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in Argyll and Bute.

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Argyll and Bute

The whisky coast.

Argyll and Bute has whisky on almost every shore. On Islay, distilleries line the shores, making the peated malts the island is famous for, and across the Sound, Jura makes its own whisky and rum. Campbeltown has three working distilleries from its great days, and Oban and Tobermory have old distilleries by their harbours. Take the ferry, and choose a driver.

Bowmore Distillery→
Oban Whisky and Fine Wines→
Bunnahabhain Distillery→
Ardbeg Distillery→
Nc'nean Distillery→
Bruichladdich Distillery→
Oban Distillery→
The Whisky Island Gallery and Studio→
Deer Island Distillery→
Laphroaig Distillery→
Tobermory distillery→
Lagavulin Distillery→
Distillery of the day1 hour ago

Isle of Jura Distillery.

The whisky distillery in Craighouse, founded around 1810 and brought back to life by the islanders in 1963.

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Autumn38 minutes ago

What Tobermory distillery looks like in autumn.

One of Scotland's oldest working distilleries, founded in 1798 at the end of Tobermory's Main Street, with tours and a shop.

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Did you know5 minutes ago

Bunnahabhain can keep up to 900 tonnes of malt on site.

Its mash tun, one of the biggest in Scotland, takes up to 15 tonnes at a time. Most of what it makes is unpeated.

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Distillery tours you can book.

From the mash tun to the cask, and a dram at the end of it.

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Springbank Distillery.

In Campbeltown the first reference to whisky, or ‘Uisge Beatha’, Gaelic for water of life, was recorded in writing in 1591. Around this time, the Mitchell Family arrived in the area from the lowlands. Their ancestors went on to open Springbank in Campbeltown in 1828, making it one of the oldest family-owned distilleries in Scotland, now in the hands of the fifth generation. Each of the three single malts is produced entirely on site.

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An old prophecy on the Isle of Jura said the last of the Campbells, who founded its distillery, would leave penniless and one-eyed, and in 1938 it came true.

Members of Clan Campbell founded the Jura Distillery in Craighouse in 1810, and the family held a strong influence over the island and its land up until the 1930s. The prophecy said the last of them would leave with nothing, and blind in one eye. In 1938 the last Campbell, Charles, left Jura with no money, having lost the sight of one eye to a war injury, just as had been predicted. The distillery, closed by then, was brought back by a group of islanders and opened again in 1963, and it later named a peaty, salty single malt Prophecy after the old island tale.

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QuizJust now

Springbank distillery in Campbeltown was officially founded in 1828. What had its site been used for before that?

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Meet Konrad, owner of The Whisky Island Gallery and Studio

Meet Konrad, owner of The Whisky Island Gallery and Studio Hidden Scotland interviews Konrad, owner of The Whisky Island Gallery and Studio

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Until a road was built in 1960, the only way to reach Bunnahabhain was by sea.

The pier in front of these cottages was the distillery's link to the outside world, and it went on being used until 1993.

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Bowmore Distillery.

The distillery on the shore of Loch Indaal in the middle of Bowmore, with tours, tastings and a whisky bar.

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Cold enough for a dram.

8° and clear in Argyll and Bute: the still house is the warmest room in the county.

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True or falseJust now

True or false: most of the whisky made at Bunnahabhain, on Islay, has always been bottled as Bunnahabhain single malt.

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