All good things come to he (or she) who waits…and man, that happened to me. I’ve been trying to visit The Balvenie Distillery since mid 2016, and I even had to cancel a tour last year as work got in the way. Today that changed. Today I found myself spending rather a long time in whisky heaven…and I loved every…
Sunday saw me taking a trip to Speyside…well it’s the right thing to do when it’s on your doorstep surely? It really was a gorgeous sunny day and I doubt I’ll ever tire of the stunning views that greet you, as well as on the drive there. It was supposed to be a quick bite of lunch, however if you…
What do you do when you get up in the morning and decide to take a very last minute couple of days off? Well you decide to go to Glen Moray Distillery…or at least I did. It was good to get something whisky related back in my system. You know? Yeah, course you do. I was on the tour with…
Hopefully the title had you thinking “huh?” I’ve called it what I did as they were the main influence in my deciding to buy a ticket and go. Well we all like a giggle don’t we? Or should I say “we all love trying new whiskies, don’t we?” Maybe it should be “a lost weekend in a hostel in Aviemore?”……
Last Sunday I decided it was time to escape the city limits and go where the views are breathtaking and the air is smattered with the remnants of the Angel’s Share…yes I was heading to a couple of Speyside distilleries… On the way there was a reminder of a distillery I want to visit again this year, The GlenDronach. A…
back in January 2016 year that I’d be off on my travels sampling whiskies and blogging I’d have laughed. But here I am and yes I’m doing that. Someone asked the question of what were memorable drams of 2016 and it made me think, because there have been a few I have sampled, more to come (oh hell yeah) and…
Today I visited the Royal Lochnagar distillery which is located very near to Balmoral Castle on Royal Deeside. It was a bright but cold November morning, so what better to do then visit a distillery for a little tour and a warming sample or two…? The distillery has been in the area since 1845. This was the “new” one having…
I had passed this distillery many a time on travels over the years but this time it was a chance to go in and visit. Tickets bought we went into watch the introductory film before commencing the tour itself. A young lady took us on the tour. I guess what strikes you is the scale of operation, this is a…
I recently visited this distillery which is located next to Bassenthwaite Lake, in the Lake District National Park. This, if you didn’t know is a new distillery which ran its first spirit on 16th December 2014 and officially opened that year. The tour itself costs £12.50 (billy no mates here went alone, but a voucher can be used with another…
The 12th of August “The Glorious Twelfth” saw me visiting this distillery which is located just outside Pitlochry in Perthshire. Edradour is”world renowned as the smallest traditional distillery in Scotland and arguably the most unique. Dating back to 1825, Edradour, stands alone as the last stronghold of handmade single malt whisky from a farm distillery still in production today”. I had…
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