18 Oct
2025
18 Oct
'25
3:56 p.m.
Only been to Islay once (to date) and that was a pierhead jump to babysit a tracking
range, so no distillery visits.
The Caol Ila is no bad as well, a pleasant vista as you pass up the Sound of Islay;
although the rest of the West Coast is hard to fault from seaward.
My pick from Springbank is the (peaty) Longrow.
Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: Harald Arnesen via cctalk [mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org]
Sent: 18 October 2025 19:12
To: Martin Bishop via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Cc: Harald Arnesen <lists(a)skogtun.org>
Subject: [cctalk] Re: Waaaay OT: Re: Re: Classic computing - earliest years
Martin Bishop via cctalk [2025-10-18 15:16:00]:
Islay is only in the Hebrides on questionable maps,
they stopped at Mull when I was a skuleboy, and Islay has many excellent distileries - if
you care for peaty malt. Cambelltown, at the foot of the Kintyre peninsula, equally
merits mention. And then there are all the East Coast distileries Glen Morangie,
Glenlivett and all its chums clustered around the Spey - quite different from the West
Coast malts.
I assume you know more about Islay than I do. I have visited the island twice.
Many of my favourites come from that island - Laphroaig, Lagavulin, Ardbeg, I have walked
to all three from Port Ellen.
As for Campbelltown, Springbank is also one of my all-time favourites.
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Hilsen Harald the Viking