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Persie Distillery's still behind glass: a brass pot with a round copper top beside a tall copper column with portholes, against an old stone wall.
Perthshire

Persie Distillery

A small-batch gin distillery at the foot of Glenshee, with a tasting room and tours behind the scenes.

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Welcome

There's a lovely story behind this little distillery, and a warm welcome when you get there.

Its home was once the Persie Hotel, which ran as a temperance hotel, so not a drop of alcohol was allowed under the roof that now makes gin. The building was bought in 2014 to be turned into a distillery, and it opened to visitors in 2016. Water comes from the Glenshee hills, through a borehole sunk for the distillery, and the gin is made in Phil the Still, a hybrid of pot and column and the first still in Scotland from Müller of Germany's Black Forest. Dogs are welcome in the tasting room, though not where the gin is made, and the dog gins send £1 from every bottle to a Perthshire dog rescue. If you're the driver, your share of the tasting can go home with you in paper cups. It's an easy stop on your way up or down the glen.

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Before you go

There's no need to book to drop in; book the Liquid Tour on the distillery's calendar.

Open
Noon to 5pm. Every day but Wednesday from March to December; Thursday to Sunday in January and February, and other days by appointment.
Tasting
A sip is free. The Sample Paddle, six gins with mixers, is £10, and a non-alcoholic paddle is £5.
The Liquid Tour
£20 each: six gins to taste, then a guided tour of where the gin is made. Allow about an hour and a half.
Not drinking
Tea, coffee, hot chocolate, ice cream and an alcohol-free beer.
Finding it
The white house and steading beside the road, on your left going north. Follow the brown tourist sign.

Opening hours

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Monday
noon–5pm
Tuesday
noon–5pm
Wednesday
Closed
Thursday
noon–5pm
Friday
noon–5pm
Saturday
noon–5pm
Sunday
noon–5pm

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Where it is

On the A93 a mile and a half north of Bridge of Cally, PH10 7LQ.

Close byGlenshee, Blairgowrie and Alyth.
  1. Glenshee Café & Gift ShopGlenshee Café & Gift ShopA café, gift shop and farm shop on the A93 through Glenshee, a warm stop for walkers and skiers on the road to Braemar, open every day.6 miles 10 min by road
  2. The Cockstane: Clan MacThomas' Ancient Gathering StoneThe Cockstane: Clan MacThomas' Ancient Gathering StoneClach na Coileach, the Cockstane, a great glacial boulder in Glenshee that has been the gathering place of Clan MacThomas since the 1400s.7 miles 11 min by road
  3. Cargill’s Leap, PerthshireCargill’s LeapA narrow rocky gorge on the River Ericht just above Blairgowrie, where the Covenanter Donald Cargill is said to have leapt the river to escape the dragoons.8 miles 15 min by road
  4. BlairgowrieA market town on the River Ericht at the edge of the Highlands, with its twin Rattray across the water, once a town of flax and jute mills and now of berry fields.9 miles 17 min by road
  5. Glen Shee from the road, heather and hills under a wide sky.GlensheeThe A93 climbing to the Cairnwell Pass and Scotland's largest ski area, with a summer chairlift, a café and Munros from the car park.11 miles 17 min by road
  6. Meikleour Beech HedgeMeikleour Beech HedgeA beech hedge beside the A93 near Meikleour, planted in 1745, a third of a mile long and around 30 metres high, the tallest hedge in the world.13 miles 24 min by road
  7. The Alyth Burn running through the town between stone walls.AlythAn old market town at the foot of the hills north of Meigle, with the Alyth Burn running through it, a packhorse bridge of the 1500s and the ruined Arches of its first church.13 miles 24 min by road
  8. Devil’s Elbow ViewpointDevil’s Elbow ViewpointA viewpoint on the Cairnwell road between Glenshee and Braemar above the Devil's Elbow, the old double hairpin that drivers once dreaded, now left to walkers.15 miles 22 min by road
Directions
The round dry-stone shelter on the top of Mount Blair, a steel viewpoint indicator ringing its rim, with snow-streaked hills across the glens beyond.WalksMount Blair6.4 miles
The whole of Larch House across its meadow: the larch-clad gable and long roof with roof lights, the lower wing beside it, a ring of river stones in the grass and oaks behind.BlairgowrieLarch HouseSleeps 6 · 6.8 miles
A beaver dam of peeled sticks holding back a pond at Bamff in early spring, a ruined steading and a timber-clad barn beyond.WalksBamff Wildland8.9 miles
Glenshee Kirk, a small rubble-stone church with a bellcote, behind a mossy kirkyard wall and old gravestones, a green hill rising behind it at the Spittal of Glenshee.AttractionsSpittal of Glenshee11 miles
The Alyth Burn rushing over stones between autumn beeches in the Den o' Alyth.WalksDen o' Alyth13 miles
The Reekie Linn pouring white into its gorge among autumn trees.AttractionsReekie Linn18 miles
Loch of the Lowes Wildlife Reserve, PerthshireAttractionsLoch of the Lowes Wildlife Reserve18 miles
An aerial view shows a black timber cabin with a pitched roof set on a deck in an open field, a bath and seating area visible outside.PerthshireThe Cabin at FairygreenSleeps 2 · 19 miles
A stone cottage with a green door and three chimneys sits behind a lawn bordered by shrubs and flowerbeds.KinrossieFairygreen CottageSleeps 4 · 19 miles

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Places to stay near the distillery, and when each is next free.

The whole of Larch House across its meadow: the larch-clad gable and long roof with roof lights, the lower wing beside it, a ring of river stones in the grass and oaks behind.Larch House
  • Sleeps 6
  • In Blairgowrie
  • 6 miles from Persie Distillery
Check datesA stone cottage with a gabled dormer window catches evening light among autumn trees, a bench and picnic table on the gravel outside.Charlottefield
  • Sleeps 4
  • In Tulliemet
  • 9 miles from Persie Distillery
Check datesA red timber cabin with a steep pitched roof stands on a hillside among pines, a covered deck and chairs to one side.Juniper
  • Sleeps 2
  • In Dunkeld
  • 10 miles from Persie Distillery
Check datesAn aerial view shows a stone and timber cottage with a round hot tub in the garden, hills rising behind a dry stone wall.Pheasant Cottage
  • Sleeps 6
  • In Kincraigie
  • 10 miles from Persie Distillery
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