Supermarket own brands

[peathead]

Hi I'm new to the forum so firstly l will say hello to all, been hanging around reading and learning from the forum for a while so thought I had better join! I like peated malts and have been reading about own brand Islay malts but upon looking at supermarket sites their doesn't seem to be much choice now ? Thanks.

[opelfruit]

Hello!

This may well be the effect of stock shortages. Most supermarket stuff was provided to the supermarkets by independent bottlers, the IBs are probably having a hard time getting new stock from distilleries at the moment I'd imagine. If you think the major players are killing off their entry level whiskies (10/12yo) and replacing with NAS then they are not going to be selling any aged stock to IBs.

Any IB bottling for a supermarket would need volume, lots of volume. Not sure how much they carry of their own aging stock to do this.

Sainsburys used to do a great 12yo unchillfiltered islay, bottled by Ian macCleod I think. Not seen it near me in ages though
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[TheWM]

If you get the chance to get a bottle of Aldi's peated Glen Marnoch, you could do a lot worse. Waitrose also do a decent Islay number, but double the price of Aldi's version.

[peathead]

Thanks for the replies recently bought ileach and finlaggan to try so far so good, cheers.

[sorren]

I always found Asdas own and sainsburys own brands fairly decent, although never had the islays version I'd expect them to be decent too..

[Gregor]

Aldis Islay malt is pretty good for the price.