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Douglas laing rock oyster review.
In 2018 douglas laing rebranded its rock oyster whisky to rock island.
Rock island regular 10yo and 21yo by douglas laing review flight the whisky formerly known as rock oyster.
The first batch of rock oyster cask strength must have made quite an impression as the folks at douglas laing have gone and released a second batch.
Douglas laing rock oyster image via douglas laing rock oyster has the distinction of being a blended malt meaning the whisky in the bottle is the product of blending whiskies which begin their lives as single malts from individual distilleries without the introduction of other grain whiskies.
Joining douglas laing s range of blended malts in early 2015 rock oyster is a magnificent maritime marvel made with single malts distilled on scottish islands including orkney jura arran and islay.
All are bottled at 46 8 abv with the obvious exception of the cask strength and as with all of douglas laing s releases they are without colouring or chill filtration which is to be applauded.
Created from 100 island whiskies the rock oyster whisky is another remarkable regional malts creation by douglas lang that leverages only single malts in the blends never grain.
Back in april douglas laing re branded the islands expression of its remarkable regional malt range as rock island.
Apparently oysters have a negative connotation to some people and they feared it put off consumers.
Certainly like to keep things in the family and that includes the family of rock oyster whisky that just keeps on growing now with the release of rock oyster batch 2 cask strength edition.