Lagavulin distillery on Islay makes one of Scotland's greatest single malt whiskies, a grand and complex spirit that epitomises the richly peaty style traditionally associated with Islay. A founding member of owner Diageo's Classic Malts since their inception in the late 1980s, Lagavulin is produced on the Kildalton shore in the south of the island and is situated just east of Laphroaig on the road between Port Ellen and Ardbeg.

Lagavulin's classical Islay single malt whisky has a very distinctive dry, peaty, oily, seaweedy house style that has won it legions of fans, and is one of the few distilleries that puts almost all its production towards single malt. It is an interesting distillery to visit, to see the beautiful traditional wooden washbacks and the unusual onion-shaped stills. 

The near-mythical lost Islay single malt whisky Malt Mill was produced on-site at Lagavulin from 1908 until 1960. Malt Mill's equipment was dismantled in 1962 and incorporated into the reconstructed Lagavulin site, indeed the visitor centre at Lagavulin is part of the old Malt Mill complex. The stills from Malt Mill were used at Lagavulin for the remainder of the 1960s, thus making any spirit distilled during these years of great interest to collectors and drinkers alike. What is certain is that Malt Mill remains the ultimate goal and dream of almost every whisky enthusiast in the world.