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Recommended Books

Island Series - Islay Guide

Buy Islay Pevensy Guide from Amazon A small book, loaded with gorgeous colour pictures of this beautiful Island in the Hebrides. Has a useful Information and Places to visit Guide. Includes a map, distillery info and lots more.

Landranger Islay Map

This map is part of the Landranger (Pink) series and is designed for people who really want to get to know an area. This map makes your Islay Discovery a lot easier and is a must for every visitor of Islay.

Walking Islay

A guide to the best walking on Scotland's remote Southern Hebrides - Jura, Islay, Colonsay and Oronsay. Jura, Islay and Colonsay offer some of wildest scenery in the British Isles


Islay - Lossit Bay Atlantic Coast
Islay - Lighthouse Port Ellen
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Islay Festival of Malt and Music 2006

Saturday, May 27th
RETURN TO ISLAY FESTIVAL INDEX

Lagavulin Distillery The first event of the Festival week is at Lagavulin distillery. This year we were lucky to have a sunny day.

Lagavulin Distillery

Lagavulin Distillery The famous Islay oysters are present on many a occasion. They are fairly cheap and delicious!

Islay Oysters

Lagavulin Distillery Checking the casks for leakage is done with a hammer. The sound will tell you if the cask is OK.

Lagavulin Cask Checking

Lagavulin Distillery Many people attend the nosing&tasting almost all distilleries have. At Lagavulin we tasted a 40 yo whisky, just to find out that it was horrible! Age does not become every whisky, so we were taught.

Lagavulin Nosing and Tasting







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Islay birding Trip



Books from Amazon

Andrew Jefford - Peat Smoke and Spirit

Those who discover malt whisky quickly learn that the malts made on the Isle of Islay are some of the wildest and most characterful in the malt-whisky spectrum.

Neil Wilson - The Island Whisky Trail

Buy The Island Whiskty Trail from Amazon This guide for the whisky enthusiast covers the distilleries of the Hebrides and the west coast of Scotland.

Jim Murray's Whisky Bible

Buy the Whisky Bible from Amazon Jim Murray's Whisky Bible 2006 is a revised and expanded edition of the highly successful and innovative book that had its genesis in 2003.

Michael Jackson's Malt Whisky Companion

Buy the Malt Whisky Companion from Amazon This is an essential read for the whisky connoisseur. Many whiskies described in detail including many rare bottlings.

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