ISLAY
Stewart Laing, Jim McEwan, Andrew Laing and Scott Laing toast the future.
Photo: Ralph Dunning.
WORLD-renowned whisky distiller Jim McEwan has been appointed production director of Ardnahoe Distillery on Islay - 18 months after he retired. The Islay-born whisky industry icon, who has 53 years’ experience under his belt, has been hired by Hunter Laing & Co, the family-run Glasgow whisky company behind the first distillery to be built on Islay for more than a decade.