“Taking Islay with me will be easy…” says Chloe Wood who’ll be 23 this month and is setting off to work for us in Singapore from September. She says that her favourite place is her home at Octofad, the farm her grandfather originally moved to from the mainland. "It was a beautiful place to grow up”. Octofad lies four miles south of Port Charlotte and above the ancient site of Nerabus. High on the hill, it has amazing views over Loch Indaal to the paps of Jura. The Wood family have done many things over the years. Octofad was originally a dairy farm supplying Islay Creamery before that shut down in 2000. Chloe was just 6 at the time. They moved into ...