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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

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Welcome to the 2024 edition of the Feis Ile bottles guide!

And what do you know? This year we’re celebrating the 10th edition of this guide – a full decade of very informative guide!

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:

29/05/2024 – Added Bowmore Feis Ile 2024 Open Day Single Cask bottle
26/05/2024 – Added Jura Feis Ile 2024 bottle
25/05/2024 – Added Ardnahoe Feis Ile 2024 bottle
23/05/2024 – Added Finlaggan and Islay Mist Feis Ile 2024 bottles
22/05/2024 – Added Elixir Elements of Islay Feis Ile 2024 bottle
14/05/2024 – Added The Single Cask Friends of Feis 2024 bottle
14/05/2024 – Added Lagavulin and Caol Ila Feis bottles
09/05/2024 – Added Bruicladdich ROCK‘NDAAL Feis bottles
07/05/2024 – Added Dramfool Feis bottle and a few more SMWS festivals bottles
06/05/2024 – Added Big Peat Feis bottle
29/04/2024 – Added Bowmore festival bottle, more details on Mac-Talla bottle
25/04/2024 – Updated all Bunnahabhain festival bottles, Added Kilchoman Feis bottle details
21/04/2024 – Some details on Mac-Talla Feis bottle and first SMWS festivals season bottle
12/03/2024 – Initial update with Ardbeg, Laphroaig and Bunnahabhain festival bottles

Let’s get to the list of Feis Ile 2024 bottlings and the available information, all sorted by Festival dates:

Lagavulin – Open day on Saturday 25th May 2024

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Welcome to the 2023 edition of the Feis Ile bottles guide!

The festival is back to normal operation for the 2nd year in row after the COVID-19 years.

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:

04/06/2023 – Added A few single casks and more details for various bottles
19/05/2023 – Added Bruichladdich Official Feis Ile bottle
16/05/2023 – Added Dramfool Official Feis Ile bottle
15/05/2023 – A couple of updates and added Elements of Islay Feis Ile bottle
03/05/2023 – Added Jura Feis Ile bottle
02/05/2023 – Added Lagavulin, Caol Ila and Douglas Laing Big Peat Feis Ile bottles
01/05/2023 – Added Bowmore Feis Ile bottle
27/04/2023 – Updated SMWS and Ardnahoe bottles and filled up a few more details for existing bottles
24/04/2023 – Initial (and late published) update with Ardbeg, Laphroaig, Bunnahabhain and some indie bottlers

Let’s get to the list of Feis Ile 2023 bottlings and the available information, all sorted by Festival dates:

Lagavulin – Open day on Saturday 27th May 2023

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Welcome to the 2022 edition of the Feis Ile bottles guide!

This year it seems like the festival is returning to almost normal operation with daily negative COVID-19 results or with vaccination proof along with masks for indoor events.

What does it means for festival bottles? I think it’s safe to assume that some distilleries will retract the ability to buy them online, making them available for those who travels to the island. I do hope that it will be a hybrid model with an allocation available for festival visitors and an allocation to sell online but only time will tell.

Anyway, as usual bookmark this post as this post will detail all the available information on the festival bottles and will be update each time more details will be revealed.

Updates:

06/06/2022 – Added Jura, surprise Bunnahabhain 1989, Ardbeg single cask, Octomore Valinch and Finlaggan bottles and a few missing info bits of Feis Ile 2022 bottes.
27/05/2022 – Added Bruichladdich Feis Ile 2022 bottes
20/05/2022 – Added Hunter Laing Kinship 2022 bottes
12/05/2022 – Added Islay Mist Feis Ile 2022 botte details
09/05/2022 – Added Douglas Laing Feis Ile 2022 botte details
05/05/2022 – Added Caol Ila and Lagavulin Feis Ile 2022 bottes details
03/05/2022 – Added all Bowmore Feis Ile 2022 bottes details
28/04/2022 – Added all Bunnahabhain Feis Ile 2022 bottes details
20/04/2022 – Added Kilchoman Feis Ile 2022 botte details
17/04/2022 – Dramfool celebratory bottles for the Festivals season
07/03/2022 – SMWS celebratory bottles for the Festivals season
30/01/2022 – Initial update with Ardbeg, Laphroaig and Bunnahabhain bottles.

Let’s get to the list of Feis Ile 2022 bottlings and the available information, all sorted by Festival dates:

Lagavulin – Open day on Saturday 28th May 2022

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Welcome to the 2021 edition of the Feis Ile bottles guide!
Once again, this year the festival goes virtual as the Covid-19 pandemic is still raging around the world and surely no big crowds will be allowed in such public events.
This post will detail all the available information on the festival bottles and will be update each time more details will be revealed.

Updates:

06/06/2021 – Add Bunnahabhain Surprise Feis Ile 2021 bottle
26/05/2021 – Updated Laphroaig Cairdeas 2021 bottle price and availability date
26/05/2021 – Added Lagavulin and Caol Ila Feis Ile 2021 bottles (H/T Ruben of whiskynotes.be)
19/05/2021 – Added Bruichladdich Feis Ile 2021 bottles
19/05/2021 – Added Jura Feis Ile 2021 bottle
12/05/2021 – Added Bowmore Feis Ile 2021 (or maybe 2020?) bottles
29/04/2021 – Added second Bunnahabhain Feis Ile 2021 bottle
27/04/2021 – Added the first Bunnahabhain Feis Ile 2021 bottle
20/04/2021 – Added Kilchoman Feis Ile 2021 bottle
21/03/2021 – Added Laphroaig Cairdeas 2021 bottle
28/02/2021 – Added SMWS Caol Ila bottle
08/02/2021 – Initial update with Ardbeg and a few SMWS bottles

So here’s the list of Feis Ile 2020 bottlings and the available information:

Ardnahoe – Open day on Friday 28th May 2021

• No Feis Ile bottling

Lagavulin – Open day on Saturday 29th May 2021

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Welcome the 2020 edition Feis Ile bottles comprehensive guide!

Once again we’re starting early (before we turned the calendar page to 2020) as we gathered enough information to share with you.

In 2020, the festival will run from 22nd May 2020 to 30th May 2020.

This post will detail all the available information on the festival bottles and I’ll update it each time more details will be revealed.
If you look for the full festival information, go to the Festival site at islayfestival.com (But best to wait until Spring 2020 to see the 2020 updates) and you will be able to find the full Islay Festival Distillery Programmes 2020 here when it will be published.

Once again It’s a safe bet that just like in previous years, we will have a lot of Feis Ile bottlings from independent bottlers, even if many will not be using the trademarked ‘Feis Ile’ name – all will be updated in the post when the information will be released.

Updates:

02/06/2020 – Added Big Peat 8 Year Old bottle

01/06/2020 – Updates to Lagavulin and Caol Ila sections
31/05/2020 – Updates to Bunnahabhain and SMWS sections (Thanks Surya!)

05/05/2020 – COVID-19 impact update

Well, in the last few months a lot had happened. “Thanks” to the COVID-19 (Corona) virus, the Feis Festival was cancelled and most of the distilleries in Scotland were shutdown (some are shutdown for over 5 weeks and counting). This of course impacts the Feis Bottlings availability and I’ve finally updated the current list (including what was cancelled).

25/12/2019 – Updated Laphroaig Festival bottling
09/12/2019 – Initial release with SMWS and Ardbeg sections

So here’s the list of Feis Ile 2020 bottlings and the available information:

Lagavulin – Open day on Saturday 23rd May 2020

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Yeah, Welcome the annual Feis Ile 2019 edition. I didn’t expect to work on this list so early (we’re still in 2018!) But information has already started to trickle out so that left me no option but to fire up this post
In 2019, the festival will run from late May into June 2019 (24th May to 1nd June 2018).
This post will detail all the available information on the festival bottles and I’ll update it each time more details will be revealed.
If you look for the full festival information, go to the Festival site at islayfestival.com (But best to wait till Spring 2019 so the site will update) and you will be able to find the full Islay Festival Distillery Programmes 2019 here when it will be published.
It’s a safe bet to assume that just like in previous years, we will have a lot of Feis Ile bottlings from other independent bottlers and other sources, even if many will not be using the trademarked ‘Feis Ile’ name – all will be updated in the post when the information will be released.
Updates:

02/06/2019 – Added a few Ardbeg and Caol Ila Feis Ile 2019 Single Casks
30/05/2019 – Added Kilchoman Feis 2019 bottle
30/05/2019 – Added Bwmore surprise Devils Cask Hand-fill Feis Ile 2019 bottle
26/05/2019 – Added Islay Mist Feis Ile 2019 bottle
26/05/2019 – Added Bruichladdich Feis Ile 2019 Valinch bottle
26/05/2019 – Added the third Bunnahabhain Feis Ile 2019 bottle and updated info for others.
26/05/2019 – Updated Hunter Laing Kinship 2019 bottles info
24/05/2019 – Added the Islay House Feis Ile 2019 bottle
24/05/2019 – Added the second Bunnahabhain Feis Ile 2019 bottle
24/05/2019 – Added Lagavulin and Caol Ila Feis Ile bottles
21/05/2019 – Added Loch Fyne Whiskies Islay Whisky Festival 2019 bottle
20/05/2019 – Added first Bunnahabhain Feis Ile 2019 bottle
17/05/2019 – Added Bruichladdich Feis Ile 2019 bottle details
16/05/2019 – Updated Laphroaig Cairdeas bottle details.
13/05/2019 – Added Hunter Laing Kinship 2019 info
02/05/2019 – Added Dramfool and initial info on Kilchoman Feis bottles
29/04/2019 – Added Bowmore Feis bottles (HT @RatherBeOnIslay)
28/04/2019 – Updated Big Peat and Finlaggan Feis 2019 bottles
15/02/2019 – Added Laphroaig Cairdeas bottle
03/12/2018 – Added SMWS Laphroaig bottle
22/11/2018 – Initial relase with SMWS and Ardbeg sections
So here’s the list of Feis Ile 2019 bottlings and the available information:

Lagavulin – Open day on Saturday 25th May 2019

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Yeah, it’s this time of the year, the time for the annual post of the Feis Ile Festival bottles, especially when we finally see some information out there.
This year, the festival will run from late May into June 2018 (25th May to 2nd June 2018).
This post will detail all the available information on the festival bottles and I’ll update it each time more details will be revealed.
If you look for the full festival information, go to the Festival site at islayfestival.com and you can find the full Islay Festival Distillery Programmes 2018 here when it will be published.
It’s a safe bet that just like previous years, we will have more Feis Ile bottlings from other independent bottlers and other sources – all will be updated in the post when the information will be released.
Updates:

25/05/2018 – Bruichladdich and Cooper’s Choice and Islay House Festival bottles were added
23/05/2018 – Lagavulin and Caol Ila Festival bottles were added
21/05/2018 – Kilchoman Festival bottle was added
17/05/2018 – Dramfool Festival bottles reviewed
13/05/2018 – Finlaggan Festival bottle was added
02/05/2018 – Spirit Still Festival bottle was added
01/05/2018 – Douglas Laing Big Peat Feis bottle was added
29/04/2018 – Dramfool Festivals bottles were added
27/04/2018 – Updated SMWS section
22/04/2018 – Bowmore Feis Ile 2018 bottles were added
19/04/2018 – Bunnahabhain Feis Ile 2018 bottles were added
11/04/2018 – Possible Bruichladdich Feis Ile 2018 bottling info was added
08/04/2018 – Hunter Laing line up added
06/03/2018 – SMWS Caol Ila added

So here’s the list of Feis Ile 2018 bottlings and the available information:

Lagavulin – Open day on Saturday 26th May 2018

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Spring is almost upon us (or already upon us as far as I’m concerned) and you know what does it mean, right? Yes, time for the annual post of the Feis Ile Festival bottles.

This year, the festival will run from late May into June 2017 (26th May to 3rd June 2017) and unlike the previous two years, there will be no special celebrations this year, just a “normal” festival but still it will be a exciting festival.

This post will detail all the available information on the festival bottles and I’ll update it each time more details will be revealed.

If you look for the full festival information, go to the Festival site at islayfestival.com and you can find the full Islay Festival Distillery Programmes 2017 here when it will be published.

It’s a safe bet that just like previous years, we will have more Feis Ile bottlings from other independent bottlers and other sources – all will be updated in the post when the information will be released.

25/05/2017 Update: Bruichladdich bottle updated and added Loch Fyne Feis Ile Laphroaig
25/05/2017 Update: Lagavulin and Caol Ila bottles updated.
23/05/2017 Update #2:  Thanks to Pascal from www.heartofspirits.de we have further information on Bunnahabhain and Kilchoman bottles. They sounds nice!
23/05/2017 Update: Elements of Islay Ar9! I think we now know all about the independent bottles for Feis 2017 🙂

So here’s the list of Feis Ile 2017 bottlings and the available information:

Lagavulin – Open day on Saturday 27th May 2017

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