Portal:Scotland/Selected picture/September, 2012



Bruichladdich Distillery is a Scotch whisky distillery on the Rhinns of the isle of Islay. It is one of eight distilleries on the island, and until the recent opening of Kilchoman farm distillery, the only independent one. One interpretation of the Gaelic word Bruichladdich is "stony shore bank", referring to a post glacial raised beach, though an alternative, perhaps more pertinent translation may be "rocky lee shore". Normally pronounced brook-lad-dee, or by some Gaelic speakers as broo-ee-clah-dee (depending on accent),  it incorporates a specific, localised soft pronunciation of the Gaelic ch element.

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