Or: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Caol Ila.  The name “Smokehead” suggests something altogether coarser, but it shares Caol Ila’s elegant seaside quality.  It’s $40 cheaper than Caol Ila 12YO, so isn’t too expensive to use in cocktails – makes brilliant Rob Roys, hence the very low levels of the front bottle.  I don’t agree with comparisons to Ardbeg, since Ardbeg has an iodine flavour that I don’t like, and this doesn’t have that.  Has taken over from Black Bottle as my preferred peated blend.

**Apologies for the hiatus, moved house then it took an absurdly long time to get internet connected again.  Regular Yarra Drams resuming forthwith!