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 ...

In 1815, on the southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides, the Ardbeg distillery was founded. On an island as small and sparsely populated as Islay, there was a time when a distillery was its own town ...

World-famous Scotch whisky produced on the islands of Islay and Jura will soon have an extra taste of the sea, thanks to a pioneering green energy project that will see distilleries powered by the ebb ...