My whisky odyssey had started in Campbeltown and Springbank’s open day would be a hard act to follow on an ordinary trip but I was heading to the peat-lover’s homeland for ‘FEIS ILE’. More commonly [...]
Sorry there are no photos. There seems to be a minor glitch in our comms. We’re trying to fix it and will post pretty pictures as soon as. Over to Paula. * It’s Thursday,20th May 2010. I left Edinburgh at 6:15am [...]
Islay Festival 2010 is looming and it is now known what limited goodies two Diageo-owned Islay distilleries have in store for thirsty visitors. From Lagavulin there is a single European oak cask filled in August 1994, bottled [...]
My final day of what has been a revelatory trip to Islay. The day got off to a relaxed start with a full continental breakfast (thank you James) and a quick clean up. I felt like such a freeloader that the least I could do [...]
A pretty good night’s sleep- got woken briefly by the malt lorries at 6am. Shot down to Port Ellen to get cash (again) and a thank-you present for the staff and returned to find I’d missed the morning tour – [...]
