The Glenavullen Distillery stood near the entrance of Kinnabus Farm, about 3 miles away from Port Ellen. No exact information exists, but the distillery survived just 5 years.
The southernmost island of the Southern Hebrides is is the fifth-largest Scottish island. Whisky-wise, Islay is characterised by malts that are pungent with peat, smoke and salinity, revealing their complexity layer after layer. There are eight working distilleries on Islay.
Even the island’s name is shrouded in complexity; the proper pronunciation of Islay is ‘eye-la’.