点评:I hate to say it but this was our least favorite tour of the 7 whisky tours we did while in Scotland - the distillery is great, great grounds, but it just felt "forced" and didn't feel natural at all - it's not just my experience, a person who enjoys whisky regularly, but so did say my wife who was just a great trouper supporting her husband on all these tours :)
It is also worth mentioning that it is definitely not for people with movement limitation - lots of stairs, and if you don't do well with heights... you should probably reconsider this - the reason is that a few times you go on higher floors and the floors have crates that are see-through - the bridges between buildings for me were good, but the floors... not so much :) they do warn you about it in advance so they are perfectly transparent about it - I "survived" but not sure if I would repeat it knowing what I saw, it should be pure fun, not stress so perhaps reconsider your distillery if fear of heights is an issue for you
Probably my favorite part was their gift shop - very colorful, cool gadgets, they are part of Johnnie Walker portfolio so you can buy many other whisky products here as well - there are some smaller Singleton products here as well, through the prices are a bit too expensive in my modest opinion
My biggest "beef" with the company is that they have 3 different "outlets" of their whisky - one for USA, one for Japan, and one for UK/Europe I believe or something like that - so you can't buy this whisky from ORD everywhere else - and yet they all go by the same name - it's just a bizarre marketing strategy that I am simply not a fan of... kind of a shame knowing at the distillery that despite liking their product you can't get it outside of it - and we aren't talking about something rare or super exclusive, just a brand practice...
翻译:我很不情愿这么说,但这却是我们在苏格兰参加的7次威士忌之旅中最不喜欢的一次——酒厂本身很棒,环境也很好,但整个参观过程感觉很“刻意”,一点也不自然。这不仅仅是我个人的感受,我平时很喜欢喝威士忌,我的妻子也这么觉得,她真是个很棒的陪护,陪我参加了所有这些参观活动 :)
另外值得一提的是,这个酒厂绝对不适合行动不便的人——有很多楼梯,如果你恐高……最好还是重新考虑一下。原因是,有好几次你要去到比较高的楼层,而这些楼层的地板上摆放着透明的箱子——对我来说,连接各个建筑的桥梁还好,但那些地板……就有点吓人了 :) 他们会提前提醒你,所以他们在这方面很坦诚——我“挺过来了”,但如果让我重新考虑,看到那些东西,我不确定是否还会再去。参观威士忌应该是纯粹的乐趣,而不是压力,所以如果你恐高的话,或许应该重新考虑一下是否要去这家酒厂。给你提个醒
我最喜欢的部分大概就是他们的礼品店了——色彩缤纷,各种酷炫的小玩意儿应有尽有。他们是尊尼获加旗下的品牌,所以你也可以在这里买到很多其他威士忌产品——这里也有一些小批量的单一麦芽威士忌,不过恕我直言,价格有点贵。
我对这家公司最大的不满是,他们的威士忌有三个不同的销售渠道——一个面向美国,一个面向日本,还有一个面向英国/欧洲(大概是这样)——所以你没办法在其他地方买到ORD的这款威士忌——但它们用的却是同一个名字——这简直是一种莫名其妙的营销策略,我实在无法接受……在酒厂里得知自己喜欢他们的产品却买不到,真是有点可惜——而且我们说的也不是什么稀有或超级稀有的威士忌,只是品牌的一种惯用伎俩而已……