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Tuesday, 27 March 2018

Whisky landscape

River Spey


Fast flowing Spey
The whisky famous River Spey at Newtonmore. This is well upstream from the clutch of world famous Speyside distilleries. The sole distillery upstream of here is Dalwhinnie, Scotland’s highest distillery but it is not on the Spey rather it is on the River Trium, a tributary of the Spey that joins the mother river just to the south of Newtonmore.
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Dalwhinnie Distillery (above and below) is one of Diageo’s classic malts. This gentle spirit belies the wild landscape that surrounds the distillery.
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Dalwhinnie
Looking down on Dalwhinnie from above Loch Ericht (see photo below)
The white building in the distance is the distillery
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The Cairngorms viewed from Aviemore
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Further downstream between Aviemore and Granton-on-Spey with the Cairngorm mountains in the background. The majority of the distilleries are closer to the sea…… dram deferred!







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