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Glengoyne Distillery has launched an
exciting new menu of tours in time for
the busy summer visitor season. Joining
the already highly popular and acclaimed
selection of tours will be Cask Idol –
The Search for the Perfect Dram and A
Century of Whisky.
Cask Idol – The Search for the Perfect
Dram (£70 per person) offers a once in a
lifetime opportunity to become part of
the Glengoyne Selection Panel and help
select the first ever Glengoyne
Distillery Exclusive Single Cask Whisky,
to be bottled in 2011.
Following an in-depth Glengoyne
Distillery tour and a visit to the
legendary Warehouse No. 8, visitors are
guided through Glengoyne’s last three
Single Cask releases learning to nose,
taste and write tasting notes as they
go.
 Visitors then judge three mature samples
drawn from the cask and are asked to
write their own tasting notes for each.
The most popular cask will be announced
in April 2011 and released with one
lucky fan’s name and tasting notes
displayed on the label. Visitors on the
Cask Idol tour will have exclusive first
access to the chosen single cask
bottling when released.
Perfect for enthusiasts of old and rare
whiskies, A Century of Whisky (£150 per
person) includes a tutored tasting of
Glengoyne Distillery’s oldest, most
valuable, and finest Highland Single
Malt: the Glengoyne 40 Years Old, worth
£200 per dram, as well as the
exceptionally rare Isle of Skye 50 Years
Old blended Scotch whisky. These two
unparalleled whiskies, along with the
Glengoyne 10 Years Old, represent a
century of maturation.
The Glengoyne team will bring these
great drams to life, sharing their
distillation, maturation and flavour
profiles – exposing 100 years of hopes
and fears, of wandering legs and golden
tears. Each dram will be tasted in its
own bespoke crystal ‘copita’ glass,
which guests take home as a memento of
the day. This is a truly unique
opportunity to taste rare and expensive,
top quality whiskies. Only 400 bottles
of the Isle of Skye 50 Years Old blended
Scotch Whisky, and 250 crystal decanters
of the Glengoyne 40 Years Old Highland
Single Malt Scotch Whisky were produced,
costing £1,000 and £3,750 respectively.
Stuart Hendry, Brand Heritage Manager
for Glengoyne commented: “At Glengoyne
we make Single Malt Whisky without
cutting corners. We fill Scotland’s
slowest distilled spirit into the
world’s finest casks. These new visits
allow us to really take Glengoyne fans
inside the cask and let them become a
part of the Distillery’s history. This
sort of thing just doesn’t happen at
normal distilleries.”
The new tours join the existing tasting
tours, which start from just £6.50 and
have been heralded as ‘THE Best Whisky
Tour’ by The Sunday Times. Other options
include the Master Class (£100), the
most in depth and comprehensive
distillery tour in Scotland, as well as
the exclusive Master Blender Session
(£30) during which guests learn the dark
art of the Master Blender and create
their very own blend to be bottled and
taken home.
The new Cask Idol and Century of Whisky
Tours are available from 19 April 2010.
The full menu of tours is available all
year round. The Cask Idol tour lasts 2 ½
hours, A Century of Whisky lasts 2
hours. For full details of the tour
menu, visit
www.glengoyne.com
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