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Barley Planting
April 27, 2015Spring has sprung on Islay after a period of pretty horrible weather. With spring comes the annual planting of our barley. It has now been sown and all being well (fingers crossed the good weather continues) come August we will be harvesting, drying and storing it ready for malting and distilling in 2016. The 100 tonnes we harvest each year is used exclusively to produce our 100% Islay release, the latest edition of which will be launched on Monday.
Growing, malting and distilling barley on Islay has its own unique challenges, not least the weather (it doesn’t always look like this!). That said these unique conditions create a truly distinctive single malt as a result, making all the extra work well worth the effort!
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Harvest 2024
As every farmer knows, success in agriculture is often at the mercy of the weather, and 2024 proved to be no exception. We started ploughing on 7th March in the Smiddy Field, but the unsettled weather meant we took longer than normal and this delay impacted our sowing schedule. Typically,…
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