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Today we visited only one distillery, but what a distillery. It took over four and a half years to build and cost £140 million, but when at full production the new Macallan distillery will be capable of producing 15 million litres of spirit per year, making it the largest whisky distillery in Scotland; even larger than Glenfiddich, who are busily building a
DALMORE, TOMATIN & DUFFTOWN DISTILLERIES WALKING TOUR We headed south from Tain along the same road we travelled yesterday, but…
A CRACKIN’ ROAD ON THE WAY TO GLEN ORD & GLENMORANGY Today we left Drumnadrochit for Tain, the furthest north…
LOCH NESS & DAD STORIES Today we left our Californian travelling companion, Brian, in Oban and headed north. It was…
OBAN: WELCOME TO WALT DIAGEO LAND We left a misty Islay this morning on the ferry from Port Askaig back…
DISTILLERY TOUR FATIGUE & A HAIRY COO ENCOUNTER Our third and final full day on Islay came about all too…
lAPHROAIG, LAGAVULIN, NAR-DBEG & KILDALTON CROSS We headed south for our second full day on Islay with the intent to…
BUNNAHABHAIN, CAOL ILA & ISLAY WOOLLEN MILL We travelled from Campbeltown to Kennacraig, yesterday afternoon with an additional passenger; Brian,…
SPRINGBANK WHISKY SCHOOL Sadly, today was the final day of the Springbank Whisky School. The distillery was finishing up its…
SPRINGBANK WHISKY SCHOOL Today was the last full day of the whisky school and unfortunately, there weren’t any casks that…