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The peatiest dram on Islay — and the most celebrated.
Islay's only farm distillery. Intimate, authentic, unmissable.
Opened 2019 — already turning heads with its unpeated spirit.
Port Charlotte was built in 1828 as a planned village for a distillery that opened the following year and fell silent almost a century ago — its old warehouses are now a nature centre and a youth hostel instead.
Islay's biggest village, and the start of the road that has Laphroaig, Lagavulin and Ardbeg on it — not a postcard stop, a working one.
Bowmore is Islay's capital in every sense but name — its shops, its school, its hospital, and its oldest distillery, all on the harbour where the whole village runs downhill to meet it.
Nine of the ten rooms look straight out over Loch Indaal, and the bar downstairs pours more Islay and Jura whisky than most places twice its size.
Twelve rooms each built around one of Ardbeg's own stories, a complimentary distillery tour, a nightly Whisky Hour, and a restaurant built on what Islay itself produces.
Golf on your doorstep by day, a firepit and the whole Atlantic sky by night — The Machrie doesn't try to be anywhere else.
A 150-year-old coaching inn in Islay's most central village.
Planning a trip to Islay? Here's what you really need to know about ferries, flights, weather, taxis and travelling to Scotland's famous whisky island — without the surprises.
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Islay's distillery names look impossible until you know their Gaelic roots. A quick, honest guide to saying them right — and the stories behind each one.