Uig Lodge Distillery
The first legal whisky distillery on the Isle of Lewis. Uig Lodge sits on the wild Atlantic coast of the Outer Hebrides, producing small-batch single malt from barley grown on Lewis. The maritime climate — salt air, high winds, dramatic temperature swings — creates maturation conditions found nowhere else in Scotland. The whisky is still in its early years, but the terroir argument is compelling: Lewis peat, Lewis water, Lewis air. One to watch as the first casks reach maturity.
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