Mactracker review12/28/2023 The eastern coastline north of Inverness is a hotbed of whisky individuality. Glengoyne is known for its powerful style of whisky Moving north… ![]() The long road to its lonely location at Glenbeg makes Ardnamurchan’s new visitor centre an unlikely bet for passing trade, but the other two Western Highland distilleries enjoy more efficient transport links: the maritime fruitiness of Oban and the muscly spiciness of Ben Nevis. The serpentine curves of Scotland’s Hebridean coast are now something of a wasteland for distilleries, but a newcomer is helping to change that: Adelphi’s Ardnamurchan Distillery is the most westerly on the mainland and is set to produce a mix of peated and unpeated spirit. ![]() The few distilleries remaining within easy reach of Glasgow and Stirling illustrate this diversity in microcosm: from grassily intense, deceptively powerful Glengoyne to multi-faceted, iconoclastic Loch Lomond and from the evolving character of ex-mill Deanston to the nuttily fragrant resurrected plant at Tullibardine. The simplest way to sub-divide the stylistically disparate 30 surviving distilleries in the Highlands is by geography: Southern for those nearest the Highland Line Western for the few scattered along the Hebridean coast Northern for the eastern coastline above Inverness Eastern along the coast either side of Aberdeen and Central for the remaining cluster, mostly in Perthshire. Highland whisky is the most stylistically diverse in Scotland All points of the compass From light and grassy to heavily sherried – these are whiskies that refuse to be pigeonholed. To call Highland single malts diverse is an understatement: stretching from the Glasgow commuter belt to the Pentland Firth and from the fertile east coast to the rugged west, this vast area boasts a rich variety of distillery styles.
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