Tour
Auchenree Distillery · Speyside
The Still House Tour
4.8(187)1 hr 15 min14 seats
Mash tun to spirit safe on a working floor, finishing with new make.
£25 / guest
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Moray, GB
Speyside
More working distilleries than anywhere on earth, in a river valley you can drive in a morning.
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The short version
What to expect
The Spey runs cold and fast off the Cairngorms, and the reason half of Scotland's malt whisky is made within sight of it is not romance — it is water, barley and a long history of doing this out of sight of the excise man.
The distilleries here are close enough together that a day can hold three, which is two more than you should taste properly. Take a driver. Every producer on this page pours cask strength, and they will tell you when to add water.
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Our picks in Speyside
Tour
Glen Tarrach · Speyside
Malting Floor Morning
4.9(44)2 hr8 seats
Turn the barley with a shiel, then taste what floor malting does.
£45 / guest
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Corriemuir Cooperage · Speyside
Wood Makes the Whisky
4.9(58)1 hr 30 min8 seats
The same spirit from four different casks — the clearest lesson we can pour.
£55 / guest
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3 producers
Everyone we have visited and approved in Speyside.
Distillery · Speyside
Auchenree Distillery
Four copper stills, direct-fired, and a mash bill that has not changed since 1897.
2 experiences · Craigellachie, Moray
Distillery · Speyside
Glen Tarrach
A farm distillery malting its own barley, six hundred casks and no hurry.
2 experiences · Aberlour, Moray
Producer · Speyside
Corriemuir Cooperage
A working cooperage repairing casks for the valley — and a warehouse to taste from.
2 experiences · Rothes, Moray