Bruichladdich #laddieMp5 Live Tasting

Bruichladdich really push the concept of terroir. The term comes from french wine production and refers to the location of where the produce comes from and how vital that is to the success of the product. To prove their point they developed the Micro Provenience series of single cask bottlings. The concept was very much […]

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Islay Photographs 1902-1960

Following on the World War II history around the Islay airport I spent an afternoon doing some research on old old Islay. I came across a really fascinating resource from the University of St Andrews and the photographic collection it has digitised online forms the basis of the content for this article. If you wish […]

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Bunnahabhain 18 Year Old

Continuing on around the coast from yesterday’s Bowmore review we arrive at the northern end of the island and the Bunnahabhain distillery. Having relatively recently adopted a more craft presentation it will be interesting to compare to yesteday’s Bowmore entry bottling. The Distillery Bunnahabhian was a purpose built distillery from 1881. The joint venture between […]

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Islay and RAF Port Ellen

So while doing some background research on the Bowmore Distillery for the review of their Small Batch bottling I started reading about the local airport. I have spent so many hours looking at the pictures and reading articles that I have decided to write my own post about the subject. I really really love the […]

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