Port Ellen Distillery

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...

Ardbeg is the Ultimate Islay Malt – a whisky that’s worshipped around the world. The Distillery closed in 1996 and was reopened. Author: Caroline Porsiel Read more...

Bowmore is the First Islay Single Malt, we’ve been making Bowmore here since 1779. Bowmore’s famous No 1 vaults hold some of the World’s most revered spirit slowly maturing within the thick walls with the Atlantic waves crashing against them. Author: Caroline Porsiel Read more...

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...

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...