A view across Bunnahabhain Bay from outside the distillery, looking over the pier to the north of Islay. Sgarbh Breac, this highest hill in the area at 364m, just left of centre.
Bunnahabhain pier and Sgarbh Breac, Isle of Islay
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Bunnahabhain view from the veranda, Isle of Islay
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A panoramic view from the veranda of the Bunnahabhain distillery visitor centre over the bay and the Sound of Islay. On a clearer day you see Colonsay and Mull in the far distance, during this visit in April it was too hazy to see them. Still, a nice view of the Paps of Jura on the right.
Filling samples at a Bruichladdich warehouse tasting, Isle of Islay
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In November 2022 I was able to do something I had long wanted to do, a warehouse tasting at Bruichladdich distillery on the Rhinns of Islay. Among other reasons that I was staying in Port Charlotte, allowing me to walk to and from the distillery along the Loch Indaal coastal path (although for the return leg a kind member of the distillery staff gave me a lift by car, for which I was very grateful). At the end of the tasting we were able to fill our sample bottles with a proper valinch directly from the cask. I’m not sure which cask I was filling from here, most likely a Port Charlotte from a wine cask.
After the tasting we went over to the visitor centre where I also filled a valinch bottle.