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Welcome to Islay Whisky Academy
"Sharing the Spirit of Scotland"
… dreaming of a trip to Islay… ? Are you mesmerised when smelling a peated whisky, or by a notion to find your Scottish connections? Answer these calls! Join us in October for the Islay Whisky Academy Residential Diploma Week
AN INTERESTING, UNUSUAL ISLAY WHISKY/WHISKEY TOUR WEEK
Previous guests & students describe it as
A LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE
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Practical and theoretical experiences let you see how Scotch whisky is made. Heritage and history are still alive in Islay. Become part of the Scottish Kinship when you book onto the Islay Whisky Academy Residential DIPLOMA or Tour.
Discovering and learning, you’ll feel a sense of belonging in Islay, amongst fellow whisky-lovers and distillers.
This comprehensive Trip to Islay and her distilleries has many layers. You’ll be cutting peats on the peat moss, shovelling green malt in the malt barns, DRINKING WHISKY / WHISKEY IN AN OLD WAREHOUSE BY THE SHORE
Hear from the bold, beautiful and best in the industry!
Our Tutors and presenters are so knowledgeable, so full of real information and good craic to boot!
You will be LEARNING & LAUGHING at the same time…
Enjoy the scenery, watch geese on Loch Indaal, catch a glimpse of a stag, or a seal. Hear an owl hooting when you have a dram in the garden.
Make friends not contacts. Fall in love with the island and the adventures you are going to have at Islay Whisky Academy.
Our comprehensive theoretical, practical and cultural courses, lectures and tastings are underpinned by captivating technical information, imparted in unique, illuminating and meaningful ways.
You are a Scotch Whisky Adventurer. BOOK NOW to experience Islay and whisky/whiskey like never before.
Residential Diploma October 2025
Mon 27 - Fri 31 October 2025 ~ Includes Sun 26 & Fri 31 nights for FREE
Your Journey of Discovery Starts Here
Courting the Dram online course from WHISKY AFFINITY ©
Improve your Nosing and Tasting abilities. Find out how the geology of Islay influences the taste and production process of our whisky.
Learn why Scotch whisky and Pipetunes have so much in common.
Find out the difference between Orthonasal olfaction and Retro nasal olfaction…
EXPAND YOUR WHISKY THINKING AND UNDERSTANDING with Courting the Dram online course.
Providing online, residential, day and half-day courses, Islay Whisky Academy opens your whisky mind.
Enjoying fascinating insights you begin to interpret heritage and history, and the ways that music, literature and language weave into a dram’s unfolding story,
Become part of the Islay Whisky Academy Kinship and appreciate whisky in an expansive, supportive environment.
A Precious Environment
When you learn more and start connecting on an elemental level with what you’re drinking, you recognise how weather, trees, minerals, animals, people and place are all intrinsically part of whisky, its history and its evolvement.
When we begin to understand the generosity embedded in the environment of whisky, we are filled with a sense of gratitude and care for our planet. This underpins all of the Academy’s values.
