Good WHisky?

Jan 18, 2007 24 Replies

You are slightly confused about The Dark Isle. Just south of Dalmore lies The BLACK Isle. Which is not an Island at all. A great place to watch North Sea Dolphins, The Black Isle has beautiful villages such as Cromarty where I stayed a few months ago in a nice bed and breakfast. They also boast a micro brewery called The Black Isle Brewery which I also visited and tasted alll of there beers. On the way from The Black Isle to Dalmore you can visit the most wonderful pottery in Scotland IMO. Its called Anta and has hand crafted very organic and hand painted crockery. The Dark Isle is in actual fact, Benbecula which is a Hebridean Island on Scotlands west coast. I am thinking you maybe meant Black Isle. Allthough I have never heard of Dalmore Dark Isle or Black Isle. The distillery of Dalmore is just outside the Black Isle and maybe its sometimes referrred to as such.

Peace,

Jock

Hmmm. I just looked the price list up on whiskyworld.nl, and Dalmore Black Isle is available.

7923 1,000 40,0 DIST HIGHL DALMORE 12 Y BLACK ISLE LTR 40% 12 33,89

Not a bad price for a liter I think.

Peace,

Jock

(snipped....)

Ah but you're right in the distinction between Black and Dark Isle.

All this just goes to show how much I'm missing Scotland. Our 9th trip was "way back' in 2004. Time to go again, methinks.

ChEAr$, Harlan Lunsford

I go 3 to 4 times a year. Ryanair does round trips from Dusseldorf Weeze ( only 40 minutes drive from my house inThe Netherlands) to Glasgow Prestwick for €30. Our band are playing our regular gig at new years eve in a hotel at Loch Tay this year. Then I go back in March for the whisky tour with Serenity Scotland. I have guided tours for Serenity Scotland before, but always based in Craigellachie. This time it will be a combination of Islay and Speyside. Staying at Port Charlotte in Islay and then in Aberlour in Speyside. I am really looking forward to that one.

Peace,

Jock

I seem to remember last year your planning to play new year's eve in Scotland. The area around Loch Tay is one of my favorite places, viz the town of Killin. Also hiking up the slopes of Lawers.

Anyway, this trip maybe you'll find a bottle of Dark Isle and take it back with ye.

For us (wife and I) to fly to Scotland and back usually costs somewhere around 999$ on Delta Airlines from Atlanta.

ChEAr$, Harlan Lunsford

(If the Boston Red Sox are winning in about seventh inning tonight, I'll be drinking plenty of Dewars on the Rocks. However if the Rockies win, it's a special evening with Balvenie Doublewood; straight!

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