With the "Seasonal Releases", Lochlea reflects what happens on the farm with the changing of the seasons. The Ploughing Edition is the first peaty Lochlea bottling - and the first smoky whisky for John Campbell after Laphroaig. The single malt was matured in a combination of ex-islay casks and peaty quarter casks. The result: a perfect dram for the cold season with flavours of sweets, baked fruits, nuts and lingering Islay peat. The inspiration for the latest bottling in the annual series was the long winters on the farm where Scotland's national poet Robert Burns lived from 1777 to 1784. It is the season for ploughing the fields that Burns once farmed in preparation for spring sowing. With its ice-blue label, Lochlea also reflects the frosty winters on the west coast of Ayrshire. Tasting Notes: Nose: Baked fruit with light peat smoke in the background. Palate: Sweets, cooked apple and Brazil nuts. Finish: Lingering fruit and nuttiness, infused with a hint of Islay peat smoke.

Now the permanent core release from the farm distillers is here. Lochlea Our Barley is the result of the cask recipe perfected by John Campbell and a blind tasting with the distillery team. The single malt Scotch whisky from the Lowlands is matured in a sophisticated combination of first fill bourbon barrels, Oloroso sherry butts and STR barriques, i.e. "scraped" or "shaved", "toasted" and "recharred" wine casks. At an ideal drinking strength of 46% vol., the whisky leads from pear syrup and fruit sweets on the nose to fresh fruit and cereal notes on the palate to macadamia nuts and orange beeswax.