The boys from the Sunshine Isle have done it again, and in the most anticipated event since their launch of their first bottling, Tiree Whisky Company will introduce their first gin at the Tiree Music Festival next weekend.
Owners Ian Smith and Alain Campbell, both native islanders and members of the band Trail West, formed Tiree Whisky Company to preserve and promote the island’s whisky heritage – after all, at one time it was home to no fewer than 50 illicit stills.
In May, they released The Cairnsmuir, a limited edition 19-year-old single malt, named after an ironscrew steamer that ran aground off Hough on the Isle of Tiree in 1885 while carrying a 100-ton cargo of spirits and beer.