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Distillery tours
in Argyll and Bute.

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Tastings on Islay and Kintyre.

Distillery tours are one of the great pleasures of Argyll. On Islay, you can visit distilleries on Loch Indaal, by Port Ellen and on the Sound of Islay, and a family-run farm distillery that grows its own barley. Campbeltown's distilleries show how the town once made more whisky than anywhere, and Jura's welcomes visitors in Craighouse. Book ahead in summer, as tours fill fast.

Tobermory distillery→
Laphroaig Distillery→
Lagavulin Distillery→
Isle of Jura Distillery→
Kilchoman Distillery→
Ardbeg Distillery→
Caol Ila Distillery→
Nc'nean Distillery→
Bunnahabhain Distillery→
Oban Distillery→
Bowmore Distillery→
Springbank Distillery→
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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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Did you know18 hours ago

Some of Bunnahabhain's single casks are bottled by hand at the distillery and sold only there and online.

They are drawn from dunnage warehouses on the shore and bottled at cask strength, without dilution or chill-filtering.

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Did you know17 hours ago

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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Quiz17 hours ago

How do you say the name of Bunnahabhain distillery, on Islay?

Tours16 hours ago

Laphroaig Distillery.

The Kildalton distillery of 1815 on a rocky bay east of Port Ellen, with its own malting floor.

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Quiz15 hours ago

How do you say the name of Oban, the west-coast town and its distillery?

Did you know14 hours ago

Bunnahabhain distillery on Islay pulled down its warehouses on the shore to make way for a visitor centre.

Bunnahabhain was built in 1881 in a remote bay on the Sound of Islay, the strait between Islay and Jura. In 2017 its owners, Distell, announced £11 million to upgrade its 'scruffy' appearance and turn it into a 'world-class whisky destination'. The three-year programme began in 2019 by demolishing the warehouses along the shoreline, the first step towards a new visitor centre.

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Tours13 hours ago

Lagavulin Distillery.

The distillery of 1816 on Lagavulin Bay, beside the ruins of Dunyvaig Castle, making deeply peated malt.

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Did you know13 hours ago

Oban distillery is a five-minute walk from Oban railway station, at the end of the line from Glasgow.

The train from Glasgow Queen Street takes a little over three hours, and the distillery stands in the middle of the harbour town, so it is one of the easiest in Scotland to reach without a car, and without anyone having to be the driver.

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Quiz12 hours ago

Springbank single malt, made in Campbeltown, is distilled how many times?

Lunch11 hours agoIsle of JuraThe Jura Hotel Restaurant6.3 milesIsle of IslayPeatzeria9.6 milesIsle of IslayBowmore Hotel9.6 miles

Lunch near Caol Ila Distillery.

The three good places closest to it: The Jura Hotel Restaurant, Peatzeria and Bowmore Hotel.

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Did you know10 hours ago

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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