Islay Distilled

A Spirited Travel Guide to Islay's Attractions, Hotels, Restaurants… and Distilleries

By: Mike Gerrard

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Islay Distilled is a complete travel guide to Islay, Scotland's whisky island, famed for its peaty single malt Scotch whiskies. Whether you want to visit Islay to see its world-renowned whisky distilleries, or just enjoy the other attractions like its beaches, its hiking, its wildlife or its historic sites, Islay Distilled is the guidebook for you.

Whisky lovers will find all its main whisky distilleries covered here: Ardbeg, Ardnahoe, Bowmore, Bruichladdich, Bunnahabhain, Caol Ila, Kilchoman, Lagavulin, and Laphroaig. Not only will you find out how to book tours, you'll learn what other attractions are nearby, which eating places are near (or in) the distilleries, and which is the best accommodation close to, or even inside, the nine main whisky distilleries of Islay. Yes, you can spend the night in some of these distilleries!

THE AUTHOR
Mike Gerrard is an award-winning travel and drinks writer who has written for National Geographic, The Times of London, American Express, Google, Microsoft, BBC Good Food, Waitrose Drinks, The Huffington Post, and BBC Travel. He has written over 40 travel guidebooks, including the best-selling National Geographic Traveler Guide to Greece, and has done one podcast, and a collection of travel writing, Snakes Alive.

He has contributed to drinks magazines and websites including Waitrose Drinks, Drinkhacker, Chilled, and The Alcohol Professor.

He founded the successful Travel Distilled website (traveldistilled.com), which combines his two passions: travel and spirits. His life as a travel and drinks writer has led to him drinking vodka for breakfast in Siberia, cognac in Cognac, sherry in Jerez, port in Oporto, champagne in Champagne, rum in Jamaica, jenever in Amsterdam, gin in Iceland, beer at the Great American Beer Festival, bourbon in Kentucky, whisk(e)y in Tennessee and Scotland, and visiting distilleries all over the world.

Islay Distilled is the first in his series of Spirited Travel guides.