Peat Plants II: The ultimate flight in West Coast peat

Scotland’s landscapes have a bigger influence over the flavours in your glass than you might expect. Peat’s profile can be vastly different depending on what vegetation it’s been formed from, meaning where you cut it can make all the difference when it comes to its role in shaping a whisky’s flavour.

While Peat Plants I offered an insight into this diversity, Peat Plants II hones in on the distinct character of West Coast peat. Peat from Scotland’s Western Isles is renowned for having a higher level of phenol compounds, offering an unmistakable spirit character. Peat Plants II is even more bold and robust than before, where unforgiving flavours of medicinal smoke and salt come to life.

In Scotland’s Western Isles, wind, sea and fire shape whiskies of raw intensity. Drawing from Islay, Mull and beyond, this collection dives deep into the medicinal heart of peat – denser, darker and rich with salt air and smoke. These are elemental drams that howl with coastal character and blaze with untamed spirit.

These are not whiskies that whisper. They shout, smoulder and blaze, echoing the legacy of a land shaped by fire and water. In each bottle, you’ll find a story of isolation, intensity and enduring spirit – the very essence of the Western Isles. Expect flavours of ethanol-soaked bandages, coal sacks in a damp stone cellar, toothpaste in an old tin mug, chimney soot and the smouldering soul of a peat-burning stove on a stormy night.

“This collection celebrates the powerful and medicinal nature of West Coast peat,” explains head of whisky creation Euan Campbell. “We have selected a variety of expressions from Islay along with some similarly robust whisky from the Isle of Mull. These phenol-packed casks cover a spectrum from deeply tropical fruit and smoke through to intense carbolic character. There’s so much flavour diversity to be found in this collection, in both spirit style and cask type. It’s a real celebration of peat.”

The Creators Collection brings liquid storytelling to life, curated to create the ultimate whisky flights. Each release takes inspiration and imagination from the whisky makers, and creative collaborators, to celebrate unique flavour stories, presenting whisky as a creative work of art in beautifully designed one-of-a-kind bottles.

Discover the ultimate flight in West Coast peat.