Lightly Peated

TWE Whisky of the Year

Preamble – In which I witter on about the event I struggle with the idea that there is such

We visited Islay in March and so, with a well deserved reputation for always doing things in a timely manner,

The air is soft and misty – a gentle grey subduing and merging the colours, making them pastel and low

Suddenly out of the empty landscape there are two big, dark green, metal warehouses beside the road – odd and

Any industrial process needs some form of quality control and so to the tasting. We were offered was the Triple

As I have already said this was a very good visit and if it had ended normally we would have

The plan is to go to Ardbeg for lunch (always a good idea) but before you get there, right next

Bowmore was the first distillery on Islay to spot the potential of whisky tourism and open up their doors. As

There is something intriguing about the Bruichladdich, distillery buildings that is hidden by the customary white paint. According to Andrew

Although we couldn’t go on a tour of the distillery because of the maintenance work it was not a complete