Taken from just below Loch Indaal lighthouse in the last light of the gloaming, a view of the rocky cliffs with waves breaking over the rocks towards Port Charlotte on the Rhinns of Islay. Towards the left you can just make out the Oa.
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.
A November afternoon crossing to Islay on the MV Finlaggan, a panoramic view over the top deck with the funnels, the outside seating and the rescue crafts.