Port Ellen has unveiled its oldest whisky yet, the 46-year-old Prism, created for Sotheby’s Distiller’s One of One auction, ...

A SUPER rare bottle of whisky is set to fetch up to £300,000 at auction. A collector’s item from Port Ellen Distillery, which ...

On Islay’s southern coast, there’s a point where the Atlantic mist mingles with the slow curl of peat smoke, and it’s in that atmospheric borderland that Ardbeg has been telling one of its more ...

Islay is the center of the peated whisky world, and most fans regard Lagavulin 16 as the quintessential Islay malt. It’s been a licensed distillery since 1816, and while it makes several other ...

There's no denying that Kirkland's Islay Single Malt Scotch is a bona fide Islay whisky. The peatiness is evident from the get-go, as are the signature notes of sea salt and iodine.

Islay is not easy get to, usually requiring multiple flights, a long drive and a two-hour ferry ride, yet enthusiasts continue to make the pilgrimage, especially for the whisky festival.

Today, there are over 120 distilleries across five regions (Campbeltown, Highland, Islay, the Lowlands and Speyside). And business is booming as a whisky renaissance continues to take hold in America.

This article is more than 7 years old. When the announcement was made in 2016 heralding the construction of a new distillery on Islay, the whisky world got excited.