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Caol Ila Distillery, Isle of IslayThe distillery on the Sound of Islay near Port Askaig, the Islay Home of Johnnie Walker, looking across to Jura.

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Distillery of the day21 hours ago

Deer Island Distillery.

Jura's rum distillery, at the Pier Garage in Craighouse, making a spiced rum since 2021.

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Did you know20 hours ago

Talisker distillery on Skye works an odd number of stills, five, which may be a leftover from the days when it distilled its whisky three times.

Two wash stills do the first distilling and three spirit stills do the second. That uneven line-up is thought to go back to Talisker's years of triple distillation, when the spirit went through the stills a third time. The third distillation stopped in 1928, but the extra still stayed.

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Did you know20 hours ago

Robert Louis Stevenson named Talisker among the King o' drinks.

In 1880, Robert Louis Stevenson named Talisker in verse among the King o' drinks, alongside Islay and Glenlivet.

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From the magazine19 hours agoThe printed copy of Issue 10Issue 10Spring / Summer 2025

The very first bottle of whisky from Nc'nean, a distillery on the Morvern peninsula, sold for £41,000 at a charity auction.

Annabel Thomas named the distillery she was building on the west coast after Neachneohain, a Gaelic goddess of Scottish folklore, a huntress and fierce protector of nature. In August 2020, after seven years of work, she held the finished whisky at last, and the first 10 bottles were auctioned for five charities close to the team's hearts. As Annabel says, 'We thought we would make around £20,000 for them, but the first bottle alone went for £41,000'. In the end the auction raised £96,000. The organic distillery runs on wood chips from a local forest, bottles its whisky in recycled glass, and is the first distillery in Scotland to be classed as net-zero.

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Quiz19 hours ago

In 1898 Talisker joined with a distillery that was then the largest single malt distillery in Speyside, to form one company. Which?

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Did you know18 hours ago

Ardbeg was run by the McDougall family until 1959, when it became Ardbeg Distillery Ltd.

That is the name stamped on these cask ends, each one numbered in chalk. Most of what sleeps here is in bourbon casks, with sherry casks used to sweeten some bottlings.

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From Issue 13 of Hidden Scotland magazineIssue 1317 hours ago

The Unsung Corner

Sam Heughan on growing up by Kenmure Castle above Loch Ken, life after Outlander, and building Galloway Distillery, a net-zero distillery in the hills of Dumfries and Galloway.

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Did you know17 hours ago

The Clydeside Distillery's first single malt came out in October 2021.

The distillery on Stobcross Road released its first single malt on 15 October 2021. Called Stobcross, it is a marriage of bourbon and sherry casks, and is poured at the end of the tour.

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Did you know16 hours ago

The 3,384 bottles at the Scotch Whisky Experience were gathered over 35 years by one collector, Claive Vidiz.

The collection began in the 1970s, when a business colleague gave him six single malts. Diageo bought the collection in October 2006, and it has stood in these cases on the Royal Mile since May 2009.

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Quiz16 hours ago

Which of these calls itself the tallest whisky distillery in the world?

New at MacGregor's15 hours ago

MacGregor's at The Whisky Vaults in Oban has been named Whisky Bar of the Year.

The Tweedale Street bar won the title at the Scottish Bar and Pub Awards, and pairs over 375 whiskies with live music most nights and a five-dram tasting told through songs and stories.

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