点评:Booked a visit to Tomintoul Distillery whilst on my Aberdeenshire road trip earlier this month. The tours need to be booked in advance as number of tours and visitors on any one tour are limited, which, in my opinion, makes a visit here that bit more special.
The tour guide was very knowledgeable and spoke passionately about the whisky distilled here. I'm sorry I forgot his name, but he did speak in great depth about the whole whisky production process at Tomintoul which I found interesting and informative.
As I was driving, I couldn't taste the finished product there and then, but joined in by placing my samples of 3 x whiskies in their own little bottles to take away and enjoy later that evening. (Samples were of Seirdh (pron. "sherry"), the 16 yo and Old Ballantruan).
Promised I'd be back to take home a bottle and I duly returned to Tomintoul on the Monday and left with a bottle and a half of the "gentle dram".
Well worth a visit!
翻译:本月初,我在阿伯丁郡自驾游期间预订了托明托尔酒厂的参观行程。由于每次行程的人数和游客数量都有限,所以需要提前预订,但在我看来,正是这一点让这次参观更加特别。
导游知识渊博,热情洋溢地讲解着这里酿造的威士忌。抱歉,我忘了他的名字,但他确实深入讲解了托明托尔威士忌的整个生产过程,我觉得这很有趣也很有启发性。
由于当时开车,我没能当场品尝成品,不过我还是加入了他们的行列,把三瓶威士忌样品分别装在各自的小瓶子里带走,准备当晚晚些时候享用。(样品分别是Seirdh(雪利酒的缩写)、16年陈酿和Old Ballantruan)。
我答应过我会再回来带一瓶回家,于是周一我准时回到了托明托尔,带回了一瓶半的“温和威士忌”。
非常值得一游!