated to 173.8 PPM.
  • 2009 second fill Sauternes single cask: unreleased and peated to 208 PPM.
    Octomore 6.3: The original 6.3 spirit, aged in Bourbon and Syrah casks, has been further aged in second fill bourbon barrels. Peated to 258 PPM.
  • Octomore Masterclass 8.2: various wine casks and recasked into first fill Amarone for one year before bottling. The original 8.2 spirit has been further aged in refill bourbon barrels. Peated to 167.4 PPM.
  • Octomore Masterclass 8.4: virgin oak casks, peated to 170 PPM.
  • Octomore Event Horizon, Fèis Ìle 2019: an exclusive bottling for Fèis Ìle 2019, matured in Oloroso and PX sherry casks. Peated to 162.6 PPM.

 

 

• Port Charlotte 19 Year Old Single Cask (53.3%, £275, 667 bottles)

Port Charlotte Single Cask – Rock’ndaal 2025 Edition. 19 aged years with a strength of 53.3% ABV. It is full term maturation in a Moscatel sherry cask, limited to 667 bottles, priced £275.

 

 

 

 

• Bruichladdich ROCK’NDAAL Valinch 15 Year Old Feis Ile 2025 (61%, £80, 905 bottles, 500 ml)

Cask 3069, 2nd fill Oloroso Butt, Distilled 14.09.2009

 

 

 

 

Caol Ila – Open day on Monday 26th May 2025

• Caol Ila 8 Year Old Fèis Ìle 2025 (55.8%, £110, 1,476 bottles)

In a bold new move, Caol Ila is introducing an exciting new dimension of flavour with Caol Ila Fèis Ìle 2025 8 Year-Old. This whisky has been matured in a unique combination of refill casks and Pedro Ximénez /Oloroso-seasoned casks, before being finished in new Colombian Oak casks.

The result is a burst of bold yet harmonious flavours. As whisky expert Charles MacLean puts it, “even at reduced strength, the taste is intense!”. This release explores Caol Ila’s waxy character, delivering an intensely smooth, oily texture and a richer, unexpectedly sweet profile emerging from the Colombian Oak cask finish. The whisky’s complex smoke is amplified by layers of spice notes and peppery warmth.

Laphroaig – Open day on Tuesday 27th May 2025

• Laphroaig Cairdeas 2025 Lore Cask Strength (59.6%)

The Laphroaig Cairdeas 2025 is another cask strength edition of a core lineup bottling. This year it’s Lore.

 

 

 

 

• Laphroaig Single Cask 2011 for Feis Ile 2025 (56.1%, £350, 278 bottles)

In addition to this Feis Ile 2025 single cask, there are three more Distillery Exclusive single casks available now during Feis Ile 2025:

• • Laphroaig 2011 #1079 13 Year Old (53%, £325, 279 bottles, Oloroso)
  • Laphroaig 2007 #2461 18 Year Old Quarter Cask (40.6%, £350, 119 bottles)
  • Laphroaig 2009 2227 16 Year Old Quarter Cask (43.4%, £350, 123 bottles)

 

Port Ellen – Open day on Tuesday 27th May 2025

No Port Ellen Feis Ile bottles yet (of course) yet but during the Fèis Ìle festival, Port Ellen will offer a limited number of places for flavour-led distillery experiences.

Visitors can also experience the journey of experimentation first hand and taste the initial results of the Atlas of Smoke project.

The experience will also offer guests historic samples of Port Ellen releases, as well as explore new collaborations.

Tickets for Port Ellen’s experiences are available at the distillery’s website. Prices range from £40 (US$53) to £600 (US$796).

Bowmore – Open day on Wednesday 28th May 2025

• Bowmore Feis Ile 2025 8 Year Old (£120) 

Oloroso Single Cask #3766, 100% floor malted barley, distilled 27/05/2016

• Bowmore 2012 Single Cask journey (£150)

Distilled 2012  and matured in Virgin Oak casks

Ardnahoe – Open day on Wednesday 28th May 2025

• Ardnahoe 6 Year Old Feis Ile 2025 (59.8%, £85, 1,116 bottles)

Aged for six years in first-fill Bourbon barrels, this limited release of 1,116 individually numbered bottles is offered at its natural cask strength of 59.8% ABV and is priced at £85.

This release will be available only at the distillery on Wednesday 28th May, limited to two bottles per customer.

Kilchoman – Open day on Thursday 29th May 2025

• Kilchoman 100% Islay Feis Ile 2025 Madeira (57.5%, £97.5, ~615 bottles)

The Fèis Ìle 2025 release is a vatting of two refill Madeira hogsheads, distilled in 2015 and bottled at natural cask strength. This single farm single malt was produced with barley grown and malted at Kilchoman, lightly peated to 20ppm

Bunnahabhain – Open day on Friday 30st May 2025

• Bunnahabhain Feis Ile 2025 Release: Turas Math No. 1 15 Year Old (55.9%, £150/€160/$189.99)

15 Year Old unpeated Bunnahabhain, A mix of Bunnahabhain fully matured in Manzanilla married with Bunnahabhain that spent 10 years in ex-bourbon and then 5 years in Amarone casks.

This one will be available globally in stores that carries Bunnahabhain releases across the world.

 

 

• Bunnahabhain Feis Ile 2025 Release: Turas Math No. 2 Palo Cortado Finish (58.4%)

No Age Statement, aged in ex-bourbon casks and finished in Palo Cortado casks. 1438 bottles.

This is a distillery exclusive bottle so it will be available to the visitors in the distillery during Feis Ile 2025, One can assume that some of the bottles may reach the online store if not all will be sold out during the festival.

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Bunnahabhain Feis Ile 2025 Release: Turas Math No. 3 19 Year Old Armagnac Finish (50.2%)

Another distillery exclusive bottle. Unpeated Bunnahabhain Matured in oak casks and finished in a single, hand-selected Armagnac cask.

 

 

 

 

 

Jura – Open day on Friday 30st May 2025

• Jura 2007 17 Year Old Feis Ile 2025 (55.3%, 300 bottles)

This year’s release is a single cask whisky from cask #1895, distilled on 12 September 2007 and bottled on 3 May 2025. Matured in an unspecified sherry cask and bottled at 55.3% ABV, the release is limited to just 300 bottles, available only at the Jura Distillery during the festival. The price is available on request at the distillery.

According to Joe Ricketts, whisky maker at Jura, this cask continues the story of their 2022 release from cask #1892—a bold Oloroso butt—by extending the maturation period and deepening the profile. The result is a whisky with notes of candied citrus, dried plums, hazelnuts, and layers of polished leather and bitter chocolate, shaped by full sherry maturation.

Ardbeg – Open day on Saturday 31st May 2025

• Ardbeg Smokiverse (48.3%, $120/€110)

A HIGH GRAVITY EXPERIMENT

Created using high gravity mashing, this Ardbeg Day malt is a first for the distillery. From the dense swirl of a highly concentrated wort, our mash tun has given rise to a whisky of monumental proportions. Take a sip and plunge your palate into a fruity, sweet, and utterly absorbing Ardbeg.

By experimenting with High Gravity Mashing, we’ve dialled down the water, cranked up the grist, and packed more grain into the mix than ever before. This process ramps up the sugar in the wort, resulting in a higher gravity measurement than our standard mash. It’s this heightened gravity that has helped unlock this fruitier, more intense Ardbeg. Layers of muscovado sugar, ripe barley, and toasted sourdough bread, culminate in a burst of ripe tropical fruits and sweet peat.

DENSE AND INTENSE

In Ardbeg SMOKIVERSE, energetic aromas of ripe BARLEY and AROMATIC SMOKE make for a turbulent nose. Venture further and discover TROPICAL FRUITS and CLOVE. Finally, PEAT MOSS and BONFIRE EMBERS fuse in a finish that blazes on.

 

 

 

 

• Ardbeg Homecoming (56.1%, £120)

In addition to the Feis Ile official bottling Smokiverse (See above), Ardbeg have a new distillery exclusive bottle for those who pilgrimage to the island and the distillery. It’s a Rum finish Ardbeg

 

 

 

• • Ardbeg Single Cask #3918 2009 14 Year Old (57.9%, £440, 268 bottles)

This soft and floral single cask is the fragrant result of Ardbeg’s first experiment with port casks. The whisky’s story began on Monday 13th July 2009, when its smoky, balanced spirit flowed from Ardbeg’s still. Then with a complex, velvety whisky in their minds, the Whisky Creation Team laid a parcel of spirit down in second-fill port casks, never before used to age Ardbeg. But after 14 years of ageing, one cask’s sweet, floral layers set it apart from the rest.

Combining notes of sugared plums, spearmint and roses with restrained hints of smoke, Cask No. 3918 showcases Ardbeg as never before.

SMWS (Scotch Malt Whisky Society)

Dramfool

• Dramfool Festival Edition Octomore 5 Year Old (58.2%, 22 bottles of 200 ml)

 

 

 

 

 

 

• • Indie Whisky Fèis Ìle 2025 Rhinns 2011 13 year old cask #R11/281-1 (57.8%, £195, 237 bottles)

We can now, finally, say we have bottled every spirit expression distilled by Bruichladdich, completing the set with this ultra-rare Rhinns. Peated to 30PPM,this has matured its whole 13 years in a first-fill bourbon barrel. The subtle and different peat that comes from this spirit sits well within the sweetness of bourbon which compliments rather than combats the flavour. As we learned from Jim McEwan – under whose guide this was of course distilled – the bourbon cask compliments distillery character, not obscuring it, so subtlety and flavour still shine through.

Our official Feis Ile 2025 release the cask released 237 bottles at natural cask strength of 57.8%.

• Dramfool’s Gold : Port Charlotte 21 years old (60.5%, £395, 142 bottles)

We are delighted to have our second edition of the Dramfool’s Gold release finally ready for the world to enjoy. Fully matured in a first-fill Oloroso sherry hogshead, cask #661, 21 year old Port Charlotte none the less!!

This goes without saying, but let’s say it anyway. Look at that colour! Of course all natural!

This has been a hugely active cask imparting a wonderful flavour and sweetness from the Oloroso, and yet even after more than two decades, still retaining a strength of 60.5%.! While the angels didn’t take too much of the strength since 2003, they helped themselves to the liquid as the hogshead only gave up 142 bottles.

A wonderful whisky of which we were of course delighted to share and launch officially at Feis Ile 2025 where, no surprise!, it went down extremely well.

• Dramfool Bruichladdich 2002, 22 years old, cask #1231 (54.1%, £280, 122 bottles)

It has been a while since we released an old Bruichladdich, and to release one at 22 years old is a first for us. Distilled in 2002 in the very early days of the revival of Bruichladdich – this is liquid history!

Spending its whole maturation in a single first-fill bourbon barrel, this is as pure an expression of early Bruichladdich at two decades old that we can remember. The true character of the reborn spirit shines through, as Jim reminds us a distillery powered by people, passion and time – not computers!

Bottled at natural cask strength of 54.1% with an outturn of only 122 bottles, this surely wont last long!

Douglas Laing

• Big Peat 2010 15 Year Old Feis Ile 2025 (50%, £70/€89.90)

Bottled to commemorate the annual Fèis Ìle, Big Peat brings his story back to where
the journey first began – the unique island Big Peat calls home, Islay. Maturation in
Refill Hogsheads allows our Big Peat spirit to shine, further enhanced by the unique
distinction of being a 2010 vintage

Tasting Notes
Our Fèis Ìle 2025 Edition delivers the classic Big Peat profile of sweet smoke, briny
oceanic character and notes of sugary kelp, coal dust, chimney soot and damp
bonfire ash – concluding with “his” anticipated long-lasting smoky BBQ character.

Mac-Talla

• Mac-Talla Feis Ile 2025 Amarone Cask (54.3%, £78)

The limited-edition bottling showcases a distinctive finishing process using first-fill Amarone casks sourced from Italy’s prestigious Valpolicella region.

Amarone della Valpolicella is renowned among wine connoisseurs for its concentrated flavors, developed through the traditional appassimento method where grapes are air-dried before fermentation.

This whisky underwent 18 months of finishing, combining spirit from one first-fill Amarone butt and one partial refill European oak butt. The marriage was then returned to Amarone casks for an additional six months of maturation.

This bottle will hit the shelves May 16, 2025

Elixir

• Campfire – Feis Ile 2025 Elements of Islay (54.5%)

The Elements of Islay Campfire completes the limited edition “ Fire Trilogy” and was released especially for Fèis Ìle 2025. It combines three distinctive single malts from the north and south coasts of Islay to create a complex blended malt, matured in Pedro Ximénez and Oloroso sherry casks , first-fill bourbon casks and toasted fresh oak casks .

Its aroma is inspired by the idea of ​​cozying up around a campfire and roasting s’mores: notes of ginger cookies , dark chocolate with candied orange , and toasted marshmallows characterize the complex flavor. A whisky that impressively combines smoky warmth and sweet depth.

The Single Cask

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Finlaggan

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Islay Mist