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

**Pour1Malt** · 12th March 07, 06:29 AM

Emma an ai stayed in Dufftown a few days... (many years ago...)

we were there tae see distilleries...

it is in the heart o' the Speyside country...

Dufftown ca's itsel "The Town Built On Seven Stills"...

the Speyside region contains a' least half o' the distilleries in Scotland....

we started wi' Glenfiddich....

ai posted the virtual tour o' Glenfiddich Distillery & Balvenie Castle in the Pub...

**Pour1Malt** · 12th March 07, 06:31 AM

we then went tae Glenfarclas Distillery...

**Pour1Malt** · 12th March 07, 06:35 AM

then oan tae The Glenlivet Distillery...

they wuidnae allow piccies oan the tour...

maybe because the place wuz quite worn oot and ill kept...

we alsa had oor worst tour there.... Glenlivet had just been bought by Pernod...

an they replaced a' the Scots wi' French employees....

oor tour guide cuid barely speak English...

**Pour1Malt** · 12th March 07, 06:36 AM

Em havin' a wee dram befair the tour...

**Pour1Malt** · 12th March 07, 06:37 AM

ai snuck three "illegal" piccies inside....

this is the best yin...

Glenlivet sleeping...

**Pour1Malt** · 12th March 07, 06:38 AM

we alsa did Macallan Distillery...

they were closed fur renovations....

this is Em an ai in the Macallan giftshop....

wi' oor complimentary drams....

**Panache** · 12th March 07, 09:40 AM

Originally Posted by Pour1Malt

then oan tae The Glenlivet Distillery...

...we alsa had oor worst tour there.... Glenlivet had just been bought by Pernod...

an they replaced a' the Scots wi' French employees....

oor tour guide cuid barely speak English...

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

**Macman** · 12th March 07, 09:51 AM

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

?

**Hamish** · 12th March 07, 11:04 AM

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!

**Pour1Malt** · 12th March 07, 10:44 AM

Originally Posted by Panache

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!