点评:Visiting Scotland and not visiting a scotch distillery, and visiting Orkney without visiting the famous Highland Park Distillery? :)
We did enjoy the tour (we did the Welcome Experience), we did enjoy all of them really out of 7 we de did but I have to say I was bombed out when we came here and there were was no barley on the floors :( it was one of the things I finally wanted to see as not too many of the places around Scotland still do it this way. The location is pretty unique to be honest as it's at the very end of a fairly residential neighborhood, on a hill.
You start with a sample, and then end up with 2 more at the very end - you get to keep the glasses. The gift shop is fairly modest, if you are looking for something smaller to "take with you" there is one mini version in a cool "case" - but for 65 USD you may as well get yourself a nice bottle of whisky if that's too much for a souvenir
They had some whisky ice cream collaboration during our April visit - the Orkney Ice Cream is amazing already so add whisky to it and make it even better :)
It is worth mentioning, they are one of the 3 companies with the same ownership together with Macallan - something I have learned on the spot and made perfect sense to me as this is in a way the smoky whisky answer to the non-smoky Macallan, both aged in sherry casks
翻译:去苏格兰旅游却不去参观苏格兰威士忌酒厂,去奥克尼群岛旅游却不去参观著名的高原骑士酒厂? :)
我们确实很享受这次参观(我们参加的是欢迎体验),实际上,我们参加的7个项目中,每个都很喜欢。不过说实话,我们来的时候发现地上没有大麦,我真是太失望了 :( 这是我一直以来最想体验的,因为苏格兰现在很少有地方还保留这种做法了。说实话,这里的位置相当独特,它位于一个居民区尽头的小山坡上。
参观开始时你会品尝一种,最后还能再品尝两种——而且酒杯可以带走。礼品店比较简朴,如果你想买点小东西“带走”,那里有一个装在精美“盒子”里的迷你版——不过65美元的价格,如果你觉得买个纪念品太贵,还不如直接买瓶好威士忌。
我们四月份去的时候,他们推出了威士忌冰淇淋——奥克尼冰淇淋本身就很棒,再加上威士忌,简直更美味了 :)
值得一去值得一提的是,他们是与麦卡伦同属一家公司的三家企业之一——这一点我当场了解到,而且对我来说完全合情合理,因为从某种意义上说,这款酒是烟熏威士忌版的麦卡伦(非烟熏威士忌),两者都在雪莉酒桶中陈酿。