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Isle of Skye

Whisky by the sea.

Skye and Raasay make whisky full of the sea, smoky and salty and warming on a wild day. There's the island's oldest working distillery on the shore of a sea loch, a newer one in a restored farm steading looking across to the mainland hills, and another just over the water on Raasay in a Victorian villa. Most offer tours and tastings that are best booked ahead, especially in summer. If you're driving, ask about a dram to take home for later, and make an afternoon of it with lunch nearby.

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Did you know19 hours ago

Talisker distillery is paying to bring native oysters and seagrass back to Loch Harport, the sea loch outside its door.

Over three years Talisker is putting £600,000 into native oyster and seagrass projects in two west-coast lochs, Loch Harport on Skye and Loch Craignish in Argyll, run by the community charity Seawilding. The need is plain: since industrialisation began, the UK has lost 92 per cent of its seagrass.

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Quiz18 hours ago

In 1898 Talisker joined with a distillery that was then the largest single malt distillery in Speyside, to form one company. Which?

Tours16 hours agoIsle of SkyeTalisker DistilleryAttractionIsle of SkyeTorabhaig DistilleryAttractionIsle of SkyeIsle of Raasay DistillerySleeps 2

Distillery tours you can book.

From the mash tun to the cask, and a dram at the end of it.

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Did you know15 hours ago

Talisker distillery on Skye works an odd number of stills, five, which may be a leftover from the days when it distilled its whisky three times.

Two wash stills do the first distilling and three spirit stills do the second. That uneven line-up is thought to go back to Talisker's years of triple distillation, when the spirit went through the stills a third time. The third distillation stopped in 1928, but the extra still stayed.

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Lunch14 hours agoIsle of SkyeThe Three Chimneys at Talisker0 yardsIsle of SkyeThe Old Inn300 yardsIsle of SkyeCaora Dhubh Coffee Company400 yards

Lunch near The Bar at Talisker Distillery.

The three closest tables: The Three Chimneys at Talisker, The Old Inn and Caora Dhubh Coffee Company.

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Quiz12 hours ago

When Talisker distillery was built on Skye in 1830, what did the local former minister, Roderick Macleod, call it?

Sunset 18:0411 hours ago

Golden hour at Talisker Distillery.

The reputation of Skye’s oldest working distillery goes before it. Standing on the shores of Loch Harport since the year 1830, and granting superb views of the Cuillins, Talisker is well known for its full-bodied single malt.

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In Isle of Skye10 hours ago

Isle of Raasay Distillery has released The Full Monti, a limited single malt made without peat.

The six-year-old whisky spent three years in rye barrels and three in Amontillado sherry hogsheads, is bottled at 57.1% and runs to 5,000 bottles at £80.

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Did you know8 hours ago

Torabhaig Distillery on Skye is built of stone taken from Knock Castle next door.

Long a rumour, it is now confirmed: when Torabhaig Distillery compared the stone, the old farm steading it was built in turned out to have been made with stone taken from the castle.

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Did you know4 hours ago

Robert Louis Stevenson, the author of Treasure Island, named Talisker distillery's whisky one of his three 'king o' drinks'.

In a poem of 1880 written in Scots, Stevenson gave his verdict on Scotland's finest drink: the king o' drinks, he declared, was 'Talisker, Isla, or Glenlivet'. The distillery on the shore of Loch Harport on Skye has been quoting him ever since.

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By ferry3 hours agoIsle of SkyeTalisker DistilleryAttractionIsle of SkyeTorabhaig DistilleryAttractionIsle of SkyeIsle of Raasay DistillerySleeps 2Isle of SkyeThe Bar at Talisker DistilleryAttraction

The island distilleries.

Islay, Jura, Skye, Arran, Orkney, Harris: reached by ferry, which is half the day.

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Did you know1 hour ago

The wash stills at Talisker distillery on Skye bend their pipes into a deep U, and the bend may be where the whisky's pepper comes from.

The pipe that carries the vapour away from the top of a still is called the lyne arm. On Talisker's two very tall wash stills it drops into an exaggerated U, with a small purifier pipe at the lowest point that catches the heavier vapours and sends them back into the still to be distilled again. After climbing out of the U, the pipe coils through cold worm tubs, where the vapour turns back to liquid. The whole arrangement may be what gives the mature whisky its pepper.

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