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Did you know20 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.

See Talisker Distillery · Isle of Skye
Did you know20 hours ago

Robert Louis Stevenson named Talisker among the King o' drinks.

In 1880, Robert Louis Stevenson named Talisker in verse among the King o' drinks, alongside Islay and Glenlivet.

See Talisker Distillery · Isle of Skye
Quiz19 hours ago

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

From the magazine19 hours agoThe printed copy of Issue 10Issue 10Spring / Summer 2025

The very first bottle of whisky from Nc'nean, a distillery on the Morvern peninsula, sold for £41,000 at a charity auction.

Annabel Thomas named the distillery she was building on the west coast after Neachneohain, a Gaelic goddess of Scottish folklore, a huntress and fierce protector of nature. In August 2020, after seven years of work, she held the finished whisky at last, and the first 10 bottles were auctioned for five charities close to the team's hearts. As Annabel says, 'We thought we would make around £20,000 for them, but the first bottle alone went for £41,000'. In the end the auction raised £96,000. The organic distillery runs on wood chips from a local forest, bottles its whisky in recycled glass, and is the first distillery in Scotland to be classed as net-zero.

See Nc'nean Distillery · Lochaber
Distillery of the day18 hours ago

Glengoyne Distillery Guided Tour & Whisky Tasting.

Guided tours and tastings at Glengoyne, from a 45-minute tour of the distillery to a five-hour masterclass.

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Did you know18 hours ago

The 3,384 bottles at the Scotch Whisky Experience were gathered over 35 years by one collector, Claive Vidiz.

The collection began in the 1970s, when a business colleague gave him six single malts. Diageo bought the collection in October 2006, and it has stood in these cases on the Royal Mile since May 2009.

See The Scotch Whisky Experience · Edinburgh
The journal17 hours ago

Meet Konrad, owner of The Whisky Island Gallery and Studio

Meet Konrad, owner of The Whisky Island Gallery and Studio Hidden Scotland interviews Konrad, owner of The Whisky Island Gallery and Studio

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Did you know17 hours ago

The Clydeside Distillery's first single malt came out in October 2021.

The distillery on Stobcross Road released its first single malt on 15 October 2021. Called Stobcross, it is a marriage of bourbon and sherry casks, and is poured at the end of the tour.

See The Clydeside Distillery · Glasgow
Did you know16 hours ago

A dram, the small drink of whisky, began as a tiny weight in an apothecary's scales.

The word goes back through Latin to the Greek drakhma, a weight and a silver coin whose name first meant a handful. By the 15th century a dram was a small weight in the apothecary's measures. The fluid dram followed, an eighth of a fluid ounce, and by 1713 the word had come to mean a small drink of liquor. So a measure first weighed out for medicine ended up in a glass.

From the magazine16 hours ago

Bertie's, the whisky bar at The Fife Arms in Braemar, is named after Queen Victoria's eldest son, and its malts are shelved by flavour rather than by region.

The prince was known for his hedonistic ways, and the bar that carries his name is a warm, womb-like room with a dramatic backlit library of bottles. Instead of grouping the malts geographically, by the part of Scotland they come from, Bertie's divides them into four flavour profiles: fragrant, fruity, rich and smoky. Scotland has no shortage of hotels with great whisky bars, and this one sits in a hotel transformed by the designer Russell Sage, who also turned Glenmorangie House into a dazzling wonderland.

Read the full story in Issue 8
New at MacGregor's15 hours ago

MacGregor's at The Whisky Vaults in Oban has been named Whisky Bar of the Year.

The Tweedale Street bar won the title at the Scottish Bar and Pub Awards, and pairs over 375 whiskies with live music most nights and a five-dram tasting told through songs and stories.

Photograph: The Whisky Vaults Hotel on Google MapsRead about it
Quiz15 hours ago

Which of these calls itself the tallest whisky distillery in the world?