The distillery announced the details of its 16th series today, a collection that literally takes smoky to the next level. This year’s release may not reach the smoldering heights of some of the previous series, but it’s an interesting (and still very heavily peated) trio that will appeal to fans of complex single malt scotch.

The core expression produced at , the Classic Laddie, is actually an unpeated whisky. But the distillery, which is located on Islay (the Scottish region that is famous for its smoky whisky), has a range of heavily peated whiskies as well. This includes and , the latter of which is usually more than twice as smoky as the former. That’s measured in PPM, or parts per million, and some of the barley used to produce these whiskies has been malted to nearly 200 PPM—but the

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