Feis Ile 2018 update. Another day, another dram (or four, or seven). This was another pour sampled at Islay House Hotel and ... wow. This is quite something. It reminded me instantly of Ardbeg Dark Cove, an equally complex combination of sweet, dark fruits (plums), savory meats (ham, or bacon), salt, spice, and smoke. At the end, right on the swallow, an unexpected flourish of ripe raspberries overtook my palate. This dram outshined Lagavulin’s Feis Ile 2017 bottle and SMWS Laphroaig special release for 2017, a 21-year old single cask, both of which we tried on the same night. So, yeah, Kilchoman did something right here.