Birming-Dram

I love Tobermory!  Everything about this distillery is great. I know it's not producing at the moment as they are renovating  but I have heard nasty rumours that renovations = mothballed. I really, really hope not! I visited Tobermory back in November during my last distillery visiting trip north of Hadrian's Wall. It was a very, very wet day when we set off from our base on Loch Awe to Oban then on the ferry to Mull. Mull is an amazing place...very beautiful, with stunning countryside which looked amazing even in the November rain! We headed straight up to Tobermory as time was limited and it wasn't quite birdwatching weather! After an epic pizza with goat's cheese and haggis at The Mishnish pub (highly recommended) we headed off for our tour! Tobermory distillery is tiny! I can't quite believe how they manage to fit all that kit in there! The distillery has shrunk since its heyday as some of the warehousing was sold off for apartments.  The ma...

I’m back on here again and, as promised, this next blog entry will be all about my recent trip north of the border in search of great drams. Last November in the almost constant rain, I set off up the M6 / A74(M) on my third whisky adventure. Did I venture to Islay? No, that was the year before. How about the easily accessible lowlands? Nope, that was our first trip. How about the legendary Speyside? Too cliché? No, just too bloomin' far! Instead I did a round robin of just about everywhere else. These next blogs will describe my mini adventure to Glengoyne, Oban, Tobermory and the wonderful, wonderful town of Campbeltown! So, off we went one Saturday morning in mid-November, on our way to our base, the lovely and picturesque Portsonachan Hotel on the banks of Loch Awe (more about that later…). We decided we would take a detour on our way up to stop off at a distillery. As we had already visited the wonderful Auchentoshan the next logical place to head for was Glengoyne, ...