Well, another stunning
Feis Ile trip passes by and we’d like to say thanks to a few friends for making
it one of the best ever. Firstly to the wonderful
Georgie Crawford for your exceptional hospitality, Jock, Marjorie, Ruth, Pinkie
and the team at Lagavulin, Billy Stitchell, Jackie T, Mags, Mickey Heads,
Bryony, Yogi and all the team at Ardbeg, Donald Colville, Sir Tom Jones, the
legendary Jeremy Stephens, Mark O’Hara, Ben, Justin, Cat & Gareth from
Master Of Malt, Stuart Doyle (The Jensen Button of Islay!) Colin Dunn, Richard
Paterson, Jill Inglis, the teams at Springbank and the Ardshiel Hotel, Richard
Joynson, Eugene Van Der Meer, Jim Whiskyboy, Billy ‘Booze’ Abbott, Des Lynham,
Wiggy McCann, Richard E. Grant, the French girl-with-the-sexy-glasses, the
guerilla distillers, HRH The Queen and particularly Stuart Harrison for the
loan of the Japanese Mercedes.
But wait a second…
As we wend our way down
past the tranquil south shores of Islay we notice something very unusual
indeed.
Hang
on… Another exclusive for you! We seem to have stumbled upon evidence of
Islay's 9th working distilling phenomenon!!
This
shaky camera footage clearly shows that the south shores are home to yet
another distillery, which we have discovered is called ‘Glen Gusset’. Could
this heavily peated spirit*, produced by two as-yet-unidentified distillers
(possibly from Venezuela) be the rarest - and surely most collectible
liquid from the island... who knows?
*probably distilled water