Distillery: Caol Ila Region: Islay Founded: 1846 Few distilleries combine tradition and modernity as effectively as Caol Ila. This distillery is one of Scotland's most remote, nestled in a cave in Port Askaig, on the tip of Islay. It overlooks the ferocious Sound of Islay from which it takes its name, and looks across Jura. A pier was built in front of it in the 1860s, and for the next 100 years or so, two steamers a week were dropping off raw materials to it, and taking spirit away.
