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Cadenhead's own sign, naming it "Scotland's Oldest Independent Bottler", established 1842.
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Cadenhead's

The Canongate shop of Cadenhead's, Scotland's oldest independent whisky bottler, founded in 1842, with whisky drawn straight from the cask.

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Welcome

On the Canongate, the lower half of the Royal Mile, a dark green shopfront with gold lettering is the Edinburgh shop of Cadenhead's, Scotland's oldest independent whisky bottler.

The company was founded in 1842, and it has always done things its own way, choosing single casks from distilleries across Scotland and bottling them as they are.

Inside, the shop is comfortingly old-fashioned, with wooden shelves crowded with bottles and a tartan carpet underfoot. Its great pleasure is the casks behind the counter: whisky can be tasted and bought straight from the barrel, filled into a bottle while you wait, and the staff are glad to talk through what is on the shelves. There are rums and gins from the same hand as well.

Cadenhead's opens every day from half past ten, a few minutes' walk from the Tolbooth.

Before you go

Open every day from half past ten.

Where
172 Canongate, Edinburgh EH8 8DF.
Telephone
0131 556 5864.

Opening hours

Their website
Monday
10.30am–5.30pm
Tuesday
10.30am–5.30pm
Wednesday
10.30am–5.30pm
Thursday
10.30am–5.30pm
Friday
10.30am–5.30pm
Saturday
10.30am–5.30pm
Sunday
Closed
Where it is

On the Canongate, the lower half of the Royal Mile.

Close byThe Canongate.
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  2. Painted figure of a newsboy shouting above The People's Story signThe People’s StoryThe city's free museum of Edinburgh's working people, from the 18th century to now, in the Canongate Tolbooth of 1591.Under a mile1 min by road
  3. Antique plates and framed portraits line the walls of a lace-tabled tea roomClarinda's TearoomA tearoom on the Canongate since 1976, named for Burns's Clarinda.Under a mile1 min by road
  4. Lauriston CastleLauriston CastleUnder a mile1 min by road
  5. Roofless nave of Holyrood Abbey, gothic tracery window framing bare stone ruinsHolyrood AbbeyUnder a mile1 min by road
  6. Scottish Poetry LibraryScottish Poetry LibraryA free library of poetry off the Canongate.Under a mile3 min by road
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