ISLAY SINGLE MALT SCOTCH WHISKY

The southernmost of the Western Isles was probably the cradle of distilling in Scotland. It was the heart of the medieval Kingdom of the Isles, a centre of learning and the arts, and considerably more fertile than it is today.

Islay malts are famously smoky, although, in truth this applies only to some of them – certainly to the makes from the south part of the island, Ardbeg, Lagavulin, Laphroaig Bowmore and Port Ellen (distillery closed since 1983), and to the northern distillery, Caol Ila, but not to the makes from Bunnahabhain and Bruichladdich, although the latter is now producing a heavily peat malt called Octomore and the medium-peated Port Charlotte. The tiny farm distillery at Kilchoman, which opened in late 2005, plans to produce a smoky maly.

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