Although he has been a Friend of Laphroaig for more than 10 years, Harry Williams of Wolverhampton, England, made his first journey to the Islay-based distillery only last summer. With him, he carried ...

A lot of new single malt releases these days seem to have one thing in common: They undergo a barrel finish of some sort, a secondary maturation period in a cask that formerly held wine or sherry or ...