Bruichladdich

On the Rhinns of Islay in the west of the island. It was built in 1881 by the Harvey brothers — William, John and Robert — as a state-of-the-art distillery.

Closed in 1994, it was bought in 2000 by investors led by Mark Reynier. In 2001 the distillery was dismantled and reassembled and reopened, with Jim McEwan, formerly of Bowmore, as master distiller.

It makes unpeated Bruichladdich, heavily peated Port Charlotte and Octomore — described as the world's most heavily peated single malt — as well as The Botanist gin. Rémy Cointreau acquired it in 2012, but it continues to be run independently by island-based management.