Sindry Piccies o' Scotland! pt 2 Dufftown & Distilleries!

[cessna152towser]

Excellent pics again, Robertson. Dufftown is one of the must do's for the kilt and whisky enthusiast; we had a holiday there about fifteen years ago when I still drank whisky and I sampled many Speyside Malts. There always seemed to be plenty of kilts to be seen on the streets of Dufftown, probably distillery guides out and about during their breaks between duties.

[Macman]

Pipe bands and distilleries - that gets my heart going! Thanks for the pictures. When we visited The Glenlivet distillery seven years ago, it flew the Canadian flag because it was owned by Seagrams. The tour guide was from Yorkshire, and you could sure tell.
And by the way, who is that young fella with Em in the picture at The Macallan distillery ?

[Pour1Malt]

P1M,

That seems like a very poor marketing choice. What could be more Scottish than visiting a Whisky distillery in Scotland? Hopefully they have cleaned the place up and have better guides nowdays.

I love all the pictures of the massed pipe bands!

Cheers

Panache

aye... we had just been a' Glenfiddich were a' the tour guides wore kilts...

an the tours were available in 20 some languages!

it wuz like gaeing tae Champange in France an havin' a Scot tour guide....

jus' weird!

[O'Neille]

Very nice pictures. Thanks. There was a short filler on NBC on Saturday talking about the resurgence of Scotch drinking and I think that same cooperage was shown. O'Neille

[Hamish]

Back in 1999, I spent a long weekend of Scottish Country Dancing at a large Country House in the Glen of Rothes, and visited Dufftown twice. It is a nice little town - with an excellent kiltmaker on Fife Street: Ann Higgins ( http://www.kiltonline.co.uk ). I did manage a tour of the Glen Grant distillery at Rothes, but no photos were permitted, and all I remember clearly of that visit were the fantastic gardens that surrounded the distillery buildings. They had a very modern set-up there and I believe I was told that the entire distillery was run by only about six men - and a sophisticated computer! The bottling was done somewhere outside Edinburgh. That weekend, eight years ago, was my very first visit to Scotland! Aye, strange but true!

[TimC]

Glenlivet and McCallan!? I would be able to die a happy man after such a day

[Tartan Hiker]

Great pics as always, and it's great to see so many young people in the pipe bands.

[Pour1Malt]

... That weekend, eight years ago, was my very first visit to Scotland! Aye, strange but true!

ainly 8 years ago?

that is surprisin'!

[Pour1Malt]

see maire o' Scotland here-


Kilted Scottish Holiday?

[terraedwin]

Thanks for sharing the beautiful pictures.