A view from the Loch Indaal coastal path on a beautiful November morning on the Rhinns of Islay. Bruichladdich pier just visible in the distance on the left, the Paps of Jura on the horizon on the other side of the loch.
I’m not sure if it has a name, a small beach between Port Ban and Bruichladdich on the Rhinns of Islay. Taken on a beautiful November morning.
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.