As you may have noticed from the flurry of whisky posts, the end of May saw Feis Ile, the music and whisky festival on the sparkling Hebridean island of Islay. A small island with eight distilleries squeezed onto it, all flinging their doors open and welcoming the hoards inside. I blogged each open day as… Read more »

Ardbeg marked the final day of the Islay Festival; in common with Lagavulin at the start of the week it was a little quieter than other distilleries, as some people had early flights or ferries to catch. Happily, we had a late afternoon sailing! Rather cunningly, as well as the distillery open day, Ardbeg declared… Read more »

From the oldest distillery on Islay to the youngest; Kilchoman was founded in 2005, and on our first visit barely a year later they obviously didn’t have any whisky for us – they did however have an excellent little cafe with some tasty cake instead. Fast forward a few years and the cafe (and cake!)… Read more »

The half way point of the week marks the open day of Bowmore, Islay’s capital and home of the oldest official distillery on the island. The day was a relatively low key affair, once you fought your way past the enormous queue of folks buying the festival bottling. We didnt stay for the whole day,… Read more »