Bowmore Distillery

The award-winning brewery on the Hebridean Isle of Islay. Author: Caroline Porsiel Read more...

We are Progressive Hebridean Distillers. Our aim is to create the most thought provoking whisky possible. We believe in terroir and in a wholly natural product, un-chill filtered and colouring free, hand crafted and bottled at our distillery in Islay. Author: Caroline Porsiel Read more...

The Kilchoman Distillery is a distillery that produces single malt Scotch whisky on Islay, an island of the Inner Hebrides. Kilchoman was founded in 2005, it is a farm distillery and proportion of the barley used in production is grown and malted at the distillery. Kilchoman gives everyone the opportunity to see all that is best in the grass-roots traditions Read more...

Port Ellen Distillery used was founded in 1825. It continued in production throughout the 1970s and was closed in 1983. Stocks of Port Ellen whisky are now owned by Diageo; due to the closing of the distillery, its whisky is becoming more and more collectable. Author: Caroline Porsiel Read more...

Nestled in a hidden cove near Port Askaig, the Caol Ila (pronounced ‘Cull Eela’) distillery sent its whisky to market by sea for over a hundred years. Author: Caroline Porsiel Read more...

The distillery opened in April 2019 and was the first new whisky distillery to open on Islay for 15 years. The distillery was opened by Lord Robertson of Port Ellen. The distillery initially was built with a £12M investment from Hunter Laing & Company, a Scottish family-owned whisky business. The site covers four acres (1.5 hectares) and the management team Read more...

There are 3 main ingredients for making Laphroaig – Barley, Water, and Yeast, but the secret ingredient is the people. Laphroaig (La-froyg) is the story of a community. An uncompromising, tough and determined group of people who work to ensure that this defining whisky has always remained true to its origins. These origins can be found in Islay itself – Read more...

The Lagavulin distillery was built a year after neighbours Laphroaig and Ardbeg and almost a century before the Malt Mill distillery was erected on the grounds of Lagavulin. Lagavulin Single Malt Scotch Whisky has been made in a picturesque huddle of buildings on Lagavulin Bay. Perhaps the most beautifully situated of distilleries, Lagavulin makes arguably the most intensely flavoured, smoky Read more...