VIP Whisky Tour

Introduction

Time: All Year

Accommodation: First Class / Castle Hotels

Start Date: 3 Nights / 4 Days

Group Size: Singles, Couples, Families and Small Groups

Our VIP tour visits Speyside and some the main disilleries in the area. You will have VIP treatment with in depth tours at the distilleries you choose. Staying in the finest hotels, you experience the best of Scotland in sumptuous style.

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Starting in Edinburgh with see the main sites and the two whisky attractions in the city we will head to Speyside for VIP tours and evening tutoring. Distillery choices are flexible so you can choose your favourite malt.

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Itinerary

Day 1: Edinburgh - Private Nosing - Dinner

Arriving in EDINBURGH for an overview tour and a stroll down one of the World’s most famous streets, the ROYAL MILE. At the top, is the CASTLE and nestling beneath it is the SCOTCH MALT WHISKY EXPERIENCE. We will have a private guided nosing and tour of the collection and make it our lunch stop in their whisky themed restaurant. Continuing down the Royal Mile we will see ST GILES CATHEDRAL and the PALACE OF HOLROODHOUSE. Finally, the SCOTCH MALT WHISKY SOCIETY where youu have a private dinner and can choose how you meal is prepared and try as many whiskies as you like.

Day 2: Edradour - Dalwhinnie - Tasting

From Edinburgh, travelling up the whisky smuggler’s route north to SPEYSIDE, our first stop is EDRADOUR. This is Scotland’s smallest distillery, producing fine single malts on a farmhouse scale. Travelling through some of Scotland’s most beautiful mountain scenery, we will arrive at the DALWHINNIE, the highest distillery at 1073 feet. We will stay overnight in the Speyside area, the home of Scottish whisky. Your hotel for the next two nights will have a huge choice of whiskies to sample. Tonight, we will arrange for you to have a private NOSING and TASTING with one of the local whisky experts.

Day 3: Aberlour - Macallan

Today, two in depth tours that will explain the whisky making process in this part of Scotland. Firstly, ABERLOUR is one of the most respected whiskies in Scotland. Here, you are able to hand-fill your own personally labelled bottle of Aberlour from a sherry butt and a bourbon barrel, each considered to be fine examples of the distillery’s style. Then MACALLAN, Speyside’s best known heavyweight. Their fine collection of whiskies fetch up to $33,000 per bottle. Following an in depth tour of the distillery, guests have the opportunity to sample the oaky, resiny, sherried flavours of the whiskies.

Day 4: Glenfiddich - Glenlivet

On our final day, two great names in whisky production. GLENFIDDICH uses traditional coal firing in one of the two still houses. It is one of the few distilleries to have remained in the hands of the family who founded it. Here we take the Connoisseurs’ tour which includes a tutored nosing. Our last stop is at the GLENLIVET.This is the biggest selling malt in the American market. It is a whisky of structure and complexity with a flowery, peachy style, derived from the light peating and the hardness of the mountain water which runs underground for many miles.