Among those who don’t know it well, Scotch whisky has an intimidating reputation. Five distinct regions. Hundreds of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1815, on the southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides, the Ardbeg distillery was founded. On an island as small and sparsely ...

No celebrity partnership with a brand has ever made more sense than Nick Offerman’s with Lagavulin. His personal love for the Islay scotch brand is perhaps only outdone by Offerman’s “Parks and ...

The Islay powerhouse delivers a long-awaited cask-strength take on its classic 10-Year—but once it’s gone, it’s gone.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about travel and food. So I love forks in the road. Whisky is an acquired taste. And after years of drinking blended ...

On Wednesday, Suntory Global Spirits announced that it will be merging the operations teams at two of its most iconic Scotch whisky distilleries, Laphroaig and Bowmore. The change is said to align ...