{"id":1131,"date":"2017-05-16T23:17:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T23:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dramboree.co.uk\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2023-08-27T07:27:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T07:27:50","slug":"2017s-distillery-visit-grapes-rothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dramboree.co.uk\/2017\/05\/2017s-distillery-visit-grapes-rothes\/","title":{"rendered":"2017’s Distillery Visit – The Grapes of Rothes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Forget Campbeltown, disregard Islay and don’t even think about bloody Dufftown: Rothes is the undisputed capital of Scotch Whisky distilling.\u00a0 Any of the four distilleries housed in Rothes – often referred\u00a0to as ‘The Malt Whisky Capital of Scotland’ – would all make a superlative visit.\u00a0 And we’ve managed to book a unique trip round one of these very distilleries!<\/p>\n
Of the four ‘Giants of Rothes’;\u00a0Glen Grant, Glenrothes, Speyburn and Glen Spey, only Glen Grant is open to the public for tours, but we’ve secured special permission to take the Dramboree group behind the scenes at Glen[mumble, mumble].\u00a0 The distillery visit will feature a\u00a0tour and tasting, and we may even manage to unearth a dram of Caperdonich\u00a0(Rothes’ answer to Port Ellen) to sample\u00a0also.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, Inver House\u00a0were unable to facilitate a tour around the elusive Speyburn (only open\u00a0to those who’ve found the golden ticket under a bottle label), however the world’s foremost Speyburn collector & expert Jon Beach will be hosting “The Fiddler’s Inn (unofficial)\u00a0Speyburn Picnic” at lunch time to compensate.<\/p>\n
We’ve had some\u00a0truly phenomenal distillery trips at Dramboree over the past years, but we think the Rothes Odyssey will most certainly measure up, if not exceed expectations.<\/p>\n