The lowland distillery Auchentoshan [http://www.auchentoshan.com/] is situated to the west of Glasgow at the foot of the Erskine Bridge. It is an easy place to find though you may go past it a few times before finding the actual entrance depending… Continue reading

Following signing up for our Friends of the Classic Malts passports at Dalwhinnie we decided on returning home that our local single malt whisky distillery was long overdue a visit. Our actual local distillery is Label5/Glen Turner owned by La Martiniquase at Starlaw… Continue reading

Every year we organise a group trip to the University of Edinburgh Outdoors Centre at Firbush Point on Loch Tay. Here we generally engage in various activities including hill-walking, canoeing, mountain biking, etc. A couple of years ago a couple… Continue reading

Deanston Distillery Visit Our most visited distillery, I have actually lost count of how many times we have dropped in. Sadly this year (2017) is probably the first since our original visit in 2012 that we haven’t managed to buy… Continue reading

Tullibardine Distillery Visit Visited on 20th April 2012 for the first time, successive visits have occurred but only participated in the full tour on our initial visit. At the time they were very excited about a cask from 1952 which… Continue reading

The Glenlivet Distillery Visit Our 6th Distillery visited and 3rd tour occurred at the famed The Glenlivet Distillery. Claimed as one of the first legal distillers in Speyside and fierce defenders of their reputation. For a long time Speyside whisky… Continue reading

Cragganmore Distillery Visit Another stop, sadly due to Cragganmore having restricted visiting days, it was actually closed to visitors on the day we were there (4th September 2011). As we were in the close vicinity and I was rather fond… Continue reading

Cardhu Distillery Visit Our 4th Distillery and second full tour occured at Cardhu on 4th September 2011. Thanks to joining the ‘Friends of the Classic Malts’ during out tour of Dalwhinnie just days previously we were entitled to a completely… Continue reading

Tormore Distillery Visit More of a stop than a visit as Tormore is not open to visitors. On our first venture into the Speyside region we left Tomatin and took the A95. As Tormore has a regal outlook over the… Continue reading