Diploma Certificate
Ode to the Islay Whisky Academy
Islay Whisky Academy Kinship Host Neill Murphy reflects on the magical experience of the Spring 2024 Residential Diploma.
Fàilte gu Acadamaidh Uisge-beatha Ìle
"Sharing the Spirit of Scotland"
The Islay Whisky Academy Residential Diploma for Spring 2024 has wrapped. It doesn’t quite seem real. Those six days spent on the whisky isle felt like a whirlwind. A hurricane of information and experience, of new friendships and new perspectives and of whiskies so good, you could spend a lifetime trying to describe them.
Step into a world where the magic of whisky is celebrated and shared.
Where knowledge awakens our senses to the technicality of craft, and history and culture come alive in Scottish kinship.
It’s about discovery and delight, awareness and learning and feeling a sense of belonging amongst fellow whisky-lovers and distillers.
Our comprehensive theoretical, practical and cultural courses, lectures and tastings are underpinned by captivating technical information, imparted in unique, illuminating and meaningful ways.
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Diploma Certificate
IWA Residential Diploma October 2023 Preview
IWA Kinship host, Neill Murphy, previews the 2023 edition of the Islay Whisky Academy Residential Diploma. IWA is created by Rachel MacNeill.
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Ardbeg Corryvreckan Tasting Notes
IWA Founder, Rachel MacNeill, shares her thoughts on the Ardbeg Corryvreckan Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Your Journey of Discovery Starts Here
Recognised worldwide as the soul of the Scottish spirit, whisky’s warm and welcoming heritage forms the heartbeat of Islay Whisky Academy.
Providing online, residential, day and half-day courses, lectures, tastings and experiences, Islay Whisky Academy opens your mind to a world far beyond taste.
Through fascinating insights enabling you to interpret everything from the dance between heritage and history; to the ways that music, literature and language weave into a dram’s ever-unfolding story, you learn how to nose, taste 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.