Visit the Scotch Whisky Experience in Edinburgh's Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and see the world's largest collection of Scotch whisky, featuring nearly 3384 bottles.
Listen to an audio guide while learning about the process of making, blending, and distilling whisky, regarded as the 'water of life' by enthusiasts.
Enjoy an in-depth experience featuring a private guided tour, an expanded tasting session with additional premium whiskies, and knowledgeable insights from a whisky expert.
Widen your horizons by exploring the five whisky-producing regions and learning about the art of blending.
Opt for the Gold Tour tickets to savour a traditional Scottish meal at the Amber Restaurant, featuring dishes paired with carefully selected whiskies for a full cultural and culinary experience.
About The Scotch Whisky Experience:
The Scotch Whisky Experience in Edinburgh established in 1988, offers an immersive journey into the world of Scotch whisky. Located near Edinburgh Castle, this activity features guided tours showcasing the history, production process, and varieties of Scotch. Highlights include a barrel ride through a replica distillery, tastings of different whisky types, and the impressive Diageo Claive Vidiz Collection, housing nearly 4,000 bottles. This is a must-do activity for whisky enthusiasts.
About the Activity:
How to Reach:
By Car: The Scotch Whisky Experience, Edinburgh is 1.1 miles away from the city centre. It will take 7 mins via the Market St route to reach your destination.
Don't Miss:
1. The Inventors’ Inspiration: It is a blended malt which gives the virtues of whiskeys and even Spanish sherry casks. Once consumed, it makes your mouth filled with rich dark fruits, and chocolate and spice intertwined with vanilla.
2. The Surgeons Ball: It is a blend of pleated highland malt that offers flavour and freshness when drank with smoky swirls and fruit flavours exploding in your mouth.
3. Practitioners Parcel: Peat smoke aromas and flavours of malt and fruit give away a taste of oily-kipper-like smokiness making for a spicily rich and fruity lingering sweetness.
4. Smooth & Sweet: A marriage of Highland and Speyside produces this experience which tastes like caramel, vanilla, and soft spiced oak with a toasty finish.
5. Rich & Spicy: This whiskey blended with Sherry casks brimming with dried fruit character mixed with toffee and melted chocolate offers a very smooth and nutty finish.
1. The Scotch Whisky Experience: A collection of the largest Scotch whiskies in the world which is very close to Edinburgh Castle and can be reached easily. Several different tours go on from here with Scottish food and basic distilling whisky with a taster at the end.
2. Whiski Rooms: With an extensive whisky list of over 300 hundred whiskies, Whiski Room also includes rare and collectable whiskies from all around the world. They offer all-day dining in their restaurant and specialize in fresh Scottish produce from local suppliers.
3. The Abbey Bar: Situated towards the South of Abbey Bar, it’s a perfect spot after a walk where you are welcomed in a Scottish atmosphere with 200 whiskies lined up behind the bar. Participate in their whiskey tastings or treat yourself to a Scottish wheel along with whiskeys.
4. Teuchters Bar: This place is also known as ‘A Room in the West End’ and is tucked away down a small cobbled street in the West End. A favourite among locals serving up affordable and tasty food. It also has 90 single malts lined up with 20 international bottles.
Edinburgh offers one of the best nightlife experiences with lively pubs coming to life with musical beats, youth enjoying, gulping down drinks at the Scotch Whisky Experience and dancing to the night.
Yes, you can get a variety of flavours like The Inventors’ Inspiration, The Surgeons Ball, and the Practitioners Parcel, etc.
Haggish, Scottish shortbread, porridge and bannock along with a Scotch at the Scotch Whisky Experience are the traditional dishes and experiences that you must indulge in Edinburgh at any cost.
1. Wander down the Royal Mile: This busy road hogged with shoppers and cafes in the daytime becomes a party animal by night with restaurants and bars bustling with people. This road starts from the Scottish Parliament and goes until Edinburgh Castle.
2. Participate in a ball at the Camera Obscura: Located at the top of the Royal Mile on Castlehill, this place is sure to leave your mind blown with its optical illusions in multi-coloured circular lights through which you will have to walk. Then, you reach its roof terrace on the sixth floor where superb views of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile and Castle are found.
3. Grassmarket Pub Crawl: Your go-to place for a drink and a dance which is lined up with cafes, shops and markets which are popular amongst locals and guests, alike. Biddy Mulligan’s Irish bar with Scotland’s smallest pub - the Wee Pub where you read the menu with a magnifying glass.
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