This day we start our visits in BOWMORE.
As we stay a little farther on the street, Bowmore is really a home-match.
As we arrive, one thing is obvious, this is a very visitor-minded distiller.
It has a very modern visitor centre and is so far the most proper distillery we visited.
On the tour, we discovered that bowmore also still uses their malting floor.
We like.
After the tour, we did the very exclusive warehouse tasting.
A very nice line-up (starting with the pure spirit) was awaiting us in the most refined envirement.
After the tasting, every bottle they had in the bar ( up to 18years) was free to taste.
As the time was passing by way to fast, we needed to hurry up to visit Laphroig.
In Laphroig we did not do the tour but only the special tasting.
We sat there in a very quiet environment in the sofa's en had a tasting with some small dishes.
Laphroig has a very specific taste and we did like it a lot.
In the shop we really got spoiled, they kept giving presents as little bottles and glasses.
And as there were already two persons of us who had a friends of laphroig pass (now we all own one) they became owner of one square foot of Laphroig property. Next time the rest of us comes in the distillery, they become co-owner also.
see here a sofa with a view.
The rest of the days we will do only one distillery each day.
After the tasting we visited KILDALTON, one of the oldest Celtic crosses known on Scotland.700 AD.
This site is there from
We are going to the Isle of JURA tomorrow.
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