The glorious beach on Islay, home to some of Scotland's most popular whisky distilleries Credit: Alamy. In 2019 alone the amber nectar drew in 2.16 million visitors, keen to see the distilleries ...

The Fèis Ìle, Islay’s annual celebration of whisky and culture, started in the 1980s as a local festival of music and Gaelic traditions. Now, it has become a global pilgrimage for whisky fans ...

Scotland is home to 128 operating malt distilleries, whose exports were valued at £4.9 billion in 2019, with 42 bottles of Scotch Whisky shipped overseas each second!

Annandale - £2,580+ ($3,350) Located in the south of Scotland near the English border, new whisky distillery Annandale recently released its first single malt whisky, with a new edition on the way.

After months of anticipation, this Friday evening a lively parade will wind its way through the town of Port Ellen on Islay, marking the official launch of the 2024 Fèis Ìle .

Two new whisky distilleries are scheduled to open this summer, in Port Ellen on the isle of Islay, and on the Ardgowan estate near Inverkip, 30 miles west of Glasgow.

Another Islay whisky legend, Ardbeg, was mothballed for most of the 1980s but has been spectacularly revived since it it was bought by the mainland distillery Glenmorangie in 1997.

Pictured: Fèis Ìle is an annual festival celebrating the culture, whisky, and community of the Isle of Islay (Image: Supplied). From Friday, May 24 to Saturday, June 1, distilleries including ...

The three sons of a whisky tycoon named William Harvey created Islay's first "purpose-built" distillery in 1881, a state-of-the-art HQ for crafting premium Scotch. (The others were built mostly ...

If you do choose to visit Islay, make sure that you like smoky whisky, otherwise you’ll wish you’d visited Speyside ...