The distillery tour planning website has helped whisky lovers rise to that challenge, however, by creating a handy interactive Scotland whisky distillery map. Black pins show distilleries not open ...

The Scotch Whisky Tasting Map contains 15 x 5cl premium and super-premium scotch whisky drams complete with an 80-page ...

The Malt Whisky Trail has more to it than just some of Speyside’s distilleries, but they’re a good place to start, finds Rosalind Erskine.

Deanston even looks different to most distilleries — the red-brick, riverside buildings were in fact an 18th-century cotton mill, before they were converted to whisky-making in 1966.

1. Deanston Distillery, Doune, Perthshire. Small in size, but big on character, Deanston’s unpretentious, experimental attitude has resulted in waxy, honeyed, full-bodied drams with a cult ...

This all ties in with findings from the Scotland Visitor Survey 2023, which showed that visiting a whisky, gin distillery or brewery (26 per cent) was the most popular type of food and drink ...