Whisky ride - Islay next spring/early summer

So far visited Edradour (tiny, independent, twelve-casks-a-week-output place), Aberfeldy (the core malt for the Dewar's White Label blend), Cragganmore (Diageo-owned but surprisingly unusual) and Glenfarclas (bleak, weird place).

Also stumbled across little newsagent type place in Pitlochry that is also a whisky merchant and sells countless malts at really good prices, so picked up bottles of Highland Park (12yr), Laphroaig (10yr) and some of that Hendrick's gin to go with the Edradour. Looks like I'll be pissed and broke for most of 2010.

I loved Glenfarclas - having to go down that long lane to get there. It was thick snow when we went last year. The whole place was frozen up so they gave us a free tour. Didn't you think the visitor centre was ace, with the cool wood panelled room? Glenfarclas 105 FTW.