What better way to visit the distilleries on Islay and Jura than on foot? Dominic Roskrow and a Whisky Magazine team have done just that
If you’ve ever followed the coast tour of Port Ellen on Islay and visited the distilleries of Laphroaig, Lagavulin and Ardbeg you’ll know what a special experience it is.
If you do it on foot after two solid days of walking, rowing cycling and you’re accompanied by a raggle-taggle posse of distille...
By Dominic Roskrow
from Issue 55 published on 14/04/2006
The Islay Festival is the highlight of the Scotch whisky year. Martine Nouet looks ahead to this year’s activities
The Islay and Jura Festival is not only a true highlight in the whisky lover’s calendar, but it is a particularly generous affair time-wise. It stretches over a week and each distillery has its own prominent, though not exclusive, day.
Here are some of the highlights:
Let’s arouse our senses
All ...
By Martine Nouet
from Issue 39 published on 1/5/2004
Brian Palmer, editor of Islay’s local paper and lead drummer in the pipe band, gives a unique, teetotaller’s view of the island’s whisky festival
Every year, Italy, France and Spain hold three-week national cycling tours, despite the amount of traffic disruption and financial outlay that such
tours involve. And the reason that they are so keen to continue to do so, apparently, is that the television coverage allows them to show off almost eve...
By Brian Palmer
from Issue 33 published on 25/9/2003
Martine Nouet describes the highlights visitors can anticipate at this May’s Islay Whisky Festival
A distillery visit a day keeps the blues away in the merry, merry month of May.
For the third year, the Islay Malt and Music Festival is fully ready to welcome crowds of whisky pilgrims from the world over. Growing numbers of enthusiasts have already booked distillery tours and special tastings. Th...
By Martine Nouet
from Issue 31 published on 9/6/2003
Brian Palmer, whisky Magazine's first ever tee-total contributor, reveals the Ileach view of Islay's famed annual whisky celebration
It’s a fact not lost on many visitors to Islay that those of us who live here have the ‘benefit’ of being surrounded by malt whisky
distilleries, some of the most famous in the world, and that it is possible to meet with a manager or two in the supermarket on a Saturday morning. An Islay malt whisk...
By Brian Palmer
from Issue 25 published on 16/8/2002
