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Clynelish Distillery is one of the most northerly distilleries
in Scotland, located just outside the village of Brora 59 miles
from Inverness on the A9.
Hit the Highland trail and join Scotland's great gold rush. Many
hundreds did in the 1880s and gold is still to be found in the local
streams.
Why not discover Scotland's liquid gold at Clynelish Distillery......pure
water from mountain springs that run over veins of gold on its way
to the distillery. Now Clynelish provides the malt whisky at the
heart of the Johnnie Walker Gold Label blend.
An open invitation...
March to October
Monday to Friday 09.30 to 16.30
November to February
Tuesday to Thursday 09.30 to 16.00
(last tour 15.30) or by appointment
On occasion when the distillery is not in production, visitors
are still welcome and tours are provided. There is an adult charge,
which includes a discount voucher, redeemable at the distillery
towards the purchase of a 70cl bottle of malt whisky. Children under
8 years are welcome but not encouraged to take the tour.
Brora, Sutherland, Scotland
Tel: +44 (0)1408 623000
Fax: +44(0)1408 623004
E-mail: Liz.Miller@udv.com
The biggest selling single malt in Scotland but from a small company.
Glenmorangie (the Scots pronounce it to rhyme with "orangey")
made an early start: It has been available as a single since the
1920s.
The distillery is at Tain is in the county of Ross-shire, on the
Morangie burn and overlooking the Dornoch Firth. The site housed
a meal mill from the 1550s and a brewery from the 1820s, not to
mention illicit distillation which went on in the area for most
of that time. Certainly an estate inventory in 1703 mentions an
'aquavitie Pott with it ffleake and stand'.
The water comes from the Tarlogie springs about a mile from the
distillery, flows though lime and sandstone and is hard. Glenmorangie
felt sufficiently strongly about protecting their interests in the
spring that they bought up the square mile or so of land surrounding
it, an area rich in heather and clover. Lightly-peated malt is used,
and a house yeast. The stills are the tallest in Scotland at 5.13m/16ft
10.25in. A very narrow cut is taken.
All of Glenmorangie's output is now bottled as a single malt and
the distillery is unusual in this respect. It has been owned since
1918 by Macdonald and Muir who are also the proprietors of Glen
Moray .
Glenmorangie Distillery Coy, Tain, Ross-shire
Tel: +44 (0) 1862 892477
Web: www.glenmorangie.com
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