I thought taking a two-day tour to Loch Ness and the Highlands would prove to be twice as good as last week’s one-day tour, but I wasn’t as impressed with the tour this time. Don’t mistake me, I loved seeing both sights again, but the tour itself was lacking. For one thing the tour guide had the personality of a flaccid noodle; whereas the other tours I’ve taken the guides have been chock full…
Discover Dalwhinnie 15: The Smooth, Sensational Scotch You Need to Try! - Whiskey Review
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IntroductionDalwhinnie 15 Year Old Single Highland Malt Scotch Whisky holds a special place in the hearts of many whisky enthusiasts. Nestled in the picturesque Scottish Highlands, the Dalwhinnie distillery has been crafting exceptional whiskies for well over a century. The Dalwhinnie 15 expression, aged to perfection for 15 years, embodies the essence of Highland…
Review by: The Muskox
My whisky MO has always been to taste as wide a variety of flavours as possible. As such, my limited budget has always gone more towards samples and bottle splits instead of full bottles for myself. The bottles I get for myself (or that are left over from my own splits) tend to empty very, very slowly. I’ve currently got 26 on the shelf— oh wait, make that 25, since I…
Marking a 125-year milestone, The Dalwhinnie Distillery, set amongst rolling Scottish landscape on the eastern edge of the Cairngorm National Park, has announced the launch of an exclusive limited release 17-year-old bottling.
The new liquid and bottle design is a celebration of the incredible journey, pioneering spirit anddedication to quality which whisky lovers have come to expect from the…
The landscape here is among the most ancient in Britain and is a designated area of conservation. Although the Monadhliath mountains have always been a wilderness, a route through them has existed for hundreds of years and the area is steeped in historical importance.
The Corrieyairack Pass was known to travellers in the 12th century as being a short route through the mountains for anyone heading to the far north.
From the 15th century, a cattle drover's route from the Isle of Skye towards Stirling was in use and James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose had led his men into battle along this way in 1645.
In the Summer of 1731, the English troops under the command of General Wade, completed a gravel and rock road running from the town of Dalwhinnie and the English troop's barracks at Ruthven westwards, crossing the River Spey near Garvamore and over the Corrieyairack pass and down to Fort Augustus at Loch Ness.
According to legend, it was in this area that the last wolf in Scotland was killed in 1743 and that the Jacobite leader, Charles Edward Stuart (aka Bonnie Prince Charlie) passed this way in 1745 with his fledgling army on the way to Edinburgh, England and eventual exile in France.
If I ever get rich I'm building a castle in the middle of the New Mexican desert. Maybe build a town too and of course host larp events every so often. At the very least try to attract one of the local Amtgard Kingdoms to host their annual major event there.
I've been to Dalwhinnie Fields in Alabama, and Eastwind Castle in South Carolina for Dagorhir and Belegarth events, and they're such cool sites. When I move full time to New Mexico I'm going to miss both of them dearly. New Mexico needs a larp site like that so badly...
On March 17th 1746, the Jacobite forces of clans Murray and MacPherson, attacked Campbell Militia Hanoverian troops around Blair Castle.
Before daybreak Jacobite forces, commanded by Lord George Murray, captured over 30 Hanoverian military posts between Dalwhinnie and Blair Castle. The Jacobites took over 300 prisoners and suffered no casualties.
Lord George Murray then commenced a siege of his ancestral home, Blair Castle. The siege was abandoned two weeks later, just before a relieving Hanoverian force arrived under the Earl of Crawford.Making it the last place to be besieged in the British Isles.
Again to show that the Jacobites were not only fighting the English I will point out that Blair Castle was General Murray's ancestral home and held by Murray his brother the then Duke of Atholl, James Murray so it was very much a family affair with one supporting Prince Charles and the other the Hanoverian government. With that the clan was divided between followers of each brother.
It is said when Lord George arrived at Blair he had ‘pipes playing and colours flying’.
I decided to take a whisky distillery tour, not because I’m a whisky drinker—I’m not really—but because I thought I should see how the national drink of Scotland is made. I’ve spent my entire stay living next to the Holyrood gin distillery—somedays, you could really smell the mash—but I wasn’t that interested in visiting. But whisky intrigued me, so I signed up for Rabbie’s three-day tour of…
Dalwhinnie, located in the Scottish Highlands, is one of the highest distilleries in Scotland. The Distillers Edition is a limited series of bottlings characterised by the elegance and smoothness typical of Dalwhinnie. This edition presents connoisseurs with a special version of this Highland whisky.