Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This Inner Hebrides island is home to a ton of sheep, misty weather, and myriad renowned distilleries including Ardbeg, ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about travel and food. So I love forks in the road. Islay, the southernmost island in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides, is ...

What single malts share DNA with Johnnie Walker Double Black? Five bottles that each follow a different thread-smoke, wood, ...

Distilled from 55% rye and 45% barley grown entirely on Islay, the 7-year-old whisky emerged from a crop rotation experiment designed to restore and strengthen the island’s soil. Tony Sachs has ...

The whisky is called The Regeneration Project, and is said to be the first ever Islay rye whisky (it’s referred to as single grain on the label, a designation that separates it from a 100 percent ...

Peated whiskies seem to be a love-or-hate deal, with little room for indifference. The best-known expressions come from the rocky shores of Islay, off the southwest coast of Scotland—but producers in ...

Islay whiskies were already my favorite in the world when I first visited the remote Scottish island in 2016. And as much as I love the rich, peated single malts produced at its nine working ...

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 ...

glass of Scottish whisky sitting on moss - Aleksei Isachenko/Shutterstock The Scottish island of Islay, located off the west coast of the Scottish mainland, is blessed with numerous peat bogs and ...