Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For most people, single malt is associated with Scotland and rye whiskey with America. But those borders have been shifting—the ...

Islay—pronounced eye-la—has been one of Scotland’s whisky heartlands since at least the 1700s. Once a cottage industry, making Scotch here is now big business: global giants Beam Suntory, Diageo, LVMH ...

Produced at Islay’s oldest licensed distillery, the whisky was matured in ex-bourbon and Oloroso sherry casks, then finished ...

A NEW distillery and visitor centre on Islay has had its provisional premises licence unanimously granted by councillors.

Back in May I visited Islay for a press event and was surprised to discover a distillery that I’d never heard of. The small batch distillery in an old lemonade factory was dwarfed by its neighbors; ...

In 1815, on the southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides, the Ardbeg distillery was founded. On an island as small and sparsely populated as Islay, there was a time when a distillery was its own town ...

The operators of a new distillery and visitor centre on Islay will have their application for a provisional licence to sell alcohol at ...

There are men who spend their careers building something for someone else, and then there are men who, late in life, decide ...

Though it may seem like 10 whisky distilleries is plenty for the small Hebridean isle of Islay, the Argyll and Bute Planning Commission has granted permission for whisky company Elixir Distillers to ...