Portintruan
Elixir Distillers' first Islay distillery, built on the shore west of Port Ellen at the historic Gartbreck site and officially opened in 2024. Sister operation to Elixir's indie bottling business and the newly-owned Tormore distillery in Speyside; first commercial releases still several years away.
Location
Gartbreck, Islay, PA42 7AP
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Lagavulin
Iconic Islay distillery on the southern shore, Lagavulin produces some of the most intensely peated, deeply maritime whisky in Scotland. The 16 Year Old is a benchmark Islay dram.
Bruichladdich
Islay’s self-styled progressive distillery produces unpeated (Laddie), heavily peated (Port Charlotte) and super-heavily peated (Octomore) spirit on the same site. Terroir-obsessed and determinedly independent-minded.
Laphroaig
The most polarising of the Islay distilleries — enormously peated, heavy on iodine and TCP notes. Laphroaig is Marmite whisky, and that’s exactly how its fans want it.