February 2016 – Lightly Peated

I Visit Speyside

Sun is setting at the end of our first day and we look out from the small cottage in which

Some distilleries have embraced the idea of being a visitor attraction, others not so much. Cafés are surprisingly rare, as

Well this is very smart. You drive into the visitors car park with neatly tended verges with trees and face

For reasons I can’t explain I am writing up these notes of my Speyside visit 8 months late. I am

It is a small turning off the A95 and if there hadn’t been a brown tourist sign for Cragganmore I

As a whisky, Tormore has a low profile: there are a few independent bottlings but not much oomph behind a

They are all Grants – in Speyside they are all Grants. The biggest distillery, Glenfiddich, is owned by William Grant

Ignore for a moment that it was probably caused by a tiny drop of water on the lens. Put out

This is not strictly part of my Speyside adventure – Lochnagar clearly lies beside the River Dee, but it is

Put simply: this is the best distillery visit I have been on. OK, it cost more – £35 instead of