The most northerly distillery on mainland Scotland, so it is, and a fisherman’s drink it be! Fisherman’s drink, I hear you question, I thought they only drank rum and cod liver oil? Well, my friend, not in Scotland! With the distillery being right on the coast, and roads being in short supply at the time, […]
The rolling hills of the highlands seldom disappoint, whether it be their whisky or natural beauty you are after. Located within them is the distillery of Balblair, which is one of the oldest distilleries in Scotland –having been officially established in 1790 – yet they do not hold the recognition within the whisky world which […]
Dalwhinnie 15 year old is considered by a few to be a bit of a lady’s drink, not quite suitable as a man’s dram. How it earned this reputation I do not know, though I would suppose that it is due to a combination of its mild mannered characteristics and the label being just a […]
Since I’ve mainly been drinking foreign whiskeys lately, I guess I’ve been trying to widen my horizons, I felt an uncontrollable urge just now to return to the hills of home; the highlands of Scotland. And what better way to do so than to have a glass of (proper) whisky? The question, then, was which […]
The Scottish highlands are known for a variety of things; their rugged hills and mountains including Ben Nevis, the highest in the UK, fantastic nature and well preserved wildlife, the all-but-sparse flow of naturally crisp and pure water, but perhaps more than any of those it is known for, you guessed it, fantastic whisky. The […]
The Clynelish distillery is situated on the northeastern coast of Scotland, in the town of Brora. Founded in 1819, it was originally known as Brora, and would be for quite a few years until a new distillery was built along side the old in 1968; the whisky produced in the new distillery, still a part […]