Ardbeg has always had more of a cult-like following among savvy single malt afficionados. Right up there with some of the best (and better known) Islay-based Scotch producers, the brand may not ring ...

Game of Thrones fans have been muttering, “winter is coming” for a decade now. But this time of year, there’s another phrase on everyone’s minds: spring is here. Even though it seems like Punxsutawney ...

We were driving on what is locally known as the Golden Mile, a stretch on the wind-pummeled, rugged island of Islay off Scotland’s southwest coast that includes three time-honored, world-renowned ...

On the western coast of Scotland sits the island of Islay. The southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides, Islay is home to 3,000 people, a lot of sheep, and eight whisky distilleries. This includes ...

A mile from Laphroaig in one direction and Ardbeg in another, Lagavulin Distillery can be found on the southeastern edge of Islay, firmly in Scotland’s peat zone. The smallest of Scotland’s designated ...

"TERROIR is not important for whisky, only wine,” a barman once dismissively informed me in the Marais in Paris. I wish he was here with me now as I sail into Port Ellen past Ardbeg, Laphroaig and ...

That’s not my observation, nor the invention of the Marketing Department at Diageo, Lagavulin’s owner, but the judgement of the first ever whisky journalist, Alfred Bernard, on Lagavulin's 8-year-old ...

My husband loves his whisky. The 16 bottles in his current stock bear the names of such distilleries as Laphroaig, Lagavulin, Bowmore, Ardbeg and Bruichladdich — all from the Scottish Isle of Islay ...