Michael Russell MSP signs the Glen Iosal petition.
ISLAY’S first rum distillery could be up and bottling by the island’s whisky festival next May.
Ben Inglis, a 25-year-old entrepreneur born and bred on Islay, hopes to spark a ‘rum revolution’ on the whisky isle by starting his own craft rum distillery at Glenegedale. If all goes to plan, the High Road Rum Company could become the first rum distillery on Scotland’s West Coast.