The first new permanent expression in the last nine years, Lagavulin 11 Year Old Sweet Peat, is made with heavily peated malted barley and local Islay water. It’s fermented in wooden washbacks before ...

Islay—pronounced eye-la—has been one of Scotland’s whisky heartlands since at least the 1700s. Once a cottage industry, making Scotch here is now big business: global giants Beam Suntory, Diageo, LVMH ...

In 1815, on the southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides, the Ardbeg distillery was founded. On an island as small and sparsely populated as Islay, there was a time when a distillery was its own town ...

Finished your bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label and wondering what comes next? Here are three brilliant blended Scotch ...

In a previous piece, we looked at the best single malts from each Scotch whisky region at the World Whiskies Awards 2026. Today, I've decided to take a closer look at one of those regions: Islay. This ...

Bartender, gimme a shot — and a loan. Two bottles of Islay Single Malt Scotch whisky hit the auction block Sunday, with bidding among discriminating buyers expected to climb above $160,000. The pricey ...

When our late colleague Bob Simon heard about a magical place in the Hebrides islands off the coast of Scotland, known for making some of the great whiskies in the world….well, the story spoke to him.

I’ve tried hundreds of Scotch whiskies. Whenever a friend tells me they don’t like peat, I steer them right to this bottle. Spring is unpredictable. One day it’s hot, the next it’s chilly. On those ...